3FE: Lock The Job – If You Are Jobless The Job Search Is Your Job

It’s Monday morning and you have no desire to get up and continue the grind, the search, the look for something that has eluded you for almost four years.  You are not lazy.  You are not a quitter.  You are just incredibly, so incredibly tired.  You are tired of looking for a job.

It is always darkest before the dawn.

This is not a trite statement, especially in light of the changing economic environment. Corporations have squeezed incredible amounts of efficiency out of their employees.  Technology has allowed companies to increase profit margins without increasing payrolls. Globalization has allowed corporations to leverage efficiencies by using workers from all corners of the globe.  However, innovation is burgeoning and demand has increased.

Innovation and demand are the only two factors that create jobs.  That’s it.  That’s all.  All other factors are sub-variables of innovation and demand, and at this point in time job creators cannot continue to leverage their current work forces and manage to keep pace.  In essence, they are hiring.

So now is not the time to quit.  No matter what morning it is you must arise from bed ready to proceed with the job you have.  And if you are unemployed the critical point you must internalize and understand without equivocation is that you have a job.  Your current job is the job of looking for gainful employment that pays the bills, satisfies your desires within the confines of the best that is available, and offers you the opportunity to be fulfilled.

You may have been serious about the search for employment.  Or, maybe you have not taken it as seriously as you should.  No matter what has been, now is the time for you to make a change, to view what is before you with the seriousness it requires.  If you are jobless the job search is your job.

Apply the power of critical thinking to the job search and see yourself become successful.  I would ask that you use 3FE, the tool for motivational empowerment in order to harness everyday critical thinking skills in your effort to find a job.  3FE is Find, Focus, establish the Fundamentals, and Execute.  Use this tool in order to identify your path forward every morning.  Use this tool to remain positive and elevated as your pursue your goal along the path you have chosen.

Find the job opportunities for the week, or the day.  Identify which jobs you are going to pursue, which companies you want to place in the crosshairs.  Who are your targets?  Identify them, write them down, consider them deeply, and move aggressively into the next phase of 3FE. 

Focus on the companies you’ve identified.  Why have you chosen these companies?  What do they have to offer?  Who do you know or who can you rely on to give you the inside track on these companies?  Remember, build a network, leverage a network, create an opportunity.   When will you approach these companies, when will you be prepared to go on the interview, what will you do to be prepared for the interview, when will you schedule the interview?  Put the tasks on your calendar.

Now, you’re establishing your Fundamental plan.  You have dates for the tasks that prepare you.  You have tasks that help you gather your information about the companies you seek to engage.  You have a time and action plan for your interviews, and you have given earnest thought about how you will present yourself in the interviews.  In fact, you have given the effort a great deal of thought and you have pursued the 3FE: Lock The Job approach to pursuing the job and you have re-branded yourself appropriately.

Your plan is clear.  You have prepared your approach.  You have utilized the 3FE: Red Resume treatment, and your resume is appropriately colorful.  You have practiced you elevator and anti-elevator speech.  You have prepared your artifacts for review.  You even have developed www.I_Am_Hot.com to highlight what skills you bring to the job.  You are ready.  You can, and you will Execute. 

My mission in this article and in my interaction with all who seek me out is to remain committed to empowering each and every last one of you.  To do what I can to help you clarify the task, achieve the objective, and lock the job.  Remember, if you are looking for a job, the job search is your job … and if you conduct the search with the right frame of mind, you will indeed Lock The Job.  This, I promise you.   

The Aspiring Critical Thinker,

D.S. Brown