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It can be overwhelming when we seem to be just below a tall wave that is crashing over top of us. Will we survive, take a thrashing, or will we drown? The first thing you need to do is to Get Over It (see my earlier column on getting over a layoff). Once you have accepted and come to terms with your new situation, get right to work! It can be a self-fulfilling prophesy of missed opportunities when we just give up, rather than fight on, when we find ourselves in a tough position.

You need to be smart and effective with your efforts, or those efforts may go unnoticed. Develop a solid plan with strategic outreach to potential opportunities that you see and not just to HR. Just don’t ‘send in a resume’, because that’s what everyone is doing these days and your message or resume will likely get lost in all the white noise generated by the hiring process. You have to take a real look at yourself and your assets, as I have guided others to do in my book, Self-Recruiter® Changing the Rules: How to Be Your Own Recruiter & Ride the Economic Crisis to Your Next Career Challenge.

Besides getting all of your value pieces ready to present and to sell to a hiring manager, you need a system, or to develop a method to be sure you have a real in-depth plan of action to find and win that right next position for yourself. That includes understanding how to really work your network, or how to develop one for yourself if you are just getting started in networking.

Check out many of the useful forms on my site (SelfRecruiter.com, click on Forms & Downloads) that can help maximize your efforts. Get busy now and you can be out interviewing for those desired positions, and by-passing that ever expanding waiting line that is forming at the HR department. Read much more about it in my book.

Good luck on getting your plan of action into gear-

John Crant

www.SelfRecruiter.com

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