In the midst of searching for employment, I simply ask the question, “job, where art thou?”.
A passionate, motivated and optimistic job search adventurer, I’m perusing online job boards daily, volunteering at an organization to assist newcomers to Canada, networking with career professionals, reading books and listening to Ted Talks on all things career, and updating my LinkedIn account. Committed to customizing my resume and cover letter for every application, and completing countless numbers of profiles for company portals, I need reassurance that my skills and experiences are good enough for the positions to which I am applying. This is a very vulnerable time in our lives. And scary. Yes?
Last night I watched the story book version of “The Little Engine That Could” on YouTube. This classic story reminds me that we each have the power to make it to our destinations, whether it be in a job search, completing our education, building our wealth, or anything else that matters to us. We have everything we need to accomplish our task. Mostly, like the engine that could, all we need is to say “yes” to whatever is calling us and simply begin the journey. Before long, we will be chanting the engine’s chant, “I knew I could, I knew I could, I knew I could”.
The journey to finding that great job can be daunting. However, we know that our past accomplishments are an indicator to our future success. Sometimes we just need to think about situations in our past that we have overcome (whether it was on that first day of kindergarten, getting accepted into college or university, etc. ). Job search is simply a situation that is temporary and we know, in our heart of hearts, that this too shall pass.
Dive into your job search and you will come out the other side. Do nothing and you will sabotage your dream.
Instead of just coping with this experience, we need to be thriving! Let’s do this together! I decided to blog my experiences because I KNOW there must be others out there going through the same experience. I want to be part of your support network!
Be that engine that could! I know you can, I know you can, I know you can!
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