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Image & Resume.
Immediately update and upgrade your resume. Have your resume clearly represent your personal best. Make sure that the reader has no doubt about how well you can perform. Your resume must express the best of who you are! This means that impeccability matters! Present yourself professionally and in a style that both flatters and communicates who you are. Give people a reason to hire you! If you don't effectively represent or promote yourself, why should a potential employer think that you'd effectively represent or promote their product or service?
Vacancies.
Don't dismiss newspaper ads because you've heard that most people don't get jobs through the newspaper. Think creatively about what resources are available to you and utilise them! Besides networking and the newspaper classifieds, there are professional associations, recruitment and temp. agencies and CareerLink. Do not overlook the website of virtual employment companies. Visit web-sites like JobsDB and explore the vacancies and tips featured. Explore every avenue where jobs or work is mentioned. Sometimes, your ideal work is tucked away in few words in a small simple advertisement.
Focus on your strengths.
You're concerned about your future and worried about your income. While you might feel powerless and fearful or anxious about your lack of control, make a commitment to live from your strengths and not from fear. Identify your strengths and make a conscious decision to live from them.
The future will unfold in unforeseen ways when you apply and integrate this concept into your life. Work to maintain your self-confidence while being open to others' contributions. List on a piece of paper the qualities that make you unique and special - list your strengths, talents and skills. Look at the list daily, and add to it when new insights about your strengths emerge. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.
Remember the Flying Wallendas? When Karl, the patriarch of the Wallenda family, was in his seventies, he fell 120 feet to his death while trying to walk a tight-wire between two office buildings in Puerto Rico. Later, his wife said that before the stunt, for the first time in his life, Karl had seemed concerned about falling. When it came for the time to perform, he fell because he was so focused on not falling, rather than on getting to the other side.
Focus on your strengths! In tough times, remember Karl Wallenda. When you concentrate on not losing, rather than on winning, you'll find yourself dead on the ground.
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