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Here are ten steps to get you started in your Job-Hunt Like a CEO project:

1. Decide what kinds of jobs you are ideally suited for.
2. Brand yourself in your Human-Voiced Resume and your LinkedIn profile for those jobs (the ones you just identified) specifically. The worst brand in the world is the brand “Jack of all Trades” (and the same goes for Jills)!
3. Answer this question: “What kind of Business Pain  do I solve for employers — an expensive, irritating kind of Business Pain that they will be willing to spend money to alleviate?” Your Pain-Solving ability is your power in the hiring equation!
4. Make a list of Target Employers who are located within your commuting radius and who might be suffering from “your” flavor of Business Pain. Maybe it’s pain related to losing market share, or pain related to a  broken supply chain or cost overruns. Whatever it is, keep your eye on that pain — if you create traction  with your hiring manager, the Business Pain you identified will be the reason why he or she responds to your outreach.
5. Use this method to identify your specific hiring manager in each of your Target Employers.
6. Read about Pain Letter composition and try your hand at a Pain Letter to a manager on your list. Don’t start with your favorite employer — start smaller until you get the hang of this new job-search approach!
 

 
7. For each employer you approach, customize your Human-Voiced Resume by highlighting the most relevant Dragon-Slaying Stories in your past.

8.  Make a spreadsheet to keep track of the Pain Letters you’re sending out. Follow up on each Pain Letter a week or ten days after sending it if you  haven’t heard anything back.

9. If you’re working full-time and conducting a stealth job search, try to send out three Pain Letters per week. If you’re not working, you can research, write and send out three per weekday!

10.Finally, take care of yourself. A job search can be draining. Get a lot of sleep and take care of your body and your mind. Don’t flog yourself to sit in front of your computer and job-hunt all day. Get out and have fun. You owe yourself some fun every day, whether it’ a bike ride or dancing to YouTube videos. Once you are working again, you won’t have time to goof off, and goofing off is an essential part of your Mojo-preservation strategy!Recommended by Forbes
If you have an idea, you have to believe in yourself or no one else would.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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