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The Cranky Middle Manager Show #238 Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door Harvey Mackay
Posted on 16. May, 2010 by Wayne in General
Today Wayne Turmel talks to motivation and career guru Harvey Mackay about his new book, “Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door-Job Search Secrets No One Else Will Tell You”. We go old school today to give you some good advice. Also we look at a Renaissance Mercenary who made a career out of some serious outsourcing and a quote from Emerson. Don’t say we aren’t classy.
Sit down, shut up and listen to Harvey. He hasn’t been around this long without learning a thing or two.
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Show Notes
0:00 Welcome to the show. Today since we’re talking about finding a job and being in charge of your own career we dedicate this episode to John Hawkwood, the Renaissance mercenary master of outsourcing and living on your own terms.
3:35 The quote of the week is from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Is your career a matter of luck or cause and effect?
5:07 Whether you’re currently employed or you’re out on the street, we all need to think about our careers and where the next job is coming from. Harvey gives us some hard numbers about how hard it is to find a gig. In your career you’ll have 10+ job changes and more than 3-5 full blown career changes in our lifetime.
10:50 The biggest challenge for a lot of us is the belief that our work will speak for itself. It doesn’t work that way, the competition is too strong. The only thing that will save you is your network. What shape is your network in?
13:30 What does a network look like today? Online social networks are an addendum, not a replacement for your own personal network. You have to put yourself out in the mix. Harvey has a radical solution if you get let go from a job… go volunteer. You’ll learn networking, sales and management skills plus meet lots of people.
18:11 No one wants to deal with you or hire you if you have a pout on. Harvey gives us some tough love (and a couple of cliches) about adjusting your attitude. We impact our own mood through the people we meet and the input (books, blogs and stuff) that we read.
22:49 You can’t reach out to your network when you’re out of a job if you haven’t been in touch before that. It takes a plan and some work. Informational interviews are a good way to do that.
25:58 What do we need to focus on when we go out on an interview? Do your homework and personalize the contact when you send out a resume or CV.
Harvey’s Resource
There’s a ton of stuff on his website , including his free book on networking
> we impact our mood through the people we meet and the input we read
I like that and I find it true — coupled with “we get what we focus on.”