Joan Runnheim Olson is an internationally certified coach whose experience is shaped by over a decade of career and leadership coaching, consulting, and workshop training. She enjoys helping clients develop a focused plan that empowers them to develop and maintain momentum to achieve their job search and career management goals. Joan’s first-hand experience with lay-offs, career change, and job search allows her to "put herself in her clients' shoes." She works with professionals, managers, and executives from a wide range of fields, including healthcare, IT, financial services, and sales and marketing.
Joan instills confidence, offers support and encourages out-of-the-box thinking. Her dynamic style, caring attitude, and warm demeanor not only enables clients to open up and see what is possible, but also helps them set a plan of action, manage it from day to day, and keep accountable and on track with their goals.
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1. Network, Network, Network!!! Up to 80% of jobs are found through networking. In addition to face-to-face networking (the most powerful) be sure to add social media networking to your list.
2. Treat your job search like a job. Be willing to spend 35 hours a week in your search if you're unemployed and up to 15 if you're employed. Any less than that will most likely lengthen the amount of time you spend looking for your next job and cost you money!
3. Diversify. Step out of your comfort zone. Be willing to diversify and try new strategies. If you're used to simply surfing the Internet for a job, try something new.
4. Have fun. You know the saying, "All work and no play......" Schedule three hours of fun per week. You decide what FUN activities you want to do.
Try these strategies and see if you get some momentum going in your search! If you're not in a search, keep these tips in mind for when you are looking for a job.
