Recently, posts by recruiters and career consultants about how to behave when looking for a job started to annoy me. Many advise you to lick your resume, put the Open to work status on your avatar and prepare for an interview to show yourself as best as possible. Maybe this approach will be enough? It is enough to cultivate passive dependence on someone else’s decision in people.

Let’s start with the fact that commercial firms, hiring to work, do not engage in charity. They need someone else’s expertise, and they are ready to pay for it. Neither the recruiter nor the hiring manager is doing you a favor by inviting you to an interview or sending an offer.

This applies to everyone from top managers to juniors.

Then why do we hope with such tenacity and such hope for other people’s expectations and other people’s evaluation, that we will be noticed and hired or promoted if we behave correctly? Why is it that almost every post tells us how to behave in an interview, how to please a recruiter or a hiring manager, but there are so few posts and articles about how to understand and accept your value yourself and how to tell others about it?

A person is the creator of his life and career

A person should first of all realize his value, focus on what he can give, how to realize himself, and not wait for recruiters or someone else to decide everything for him.

Later, a person will express all this in resumes, profiles, posts, and letters. But first he must understand who he is, what he wants, where he is going to grow and what he will bring to the world.

Good career development specialists begin precisely with the definition of a person’s values, what he can and wants to give to the world, and only then move on to resumes, self-presentation at interviews and other things that help convey this value to potential employers.

The attitude of asking and waiting for someone’s favor or goodwill, which I often see in posts, is an incomplete attitude. A much more productive position, according to which a person is the creator of his life and his path.

It’s all about priorities. First, realizing your strengths, focusing and packaging them, then broadcasting. Not vice versa. To be and not to appear. When a person realizes his value, he will be found even without a resume. Simply because such a person leaves very visible traces: in his environment, in social networks, in his work, everywhere.

It’s not just your expertise that matters, but who you are as a person

Who is more likely to get an offer: someone who knows what they want, knows their strengths, and is willing to sell their expertise consciously and profitably, or someone who is willing to do anything to get paid? The answer is obvious. A healthy business does not need slaves. He needs independent and responsible people who know their worth.

People are not robots. It is important not only what you do and what tasks you solve, but how you do it, who you are as a person, what your values ​​are.

Important obsessions on the teeth from the constant mention of soft skills. When a hundred people apply for a job, all of whom can solve the necessary tasks, that’s what matters!

Moreover, it is important for you to clearly understand who you are and what you want, what your values ​​and priorities are, what you are willing to sacrifice and what you are not. Do you really want to be hired? Do you want to find a group of like-minded people in which you can fully realize yourself and your needs at all levels? In money, communication, respect, self-realization, finally.

It is only your choice, your decision. Do you think that someone will solve these questions for you? It will decide, only you won’t like it. If you are not doing your job or not in your place, you risk burning out, as I burned out in my time.

Understand that it is you who makes the decision. You are responsible for your work, for your professional development. You decide with whom and how you want to work. Not the recruiter who didn’t give you feedback. Not a hiring manager who likes or dislikes smart boys or girls. Namely you!

When you understand this, you realize your value, the value of what you can and want to give to this world and how to do it. And you will start broadcasting it to others. As a result, you will find your place in life. A company in which you will be able to realize yourself to the maximum and in which you will be appreciated. Or open your own. It’s your decision.

Employers and clients will find you themselves

Would you like recruiters to start writing to you and offering you the job of your dreams? It is possible! I will tell people who have succeeded and how they did it.

Such perspectives are open to those who have understood and accepted their value, gained the courage to carry it into the world. Such people do not need to polish their resumes and respond to vacancies. Clients and employers find them themselves.

Do not believe? Here is an example.

I was very impressed by the story of the talented copywriter Valery Filistovych. At first, Valeria tried all the traditional methods of job search: she sent out resumes, responded to vacancies, filled out questionnaires on employers’ websites, and directly wrote to recruiters. The result was zero: either refusal or ignore immediately or after the test. After that, Valeria decided to change her strategy.

Firstshe compiled a list of mandatory criteria for future work that corresponded to her values ​​and stopped considering all inappropriate options.

Second, She just started doing what she likes to do – create content, write posts on LinkedIn about what she really cares about. She began to broadcast her thoughts, emotions and values ​​to others, ie. that whole thing called building your own brand.

Result: 3-5 offers per week that were sent to her by direct mail and a dream job that she chose herself.

Do you think that Valeria just knows how to write well, so it turned out that way for her? Then it’s a different story for you.

I am very glad to know Oksana Vanchuk (pictured) – an excellent specialist in social networks and communications. Oksana once publicly set herself the goal of swimming across the Bosphorus and regularly went to it with her coach, describing the entire process on social networks. And she achieved it!

Her story turned out to be so inspiring that leading Internet publications wrote about her. Just google this name and you will understand everything.

Do you think she has problems with clients now? They come to her not only because she is a great blogger, but also because she knows how to set goals and achieve them. If she set a goal to teach someone how to blog, she will definitely teach! So people trust her. Even if Oksana decided to rent, would it be difficult to find a job with such a reputation?

Do you think this does not apply to technical specialists, financiers, managers and people of other specialties? And from whom did they learn and continue to learn? I do not know specific examples in your specialization, but you know them!

There are many such people and their professions are different. Look around and you will immediately notice them next to you. When a person has understood and accepted his value, it is impossible not to notice him. He will definitely show in what he does.

Everyone has their own value, you just need to find it. Understand who you are, what is important to you, what you want to bring to the world and don’t be afraid to talk about it, start acting! Then you will not need to respond to hundreds of vacancies and hope for the favor of recruiters. You yourself will build your career the way you want!

Do you decide to keep rewriting your resume, trying to be liked and hoping they’ll take you?

About me

My name is Denis Potrubeyko

Received education in psychology and business. 25 years at Digital.
Now I help beginners and professionals understand and accept their vocation, focus and convincingly convey their value to potential employers and clients.

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