Your Job Search Needs Personal Vision
The Intentional Job Search is a new tool and online class to help you search with focus, self-care, and open space to rest and grow. Part of ensuring your job search is focused and intentional includes having and using a personal vision. It’s a simple, powerful companion for this very precarious time, and can be your constant companion for your entire life.
Personal vision is often misunderstood, which leads to misguidance and missed growth. It is not a feel-good statement, a list of goals or achievements. Nor is it a board full of beautiful places you want to see. Those lovely ideas can inspire and motivate, but they do not ground and focus you like a true personal vision can.
Your personal vision is a statement of who you are becoming. A short, future-focused, well-defined statement about who you want to become.
Outside of your job search, living and leading with a personal vision is solid ground under you in an ever-changing, often-brittle world. The truth in an era of negative and confusing messages. When you live with intent, making decisions will have more clarity and focus. The challenges of life will still be there, and you will be grounded because you know who you are becoming. So your lows are not so low, and your highs are absolutely aligned to who you are becoming. It’s a small amount of reflection and work for a long-term, valuable payoff.
Your personal vision is an ongoing, iterative way to ground and direct your wild and precious life.
You can learn more about using a personal vision for your job search by taking the online class, The Intentional Job Search.
Your personal vision is an ongoing, iterative way to ground and direct your wild and precious life.
Looking for work really stinks. In a market where up to 50% of all job postings are not legitimately hiring, the job search experience can be confusing and even depressing. Then there are the messages that the economy is good and jobs are not being filled, but they are nowhere to be found. “I thought there was a labor shortage?” Friends and family have asked me. Maybe there is, but it is not in the business and tech environment. So staying positive and motivated is hard when you are sneaped (Shakespeare) after three interviews.
The bottom line: With a strong foundation and focus on who you are becoming, you have the power to be strategic and positive, even on the most dismal of days.
Long after your job search is over, the growth you experience through developing a personal vision, and then living with a personal vision as a guide, will remain with you as a constant companion. I wish you the best in your search.