Personal Mission Statement

As you have already taken crucial steps toward evaluating your work and life experience, you are now in a position to assume where you would best fit in. Its time you boiled down what you've learned into a personal mission statement in a few sentences. Describe who you are and where you want to be. The result will be your mission statement. Use you mission statement in your resume. Effective personal mission statements often help people focus their job search and sell themselves to employers.

To set forth your current goals, your mission statement plays a vital role. However, the goals may change during the course of your job search and beyond. Therefore you'll want to reevaluate your mission statements once or twice a year. Each time you update your mission statement, you should project at least three years into the future, though you may not want to change it in the interim period to reflect your personal and career growth.

Your personal mission statement will serve you as your roadmap to the future. Your three year mission statement will provide you with a long range plan while reminding you of shorter term goals. You better frame one and hang it in a place where you can see it easily, everyday. Let it be the reminder of your goals every single day.

Put Your Plans into Action

Now you have a strategic road map detailing where you want to head and the industry in which you want to serve, the battle to achieve success has only just begun. So, you should now develop a personal approach so as to carry out your job search effectively.

Daily Routine

Your full-time job happens to be finding a new job during unemployment. You really have to stay sharp to perform this job. The world will go on according to its usual schedule and you will have to match it by creating and sticking to your own routine. You no longer have to follow a schedule to please your boss. However you still have to fix times to getup, do your job search, knock off for the day and eat.

A Winning Attitude

The two major requirements for effective move through the re-employment process are to be proactive and a positive attitude. A strong sense of urgency, absolute follow through and an acquired ability to anticipate and respond to needs as they arise are the demands of today's working environment. Your duty is to mobilize your plan and make it fruitful. Obstacles and difficulties are always there at the initial stage, but you have a responsibility to your family and yourself. Loser are never hired, always keep it in your mind.

The right attitude will help you further your goals much faster than you would like to think and move through the re-employment process faster. While wrong attitude will always keep you in indeterminate state.

Why a Winning Attitude?

The dictionary defines the word Attitude as: "a state of readiness to respond in a characteristic way to stimulus." In reality, it is much more than that. The ultimate success of your job campaign will be determined by your personal attitude. Though you are hiding your negative attitude or your anger towards your former employer, it will still be seen. The hiring process is as much emotional as it is physical. Winning attitude is really important in a job search. Being aggressive, negative or carrying noteworthy emotional baggage send a mixed message that can significantly hold back your chances of being hired. You might be hired if the prospective employer likes things about you.

How do you establish a winning attitude?

Establishing a winning attitude can be done through daily practice. Your personal attitude builds the road to your re-employment. Practice posturing, thinking and acting positive on a daily basis and you will be surprised to find an ever increasing optimistic attitude on you. Attitude sets the stage for success, its apparent in your voice, posture and presence.

You are in charge of your attitude; you become what you think about. What you are is reflected in your attitude, your abilities and talents are seen apparently. Your daily efforts will have focus and clarity because of the time you have taken to create your personal job plan. As a result of following your plan you will find that an expectant, winning attitude will develop.

An Office Space of Your Own

You need to make your job search effective, for that you need an office space of your own. At home-a separate room that's free from everyone is best. If you can't manage to have one, get creative; use a bookshelf, desk or any other furniture to divide a room and appropriate the quieter half for you work space. Ask family members to respect your working hours and not to disturb while you are at work in your "Office".

Once you set up your office, add some equipments which would make you feel like a professional. Possibly you'll have a separate phone line, an answering machine and letterhead. A computer and the printer is must. Computer with internet access can be very effective and helpful.

Make yourself comfortable as possible; spend long stretches of time in your office. Make sure there's adequate lighting. Take fresh air breaks as frequently so that you can keep yourself productive while you're in you job-search office. Get the additional source for job related information like libraries. Libraries are quiet place and you can get lots of information.

Keep Track of Results

It is often said that it takes 99 "no's" from prospective employers to get 1 "yes". Don't get dejected when you get rejected, keep in mind that you are one step closer to getting that "yes'", every time you get a rejection letter or someone slams a phone when you call.

Keep track of each and every call; each contact's name, the company, the date, your action and the result. This gets especially significant once you begin your rounds of informational interviews, because you may have to quickly identify people when they return your call and the worst things you can do is make them feel they're part of undifferentiated cold-call or mass-mail campaign. Then, you'll be able to see, at a glimpse, the progress you've made.

Keeping the track of the results of your job search lays the foundation for a successful job search and assumes and maintains responsibilities for your reemployment. Evaluate the available job-hunting resources and decide which are most likely to help guide you through your career planning process.