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Let Thanksgiving Inspire Your Job Search

With all the doom and gloom surrounding the economic scene, now is a perfect time to step back and reflect on the bigger picture. And what better time than Thanksgiving to do this? 

Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday, a time to focus on everything for which we’re grateful. Especially while job hunting, Thanksgiving is about seeing the good in our lives and feeling appreciation despite outer circumstances or conditions. Our happiness isn’t about how much stuff we’ve accumulated. Rather, it’s about feeling grateful for who, what and where we are right now. It’s about gratitude for how far we’ve come, what we can do and for the challenges we’ve worked through.

Gratitude and the Law of Attraction: Gratitude is critical to the success of our job search. According to Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, we attract what we think about and concentrate on through the universal Law of Attraction. When we focus on our cup being half full, we attract more abundance and prosperity. This includes job opportunities, especially in these challenging times. When we think that job hunting is hard, and focus on the jobs we didn’t get offered, we attract more rejection and disappointment.

It’s been said that, “Attitude is everything.” That’s especially true in job search. Although we may not control anything outside of ourselves, we are in control of what we think, feel and do. This Thanksgiving, why not try these 4 simple gratitude steps to improve your job search?

Joe Talks with Jason Alba of "Jibber Jobber"

Joe Turner interviews Jason Alba, the man behind Jibber Jobber, about how to better manage the information overload in your job search process.
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Once your job search extends beyond a few weeks, you've most likely amassed quite a few notes, names and contact info.  Over time, this builds up and important details tend to fall between the cracks.  This can not only drive you crazy, but it can be disastrous as you miss out on important follow-ups and potential call backs you need to be making.

I recently caught up with Jason Alba.  You may recall the last time we interviewed Jason a few months back about his recent book, "I'm on Facebook, Now What?" 

This time, we talk about his primary job search tool called Jibber Jobber.  You can check out his website as well as listen in here as he talks about what the Jibber Jobber tool can do for you in helping you better manage your job search for life. 

Joe