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How to Get to the Next Level
If you’re having a hard time finding a job, start thinking about the
qualities the winners have and compare those to your approach. You might need
make some changes. If you have a learning style that’s leaving you in a dead
end, try becoming more active. Play with the computer, try out
new software and hardware. Never be concerned about breaking the
computer. You’re not a true IT Professional until you’ve destroyed a 100
operating system installations, and continuously have to fend off a braying
spouse telling you its 3:00 AM and its time to go to bed, just when you’re
about to make that key breakthrough which will repair everything you’ve broken
in the last 48 hours.
If its your attitude, then its time to get an adjustment. Talk to your
trusted friends and family members and see what they’ve noticed. Become aware
of the times you might unconsciously sabotage yourself with failure producing
thoughts and actions. Remember the path to enlightenment begins with awareness,
and ends with action. Write down an action plan that allows you to quash those
self-defeating behaviors and replaces them with success oriented ones.
Finally, if you think you’ve got the Winner’s Edge, and still can’t
find a job, you might have to work on your job acquisition methodology. The
times I’ve heard the phase “I put my resume up on all the web sites and I
still don’t get any calls” is TNTC (to numerous to count). A resume on a
website is not a baseball diamond. The “build it and they well come”
approach doesn’t cut it in this job market. You have to become an
expert at the other kind of networking, your social network.
The good news is that anyone committed to change will accomplish their goals.
So, if you’re not where you want to be, take some time and get the Winner’s
Edge.
