Today’s guest post is from Lauri Williams, CEO of Optasia Career & Training Services and author of “Six Steps Six Figures: A Power-Packed Guide For Your Career Goals & Life.”
The growing number of job losses have crushed the spirits of numerous American workers, leaving many to wonder if and when they will be able to put the pieces back together. But there is a way to overcome the sense of gloom: Rally together a strong, effective network of professional and personal contacts that you can use to your advantage when you look for a job. In other words, you need your own team of cheerleaders.
Here’s how to find them:
- Start with yourself. When building a team of network contacts or cheerleaders, it is important that you assess your own worth first. You must have a clear understanding of your strengths and weakness so you will be effectively able to market yourself to your network contacts and prospective employers.
If you put two people in an workplace, one of them is bound to annoy the other. But SmartBrief on Workforce readers don’t have to let such tensions interfere with productivity. The secret? “Don’t let it touch your soul,” says Bob Sutton, a professor and organizational psychologist at Stanford. “That’s a very Zen type of thing, but there are times when you just have to learn not to care.”
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