“Below are my top tips to get you through this. These have worked for me and supercharged my career. “Challenge yourself to **reach out to 5 of your most interesting contacts each week**, set up meetings and see what opportunities come out of doing something different. You will be surprised by the things you learn and the wealth of possibilities out there. “Proactivity compose and **send out 10 speculative emails to the HR department** and decision makers in companies that pique your interest each week. “**Get an executive coach**, someone who will challenge your current story and advance how you represent your skills, experience and grow confidence in your abilities. Getting a coach can help you to see things differently and elevate both your mindset and how you view the trajectory of your career no end. “**Start a blog** in an area that you intend to own as your brand, then post it to LinkedIn, build up an audience and you will find that, over time, you become associated with the topic that you are promoting, and even know for it. Building your brand is as much about what you say as how you share what you know. “**Take a new course**. By investing in yourself through an online or in-person course you give yourself a new lease of life and inject and refine your skills, giving you increased confidence and new networks, connections, ideas and a refreshing vitally that will transfer into your interviews. Employers love to see people who are consistently pushing themselves to grow. The course doesn’t have to be related to the job you are applying for, it could be something like photography, website design or wakeboarding. What is impressive is that you aren’t settling for the status quo and you have a learning mindset. The new wave of energy that you will get from learning or developing a new skill will show through, and this is the type of energy that employers and people, in general, are drawn to. So, go out there and shine. Now is your time to invest in yourself. Plus, you never know who you’ll meet or what it might lead to. If it was possible, I would do (x)… One way to increase your resourcefulness around job hunting is to think in terms of possibilities (and this is also applicable in multiple life scenarios). For example, if you knew the VP of Sales for Google you would make contact with them, or if you had a million dollars you would take a sabbatical and travel for a few months to broaden your horizons whilst applying for jobs. The purpose of thinking in this way is to distance yourself from fixed mindset thinking and open up the possibilities around you. In this way, you can see what you are most attracted to and what excites you beyond your wildest dreams. It then becomes clearer which path to follow. Part of job hunting is reducing the anxiety, dread and frustration that comes with not having a job, or wanting to be in a different job. Therefore, it is your mission to stay on the positive side of that battle by focusing on the abundance of possibility around you… ([Location 4773](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07WPDZQ9B&location=4773))” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[coaching]] , [[recruitment]] , [[marketing]] , [[branding]] , [[growth-mindset]] **Source** -- [[202407230921 - B - Be the Lion]]