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Staying in the Game Six Practices for Helping the Long-Term Unemployed

Staying in the Game Six Practices for Helping the Long-Term Unemployed. June 1 st , 2013. By: Mark Guterman MeaningfulCareers.com. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news: I don’t know where I am or where I’m going. The bad news: I’m way ahead of schedule.

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Staying in the Game Six Practices for Helping the Long-Term Unemployed

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  1. Staying in the Game Six Practices for Helping the Long-Term Unemployed June 1st, 2013 By: Mark Guterman MeaningfulCareers.com

  2. I have some good news and some bad news. The good news: I don’t know where I am or where I’m going. The bad news: I’m way ahead of schedule. Attributed to David Lee Roth

  3. Practice 1: Take a Disciplined Approach • Help your clients develop and use a structure that works for them • Encourage taking small steps • Have them focus their attention and energy where they have control

  4. Practice 2: Manage Stress and Emotions • Help them develop a daily regimen of self-care, making this an integral part of their job search • Have them focus on the tasks right in front of them; teach them how to put emotions to the side • Encourage the asking for help before it is desperately needed

  5. Practice 3: Develop Actionable Goals and Plans • Have them create A, B, and possibly C goals and spending appropriate time on each • Guide them in stepping out of their comfort zone, as necessary, to keep things moving • Help them to do all necessary research to insure that their goals and plans are inspiring, realistic, and feasible

  6. Practice 4: Trust the Process • Help them to be disciplined and accountable for their actions • Show them how this as an opportune time to develop in new ways and learn new things • Remind them that the job search has a logic and timing of its own; it’s rarely, if ever, personal

  7. Practice 5: Keep a Positive Attitude • Remind them that this time period is just one small part of their life story • Help them to affirm and communicate their strengths to self and others • Guide them in being mindful of their choices

  8. Practice 6: Allow for Moments of Inspiration and Awe • Encourage the making time every day for silence, meditation, or prayer • Remind them to allow their sense of the divine to infuse the job search in appropriate ways • Help them to remember that the journey itself is as meaningful as reaching the destination

  9. Next Steps: Get Moving, Keep Moving • Choices/decisions to be made? • Practices to put into action? • Information to gather, understand, and utilize? • Others?

  10. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll still get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

  11. For Further Information • Mark Guterman 510.487.2590 Mark@MeaningfulCareers.com • www.MeaningfulCareers.com

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