How Much Effort Are You Willing to Make?

Let me ask you a few questions: How much do you care about your next job? How much do you want it to be the right fit? How important is your career?

If the answers are (a) "a lot" (b) "a lot" and (c) "very," let me ask you another question: How much effort are you willing to put into your personal marketing and your job search?

I am always amazed when the answer to that question is "not much."

I just refunded a fee because the client felt that our self-assessment worksheets were too much work. She wrote "if I had time to fill out all that information, I'd have time to write my resume myself."

Now time is not the only thing stopping her from writing a resume as good as the one I can write for her, but I didn't argue and that's not my point in writing this post.

Our clients complete a comprehensive self-assessment questionnaire before we write their resume. It's a lot of work and I make no bones about that before they sign up with us. It's important work. No, it's ESSENTIAL work. Because I guarantee our resumes - a full 100% results guarantee. I can do that because I know that if you truly understand your own value proposition and if you can articulate it clearly, not only on a resume, but in person during interviews, you will be successful. But if a client isn't willing to spend a few hours preparing herself for her search, how can I guarantee success?

Job search is like anything else in life. you get out of it what you put in. When you hire people to help you, you are leveraging their expertise - not taking yourself out of the process.

Cross-posted at the Blue Sky Blog

Comments

[JibberJobber_Guy]

Amen! One thing I've found as I've promoted JibberJobber to job seekers is that many aren't taking the time to do what I consider (and what experts say through their articles) the basics - keeping track of key information to manage your career. There are a lot of folks that use JibberJobber for this, and have done so consistently - these are the types of people that I'd want to hire (and why I'm getting job leads for JibberJobber users regularly) - they are proving that they are going to do what it takes and use more sophisticated tools to get the job done.

Having said that, I still meet dozens and dozens and dozens of people face to face that don't ever get a free account -- they are proving, as you say in your post, that they aren't willing to put the work into their own career. I wonder who will? Perhaps the guy that beats them in the interview!