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- Single-Most Important Letter You May Ever Use in a Job Search
- T.A.P. Q#275 - More Risky Going Back to School or Starting Business?
- T.A.P. Q#274 - How Do I Get My Old Career Back?
| Single-Most Important Letter You May Ever Use in a Job Search Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:48 PM PDT 
Clearly, there are many more rejections in a professional job search than there are offers. And there should be. After all, if you are not getting rejections than you are not seeing many opportunities. So, How Can You Leverage Rejection? A top ranking career military officer, who during his time in the Reserves also developed a stellar career as a senior-level executive in industry, had the daunting task of re-entering the job market after his return from 2-3 years active duty; and during the worst economy in his lifetime. After job searching for some time, he summed-up his frustration with this: "For the first time in my life I am doing something and have no idea how I'm doing." Hearing this from an Officer at one of the highest official levels in our Military, was at the very least, unsettling to a career biz person like myself. Now he didn't say, "what I'm doing" he said, "how I'm doing!" Does anybody really every tell YOU how you are doing in YOUR job search? I am going to share with you what may be the single-most important letter in a job search, one that will address the challenge of not knowing how you're doing. ' The Rejection Response Letter It goes like this: Dear, I understand the rationale behind your letter of June 14, 2009 in which you said there are currently no openings at [Company] for an experienced sales manager. Undoubtedly, you receive multiple unsolicited resumes, and I thank you for taking the time from a busy schedule to respond to my inquiry. It is this type of consideration that reaffirms my belief that [Company] is a well-managed company. As a result, I would like to ask your advice because I believe that you have a great deal of information and expertise from which I can benefit. More specifically, I would appreciate 20 minutes of your time not to discuss current job openings, but to discuss what you look for in outstanding sales managers, what your opinion is of the long term growth in the [type of field], and any advice you would have for a sales manager with a keen interest in the same. Your expertise and experience in directing [Company] make your opinion invaluable. I will call early next week to see if we can arrange a mutually convenient time to get together. Sincerely, Certainly there are more rejections than offers in a job search; and most people do send a cordial letter . . . "thank you for your time and interest and if something opens up, please let me know". "Thank you" is good; "thank you" plus feedback is better. The more you are rejected, the more opportunity for feedback; and the more feedback you have, the more improvements you can make - a continuous process improvement. Soon you will no longer say, "I have no idea how I'm doing". In fact, you just may be thinking to yourself, "Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for that rejection! I'll be so much smarter the next time." In his book, How to Master the Art of Selling, sales guru, Tom Hopkins wrote, "I never see failure as failure, but an opportunity to practice my techniques and perfect my performance." ' I say . . . Gotta love that rejection! YT, Rob Taub, a Credentialed Career Master and CAREEREALISM- Technorati Tags: 3 years, active duty, busy schedule, career military officer, daunting task, experienced sales, frustration, job openings, june 14, level executive, professional job search, rationale, rejection, rejections, response letter, resumes, sales managers, stellar career, taking the time, time in my life
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| T.A.P. Q#275 - More Risky Going Back to School or Starting Business? Posted: 02 Sep 2009 12:06 PM PDT  Dear Experts, I'm 25 years old and I work as the Master Model Builder for LEGOLAND Discovery Center in Chicago. I was recently informed by my boss this position is a dead end. What do I do now? Is it best to go back to school and earn a degree or should I simply just deal with the fact I'm highly underpaid and unappreciated for a few years and maybe things will turn up? I've also considered starting my own business. Is it more risky to go to school and enter a new job market or start a small business? Any advice is greatly appreciated! CLICK HERE to see how experts answered this question on Twitter. Got a career question you'd like answered? Send it to twitter@careerealis Technorati Tags: advice, boss, career, degree, school, T.A.P. (Twitter Advice Project), underpaid
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| T.A.P. Q#274 - How Do I Get My Old Career Back? Posted: 02 Sep 2009 05:07 AM PDT  Dear Experts, Some years ago I decided to move back to Spain. I left my job in an American company after a quite successful career in Sales Operations, unfortunately without much planning. Otherwise, I would have found out Sales Operations is a job position unique to American and some British firms. Indeed, in these last few years given the uniqueness of this position across European companies, I only had one prospective Sales Operation job, as most these (American/British) companies do not have a Sales Operations team but rather a lonely position: a manager that covers Europe as a whole. This has left me working in job roles I did not really see myself in. I would like to get back to Sales Operations and do not have the option to work in the States. What do you recommend? CLICK HERE to see how experts answered this question on Twitter. Got a career question you'd like answered? Send it to twitter@careerealis Technorati Tags: advice, career, sales, T.A.P. (Twitter Advice Project)
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