Surviving Change You Didn’t Ask For

Have you ever encountered that “life stress” list that rates changes such as moving, death of a spouse, getting married, etc.? The folks who created that list in the sixties estimate that life is 44% more stressful now than it was 50 years ago, and they came up with that estimate before the 2008 global meltdown. I’m not sure we even want to know the new number!

Chances are you’re confronting some change you never asked for—perhaps a loss of job. Or some dream. Maybe you have to have to learn to work in new ways or find a new place to live.  I’m sorry if it’s difficult.

None of us knows what the future holds. But there is something we can do right now—develop the ability to adapt. As far as I can tell, it’s the key indicator of success in these turbulent times. AdaptAbility is the capacity to be flexible and resourceful in the face of ever-changing conditions. To respond in a resilient and productive manner when change is required. Some of us already know how to easily do this. The rest of us need to learn–quickly.

Resisting change wears down our bodies, taxes our minds and deflates our spirits. We keep doing the things that have always worked before with depressingly diminishing results. We expend precious energy looking around for someone to blame—ourselves, another person, or the world. We worry obsessively. We get stuck in the past, lost in bitterness or anger. Or we fall into denial–everything’s fine, I don’t have to do anything different. Or magical thinking–something or someone will come along to rescue me from having to change. We don’t want to leave the cozy comfort of the known and familiar for the scary wilderness of that which we’ve never experienced. And so we rail against it and stay stuck.

Fortunately, once you become conscious of how to adapt, you can face future changes with greater confidence and swiftness.

Want further incentive to learn? Experts in mind-body medicine have shown that people who are master adapters live longer and healthier lives than others. How come? Because they counterbalance the stress hormones that wear down our bodies with positive attitudes and behaviors that release feel good hormones which restore balance to our cells, organs, and tissue. That’s why many health experts define health itself as AdaptAbility.

When the environment changes and we must therefore too, it’s appropriate to complain, to take, in the words of Dr. Pamela Peeke, the BMW (Bitch, Moan and Whine) out for a little spin. But soon it’s time to put it back in the driveway and get down to business. We are all being called on to stretch mentally, emotionally, and spiritually into the future. We can do it!

About MJ

A member of Professional Thinking Partners who is recognized as a leading expert in change, M.J. Ryan specializes in coaching high performance executives, entrepreneurs, individuals, and leadership teams around the world to maximize performance and fulfillment. Her clients include Microsoft, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Hewitt Associates, and Frito Lay. Her work is based on a combination of positive psychology, strengths-based coaching, the wisdom traditions, and cutting edge brain research. Her new book, titled “AdaptAbility: How to Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For” was recently released published by Random House’s Broadway Books.  She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and daughter.

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Does Telling Your Kids You Were Fired Make You “The Biggest Loser”?

Let me start by saying that I’m using “Dad” for the sake of simplicity. This is a non-gender question. But my editor asked me to stick with one gender, so as a father, I’m writing this column as “Dad.”

Some people tell me that they find it very difficult to tell their children that they’ve been fired. Does a 10-year-old even know what the word “fired” means? And how much do teenagers even really understand? Can you just blame the “R word”: recession? Let’s face it, adults barely know what the word “recession” means, so for your children of any age, they just know that Dad (or Mom) is now home all day, not working.

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Keyword-Rich Resumes Get You Noticed

The demands on job seekers, in respect to writing resumes, seem to increase daily. Of course, it’s not really that often, but it does seem as if the list of resume dos and don’ts has grown exponentially over the past few years. It hasn’t. In fact, much of what was important 20 years ago – yes, I’m old enough to actually remember – is still important today … with a modern twist. Adding email addresses to headings and using keywords to catch the attention of scanning equipment or software are pretty much all there is that differs.

Including keywords was probably important 20 years ago, too, but went by another name, the way “reputation” morphed into “personal brand.” Anyway, what’s important for job seekers to know is that adding words to their resumes that pertain to their career fields or mirror those they read in job postings will get them noticed faster.

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Stephen Viscusi is interviewed by cohosts Carrie & Andy Robinson on the Career Success radio show.

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Jobless Rate Hits 8.5%; 663,000 Jobs Lost

Today’s released unemployment number ate deceiving: they do not reflect those that have given up work, stopped collecting unemployment, or work
part time–unemployment is more like 20% even higher in some cities like Detroit.

Yet at least half of all American’s do have jobs, and can keep them.

Don’t “assume” you will eventually become a statistic. My book “Bulletproof Your Job” (HaprerCollins) is a great tool, with tricks, yes tricks, and secrets on how to keep your job. Even you are of work, visit my website www.bulletproofyourresume.com to find the secrets on how to get your resume noticed.

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First, Shootings by Disgruntled Fired Workers. What’s Next?

Do you work with someone who you think would go on a violent rampage if they got fired?

Have you ever seriously thought about that prospect? How can you not, with the reality of today’s headlines jumping out at us?

The common theme of these tragic killings is that someone has been fired or is recently unemployed, has become deeply unhappy, and feels “wronged” by the boss and co-workers. Now they’re out for revenge. For an already unstable person, getting fired is the final push over the edge that turns him or her into a homicidal, vengeful, cold-blooded killer. These individuals somehow lose their coping mechanism and turn on their bosses, co-workers, and anyone else in the way.

I detest the phrase “going postal.” It demeans our nation’s postal workers, who work so hard in what are often monotonous, routine jobs. I didn’t invent the phrase and try never to use it. However, this single phrase does help us picture this growing pattern of violence at work – which might increase as more and more Americans get fired.

Remember, ever since the “R” word – RECESSION, of course – has become the media buzzword, it’s become a blank check for the boss to fire anyone. Bosses use the recession as an excuse to fire those they have been dying to get rid of.

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Career Fairs or Career Fairy Tales?

Today’s career fairs seem anything but “fair” to me.

Have you noticed lately how every local TV news report has a weekly segment on a career or job fair? The footage may as well be recycled week after week: the camera pans over a long line wrapping around a corner. Then the reporter (always with surprise and a newsworthy sense of self-importance – almost as if he’s breaking a story as hot as Lewinsky and Clinton) marvels over the record attendance.

Um, is this really news? My God, half the country is unemployed, and people are lining up thinking they might land a job. Surprise! Someone give that reporter a raise.

My absolute favorite part is when the reporter corners one of the attendees and gets her to talk about how she plans to stand out from the crowd.

Oh no, wait, this is the best part: then that same person talks on camera about how she’s now begun to make friends in the job fair lines because they all recognize one another from the previous week’s job fair. Hmmm… it might be time to reevaluate that whole “standing out from the crowd” strategy.

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Headhunter Trade Secrets for Finding a New Job During a Recession

It is important to remember even if the unemployment rate reaches 10 percent, that means 90 percent of Americans are still working.

So, do not to get caught up in the emotional anxiety of assuming you too will lose your job. The fact is that most Americans will continue to keep their jobs. Yet, workers from all companies will be let go to meet the bottom line. It’s just for show (and yes it is just for show).

Let’s face it, even the meanest boss hates to fire anyone, but when the “recession” word is used in conjunction with lay-offs, it’s really a blank check to fire anybody with no real reason needed.

Work is not a democracy. If you weren’t old enough to be working during the 1991 recession, the idea that you’re not just judged on merit or performance is probably new to you. It seems repugnant; however, get your head out of the sand.

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What to Do When You Lose Your Job

The economic news gets worse by the day. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the national unemployment rate surged to 8.1 percent in February, its highest in 25 years, with 651,000 jobs lost last month.

Financial industry workers have been hit hardest by the recession. But in recent weeks, there have been waves of layoffs at companies like I.B.M., where workers once seemed safe from the economic storm.

In this sinking economy, what should you be prepared to do if you lose your job?

• Katherine S. Newman, professor of sociology
• Michael Melcher, executive coach
• Michael Gates Gill, author and Starbucks worker
• Stephen Viscusi, author and headhunter
• Harley Shaiken, labor expert
• Bob Adler, self-employed consultant

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The Art of Staying Young: My 10 Tips

Being perceived as being younger both emotionally and intellectually is often more important than looking younger. In this recession you need to learn the fine art of being perceived as younger as well as looking younger. So if you’re over 40, here are 10 tips:

1: Buy teeth whitening strips. Shallow for sure, but having coffee-stained teeth won’t do you any favors in interviews.

2: Get on Facebook today. If you don’t know how to join, let your kids show you. Use Google and know what Wikipedia is. Learn how to text and TiVo.

3: Check out your local Apple store and ask to learn the difference between an iPod Classic, iPod Touch, and iPod Nano.

4: If for some reason you still remember your SAT scores, keep them to yourself. No one cares and scoring has changed, so you’ll just wind up aging yourself.

5: Pick up a copy of Entertainment Weekly before an interview. Nothing gets you more up to date on the youthful world of pop culture.

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Can You Bulletproof Your Job?

Have you been distressed lately about the economy, your job or your boss? If so, you wouldn’t be alone.

When times are toughest, most of us tend to wait out the storm rather than seek out other, perhaps even riskier opportunities.

In his new book, Bulletproof Your Job, author Stephen Viscusi says that your “primary objective” at work is to protect your job because it is “your most valuable asset.”

Forget the financial crisis; the issue is more primal than that. “Here’s the cold hard truth: If you don’t click with your boss, all that merit and pedigree won’t get you anywhere when your job is on the line,” writes Viscusi. “What really matters is what your boss thinks about you.”

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6 Ways to Prevent Being Laid Off

Think your job is safe? How can anyone know for sure in this economy when it’s not uncommon for big companies to axe hundreds of people in one day, and for small companies to fold with no warning?

Stop worrying and start taking action to protect your position—and possibly earn a promotion and raise. Here’s your six-point plan to make sure you don’t just survive the tough times—you thrive.

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Best Ways To Bullet-Proof Your Job

MIAMI (CBS4) ―With the national unemployment rate approaching historic high levels, the tumbles on the stock market, the federal bailouts and the skyrocketing number of home foreclosures seem to be a constant reminder of the gloomy economic forecast for our near future.

“I know a lot of people who are unemployed and can’t find jobs,” said one person who CBS4 spoke with in Doral.

“I know a lot of friends out their looking for part time jobs and there’s nothing out there really,” replied another.

Steven Viscusi, author of Bulletproof Your Job” said if you still have a job that’s your most valuable asset. So you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect it.

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In the News: The New Yorker

I was recently mentioned in the New Yorker regarding my offering to recently laid off Harper Collins employees.

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Bulletproof Expert Drops All Charges for Ex-HC Staff

Just a quick update to Wednesday morning’s story about Stephen Viscusi, the resumé-building expert offering his services to laid-off HarperCollins employees: Having initially reduced his fee by half, Viscusi tells us he ultimately decided to forego any compensation after hearing from more than 50 people who’d been dropped by the company (which published his Bulletproof Your Job last year). “I was actually shocked at the quantity of people who contacted me,” Viscusi emailed. “The Collins people who called me for help seemed in ’shock and awe’ over their dismissals.”

Viscusi also commented on how many of the confirmed layoffs had come from editorial. “It seems that the people responsible for ’sales’ of our books should be just as accountable as the people who purchase them,” he observed. “After all, if you can’t find a book in a bookstore to buy, whose fault is that? The author, the publisher, or the sales rep who couldn’t get it merchandised and stocked correctly?”

(Note: Writing about the layoffs for The Wrap, former PW editor-in-chief Sara Nelson quoted an anonymous source who estimated that 20 employees had been cut; commenters were quick to dispute the tally: “The cuts to staff, including the buyouts, were more like 100 to 120,” said one.)

Bulletproof Job Man Reaches Out to Harper’s Fallen

Collins Business published Stephen Viscusi’s Bulletproof Your Job last fall, and he says he’s grateful to the imprint—everyone at the company, really—for making it a success. That’s why he’s offering any former HarperCollins employees who were caught up in yesterday’s layoffs a 50 percent discount for his resumé consulting services at BulletproofYourResume.com.

“I suspect some of the temporarily surviving HarperCollins executives still left may have taken pages right out of Bulletproof Your Job to keep their own jobs,” Viscusi emailed us last night, “because the HC scenario played out as I describe in my book. My strategy explains how more junior executives were kept—and moved up the ladder while the bosses get the ax… Some people at HC read the book, others may not have. Either way, they are a case study for their own product.”

The “unprecedented discount” for the former HarperCollins employees (who are “like family to me,” Viscusi observed) covers the creation of a new resumé as well as a personal consultation with Viscusi himself.

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Worried about getting fired?

As soon as you finish reading this blog, send an immediate but short e-mail like this to your boss.

Dear Boss,
When you have 5 minutes, I need to run something by you.
Best,
Steve

This is your preemptive measure in approaching your boss now while 90% of Americans still have jobs. And quite honestly, we only hear the dreaded numbers worsening every day.

Take the strike now by letting your boss identify your face with the person they don’t want to fire.

When the word “recession” is used in conjunction with layoffs for any company – large or small – it’s virtually a blank check for your boss to fire almost anybody.

Being visible is the number one thing you can do to keep your job. It’s really important this very minute to actually ask your boss for some face time.

That’s right. Do it in person – asking to save your job by email doesn’t count.
Most of the time, this really works. Even the meanest boss hates to fire anybody, but it’s more difficult for a boss to fire an employee who just came to them face-to-face and asked to keep their job.

Still don’t believe me? Let’s role play. Follow steps 1-3 by clicking the link below…

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How to Bounce Back After Being Laid Off

Michael Raynor worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for 21 years. In late October, the 45-year-old father of two from Howell, N.J., was laid off.
Experts, and people who’ve been there, say you must confront one emotion: fear.

“When it first happens, you just freeze and it’s just so hard to think,” he said. “You’re pretty much just spinning in circles at the very beginning. You don’t know which way to turn.”

It took Raynor four days to tell his wife, Roseanne, then a stay at home mom, that his last paycheck was in the mail.

“When I came home and saw my kids and wife they were choked up that I lost my job and you just do whatever it takes,” Raynor said. “I don’t care where I work or what I’m doing — I have three people who count on me.”

ABC News followed the Raynors as Michael went to career counseling, got retrained and applied for 30 jobs. At first, he didn’t get a single call back.

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Strategies To Help You Increase Your Team’s Productivity In Lean Times

The weakening economy and turmoil in the U.S. financial system have left employees uneasy in workplaces across the country. How bad will it get? As workers fear for their jobs, employers wonder how to make their teams as productive as possible so their companies can get through the crisis with a minimum of damage. Author and “America’s Workplace Guru” Stephen Viscusi will outline strategies to improve productivity will discuss proven methods to:

• Improve internal teamwork and productivity
• Improve collaboration with vendors
• Enhance partnerships with customers
• Improve your own time management
• Delegate projects more effectively

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Women for Hire

I am now the new contributor to the hit blog, ‘Be Gutsy‘, hosted by Women for Hire.  Women for Hire was founded in 1999 as the first and only company devoted to a comprehensive array of recruitment services for women, Women For Hire offers signature career expos, inspiring speeches and seminars, a popular career-focused magazine and customized marketing programs. Their website, womenforhire.com, offers a wide variety of career-related information and videos geared to working women, and an online job board that helps leading employers connect with top-notch professional women in all fields. In 2008, we produced our first work from home video, which has been viewed by thousands of women interested in this growing field.

Check it out and visit regularly for my guest posts.

7 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Career

As the economy sinks further into a recession — one that the Federal Reserve has now indicated will be longer and deeper than previously thought — job security for most Americans has quickly evaporated.

According to minutes from the Fed’s December meeting released Tuesday, the unemployment rate is expected to rise significantly into 2010, to a level higher than the 6.5% to 7.3% range the agency projected at its October meeting.

The unemployment rate, which hit 6.7% in November, is already at its highest in 25 years. Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody’s Economy.com, expects it to peak at more than 9% in the first half of 2010 — a jump that would be similar in severity to that during the double-dip recession in the early 1980s (see table). “Businesses are certainly going to be cutting back,” Faucher says.

Unemployment Rates Through the Years

At 6.7%, November’s unemployment rate is still nowhere near its peak of 10.8% in late 1982,
but economists predict it could get there by the first half of 2010.

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WJR Interview with Paul W. Smith

Check out my recent radio interview on WJR.  In it I talk with host Paul Smith about the major points within my book.

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How to Be Perceived as Fifteen Years Younger

By: Stephen Viscusi

How old an impression do you make when you’re interviewing? Of course, we all know that your boss can look up your age in your personnel file, or an interviewer can just count backwards from the year of graduation printed on your resume. However, here is the truth: “perception” is the new reality, like sixty is the new fifty. So you need to learn the fine art of being perceived as younger as well as looking younger.

Is this fair? Is it even legal? And most importantly, should you give in to such nonsense? I’ll put it this way—if you are over forty, you need to read on.

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How to be a Survivor of Today’s Workplace Devastation

As soon as you finish reading this blog, I want you to take a deep breath and send an immediate but short e-mail like this:

From: Steve
To: Boss
Subject: Face time – 5 min.

Dear Boss,
When you have 5 minutes, I need to run something by you.
Best,
Steve

What’s this about? It’s your preemptive measure in approaching your boss NOW – while 93% of Americans still have jobs. And quite honestly, we only hear the dreaded numbers worsening every day.

Take the strike now by letting your boss identify your face with the person they don’t want to fire.

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Love your job? Then save it!

If you’re worried about getting laid off, here’s some consolation: So is everyone else. Follow these do’s and don’ts to raise the odds that your job stays, well, yours.

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Cómo blindar tu empleo: Spanish Version Release Tomorrow!

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My live blog on FOX News

MYFOXNY.COM — Stephen Viscusi, the author of Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out on Top at Work (HarperCollins) answered your questions about keeping or finding a job in these difficult economic times.

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Webcast: Strategies To Help You Increase Your Team’s Productivity In Lean Times

The weakening economy and turmoil in the U.S. financial system have left employees uneasy in workplaces across the country. How bad will it get? As workers fear for their jobs, employers wonder how to make their teams as productive as possible so their companies can get through the crisis with a minimum of damage. Author and “America’s Workplace Guru” Stephen Viscusi will outline strategies to improve productivity will discuss proven methods to:

• Improve internal teamwork and productivity
• Improve collaboration with vendors
• Enhance partnerships with customers
• Improve your own time management
• Delegate projects more effectively

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The value of office gossip

The managing director of a Sydney-based recruitment agency recently grappled with a problem. He could not afford to award all employees a pay increase but was worried an alternative proposal could destroy morale. So he decided to start a rumour.

He told a trusted subordinate of his plan to award higher salaries to a few key staff, who would also have to take on greater responsibilities. As expected, news spread rapidly through the company and employees were surprisingly positive about the proposal. So he decided to press on with the new pay structure.Such an experience, says Grant Michelson, research director at Audencia Nantes Business School in France, shows that senior managers can use office gossip networks as a quick way to test reaction to proposals.

As the economy slows and companies cut costs, the rumour mill is likely to focus on where the axe falls next. Managers have traditionally seen gossip about such an issue as detrimental to productivity and bad for morale. They think they “must do something about the ‘problem’ of gossip”, says Mr Michelson. But many believe that informal channels and conversations in the workplace can be helpful to employers.

At any rate, attempts to thwart rumour are futile, says Frank McAndrew, professor of psychology at Knox University, Illinois: “Managers cannot stop gossip – it is too much a part of human nature; it would be just as difficult to get people to stop breathing.”

Nonetheless, gossip and rumour has a dark side. According to Prof McAndrew, when employees become preoccupied by gossip they can become paralysed and wreck managers’ attempts to introduce change. Moreover, gossip rarely feels benign if you are the object of it.

But managers ignore it at their cost. As Mr Michelson says: “It doesn’t mean you should take action on every bit of information you hear but if it’s from a reliable source, it is probably worth listening to.” He cites the findings of an inquiry in 2005 that looked into how two male psychiatrists working from the same British hospital were able to sexually abuse female patients over a period of more than two decades undetected. The final report found that management should have paid greater heed to rumours indicating that abuse was going on.

Mike Emmott, adviser on employee relations at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, suggests the only way to slow the rumour mill is for companies to be open with information: “They need to get there first. Managers must be honest and credible. You’ve got to be honest even if you don’t know what’s going on. You’ve got to be available.”

If, like the managing director of the Sydney recruitment company, you want to test a proposal through the gossip network, it is vital to pick the right messenger, says Mr Michelson: “They have to be a subordinate who you have built up some trust [with], either through social or professional activities. But they can’t be so far below you in the pecking order that such easy exchanges would be unlikely.”

From the employee’s perspective, it is important not to look like the office gossip. “You certainly don’t want to look like you’ve got time to waste in this time of uncertainty,” says Mr Emmott.

Stephen Viscusi, author of How to Bullet-Proof Your Job, believes the best strategy is to be friends with the office gossip: the “trick is to absorb the information without repeating it, to appear to be above it even while you’re filing it away for future reference to use, if necessary, to bullet-proof your job”.

He cites the example of a friend who heard his company was about to be acquired and deferred his vacation. The rumour turned out to true and by being at work when the announcement came, he was able to carve out a clear role for himself in the fall-out from the merger.

Gossip can bring employees together and force people to be good citizens, suggests Prof McAndrew: “If I am a slacker who might be tempted to not do my fair share, knowing that people will gossip about me and that my reputation within the group will suffer might force me to do more than I otherwise would.”

What is more, says Mr Emmott, it can be fun: “If you had a workplace without gossip it would be dead and dysfunctional.”

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What’s Worrying You: CBS 2 Follows Up Stephen Viscusi

Cindy Hsu Reporting

Finding a job is what’s worrying many of our viewers this new year, who have been responding to our calls to tell us what their concerns are with the economy in 2009.

On Tuesday, CBS 2 introduced Anderson to Stephen Viscusi, the author of “Bulletproof Your Job.”

“Just talking to Stephen, I realized, yes, I was really not sending the right message. I think I was not detailed enough,” she told CBS 2.

Viscusi re-did Anderson’s resume, expanding her objective to include her specialty for healthy cooking, and adding a lot more details about her former clients such as their ages and medical conditions. He asked her to change the long message on her phone, so it’s more professional.

“So when they call you they can feel like they’re getting you, and they’re going to feel comfortable with who you are and what you’re about, and that you’re easy to reach,” he said.

Anderson had primarily used Craig’s List to look for jobs, but Viscusi is putting her resume up on half a dozen career sites, and coached her on interviewing skills, such as always giving a firm handshake, asking for the job, and offering to try the job for a trial period.”If it’s between Sonia and

XYZ candidate, and Sonia says to me, ‘I’m more than willing to try this job for 90 days,’ and she can prove herself in that time, statistically most people who offer that, not only do they land the job they land a permanent job as well,” he said.

Anderson walked out feeling good about her meeting with Viscusi.

“I am very, very good, very optimistic, I just know that something good is going to happen,” she said.

And Viscusi said Anderson’s positive attitude is key.

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The Brad Brooks Show

Check out my interview with Brad Brooks.  We answer the question of, “How do you succeed at work and ensure that your job is ’safe’?”  We also discuss things like “developing a Viagra handshake” and how to find out if your company is for sale. Does your boss tell you that there are no office politics?

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Bulletproof Your Job Now in Korea!

Check out a recently authored article in Korea’s 3rd largest newspaper, The Chosun Daily.

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