Each day is a day closer to landing your new job.....that's something we all need to remember. For the truly morbid among you, I know, it's another day closer to death---get over it.
I was a power networking day today: CareerConnections in the morning, outplacement counselor after lunch, meeting with other Dallas ASTD Officers at dinner. Everyone I met knows I'm looking for work, and I'm about at the point of having my marketing materials ready (resume, business card, "elevator speech," etc.)
Though I've had outplacement training before, and have had the misfortune (?) of having to look for work about every 3-4 years, I got a great outline of what you should do when you first find yourself out of work from CareerConnections (thanks Lisa!):
1) Get a professional email account (not hotkitten@blahblah.com)
2) Get business cards made--- Vistaprint.com seems like the hot place right now, but I made up my own, and my outplacement counselor says they look sharp (4 years at Kinko's and married to a graphic artist helps)
3) Develop a strong resume (CareerConnections has a Word template of what they call the "Million Dollar resume."
4) Develop and practice your 30-second commercial and your 2 minute verbal resume
5) Develop and practice your 30-minute infomercial (informational interview)
6) Develop your targeted list of companies (minimum of 25 companies)
7) Contact your state unemployment office for unemployment benefits
8) Get connected -- join various networking groups
More can be found at www.careerconnections.org
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