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04/24/18 – Master Your Mindset to Land Your Next Job

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Vered KoganWritten by Cindy Nowack

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Master Your Mindset to Land Your Next Job
Vered Kogan

Vered Kogan, a professional certified coach and job search expert, tells us that career transition can be an exciting time of growth and possibility. It can also be a stressful and overwhelming time in our lives. The key to your job search success is in your mind.

Our brain was programmed at the time of our birth until we reached 7 years old. Our experiences were given positive or negative meaning by our brain at that time, which then shaped our beliefs. Our brain then continued to look for evidence that strengthened those beliefs as we grew up.

Often, we are not even aware of the 60-70,000 thoughts that run through our brain each day. Breathing, eating, and even driving, can be subconscious efforts that we can do without really thinking about them. In fact, we are operating on “automatic pilot” most of the time. We may not even be aware of most of the belief systems dictating our life. The good news is our brain is a muscle. It can grow and learn and change.

We experience a range of emotions in the job search, and in life. Lots of highs and lows. Some people can ride the wave, but others resist. Those who resist struggle more. What’s the difference between those riding the wave and those struggling? Mindset!

Mindset is a belief, or a feeling of certainty, about something. Some mindsets can be negative and hurt us, such as anorexic patients who believe they are overweight, but in reality, they are dangerously underweight. We may have a negative mindset about our recent job loss too. We take the job loss personally, and have a victim mindset.

Other mindsets can be positive and empower us. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, but he bounced back after that setback, worked hard, and you know the rest of the story. Michael Jordan had an empowered mindset.

Through the MINDshift Change Process™, Vered wants you to know that we become what we believe. Beliefs make up 95-98% of our mental power. Every breakthrough starts with a change in our beliefs.

The MINDshift Change Process consists of five steps that can lead you through this mindset change:

Step 1 – Desire
Clarify your outcome. Have a clear vision of what you want to create – being hired for your target job, doing well at an interview, improving your well-being, working out, or eating healthy. Give clear, specific and positive instructions for your subconscious mind.

Step 2 – Mindset
Shift your limiting beliefs by replacing them with new beliefs. Tune in to your inner chatter – the fears and worries that may bubble up to the surface. Now wonder what if the opposite were true? Replace your fears and doubts with a positive, uplifting goal that is aligned with your new beliefs.

Step 3 – Focus
Train your brain to become more positive. As Vered said earlier, the brain is a muscle. The more you use your brain, the stronger it grows. You can take less than 10 minutes when you wake up in the morning to read your goals out loud and visualize. Imagine achieving your goal. The brain can be programmed by thought alone, so this daily practice will bring you closer to achieving your goals.

“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen” – Muhammad Ali

Step 4 – Strategy
Adopt a proven strategy. Utilize the resources at Career Connectors events. Network.

Step 5 – Action
Take mega-aligned action. Break through the barriers that have been holding you back. Your results will change, and employers will notice. Your new mindset will give you new results.

A Cherokee tells his grandson the story of the fight of two wolves within each of us. One wolf is evil, and the other wolf is good. The grandson asks, “Which wolf will win?” The grandfather simply replied, “The one you feed.”

The key to your job search success is your mindset. With these steps, you can reprogram your brain to a positive, empowering mindset, which will transform your job search and your life. Go to www.veredkogan.com for more details.

HIRING COMPANIES

Cenlar
Robin Stanton, Senior Recruiter

Cenlar started as a savings and loan in 1912. The company left the banking side in the 1980s to focus fully on the mortgage subservicing business. Cenlar serviced 1 million loans in 2013, and is projecting 40% growth through this year. They are managing that growth by hiring for many different positions and will reach 700 employees in Tempe this year. Cenlar has two offices here, at Hardy and Elliot and also Kyrene and Warner.

In addition to their robust benefits package, Cenlar offers internal promotions, a formal mentorship program, and ongoing education and training.

They are hiring for the following positions:

  • Customer service
  • Team leader
  • Quality control
  • Quality assurance
  • HR
  • Research

For more information about these positions, go to cenlar.com/careers, or call Robin or one of her team members at (480) 961-3900.

 

Aerotek
John Dvorak and Laura Barker, Recruitment Sourcing Specialists

Aerotek was originally founded 30 years ago by two cousins in a garage. Today, they have become one of the top global recruiting and staffing agencies. Their client, UTC Aerospace, needs 300 people to test airplane evacuation slides over several days in mid-May. You could earn in $600 in 4 days if you are 18 years or older and can pass a medical screening. Here’s the flyer with more detail.

CLOSING

Thank you to our 13 partner companies, including Goodwill and WozU.

On Wednesday, May 2, from 3-6pm, you are invited to the Freedom Financial Career Mixer. You can connect with the top performers and hiring leaders from all departments at Freedom Financial Network’s new location at 2114 E Rio Salado Blvd in Tempe. They are looking to hire more than 1,000 people. Come see why they were voted #1 “Best Place to Work” in Phoenix. RSVP at http://bit.ly/ffn-mixer.

Our next meeting is Thursday, May 3 at Grand Canyon University where Career Connectors will host a Technology Panel, with Vixxo, GoDaddy, USAA, Dignity Health, TechFinders, and Freedom Financial Network.

5 Mindsets Only the Most Successful Job-Seekers Have

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Written by: Dayna Ciarfalia (Mathews) 

Professionally edited by Kitty Carlisle

5 Mindsets Only the Most Successful Job-Seekers Have

Back in 2010, I moved to Phoenix from small-town northern Minnesota without a job and without ANY contacts in ANY industries. Smart move? Probably not, but I did it anyway because I wanted to experience life in a new place.

I didn’t really know what I was looking for in a job either. Triple trouble! About a week after moving here, I got a call from a financial company in Scottsdale and figured I’d give it a shot. What I ended up signing up for was a MILLION times less than ideal, but hey, it was something to put on my resume and give me some additional work experience. I had to start somewhere, right?

For 2 months straight, I drove over 40 miles each way and spent 3+ hours in traffic every day to a job that paid me ZERO dollars per hour.

Yep, you read that right.

I just needed to get my first three clients and then I would get paid an hourly wage – a feat I foolishly felt would be easy for me. In order to do that, I attended 4+ networking events, walked into 20+ stores and made 50+ cold calls per week. ALL of which came up with nothing – ZIP, ZILCH, NADA.

Though I would leave work every day exhausted, drained, and feeling like a failure, I still had a smile on my face and retained the utmost faith that everything would work itself out. I believe it was that ONE mindset that successfully got me through that hard time until I found what it was I was meant to find: my first high-paying, hourly, benefits-paying job as a Career Advisor at a local non-profit called Arizona Call-A-Teen Youth Resources (ACYR) here in Phoenix.

It’s because of that job that I sit where I sit today, but if I wouldn’t have had that crappy, character-building job (if you would even call it that), there’s no way I would have been introduced to the job at ACYR. In reflecting on my experiences in the job search here in Phoenix, and the experiences of my most successful clients, I’ve found that it’s been mindset that’s gotten me – and them – through to the successful places we ended up.

So, what are these mindsets, you ask? Welp, here you go!

  1. “I will find the job that’s right for me.”
    If you don’t believe finding the right job is in your future, it’s WAYYYY less likely for that to come true for you. Seriously, belief in getting what you want makes a world of difference. Just ask anyone who’s read The Secret. If you haven’t read the book and want a taste of what it’s all about, you can watch this video. You won’t regret it.
  2. “Everything will work out as it’s supposed to.”
    When you choose to see the world in this way, everything that happens in your life just becomes part of the ride; the ride that will lead you to your ultimate destination. With a mindset like this, you can handle anything and get through it successfully, even a job that pays you zero dollars an hour 🙂
  3. “I am the solution to a company’s problems.”
    Whether you believe it yet or not, YOU are a solution. The skills, experience, knowledge, and education you have equates to solutions for the companies you’re hoping to work for. When you start seeing yourself this way, you feel more empowered. You feel like YOU are in the driver’s seat being proactive in finding the problem to which you’re the answer.
  4. “I am 100% responsible for my success in the job search.”
    No, it’s not the economy. No, it’s not that there aren’t any jobs out there. And no, it’s not that you got the wrong degree. You may not be happy with me for saying this, but your success in this life and in the job search is 100% in YOUR hands and no one else’s. If you’ve placed blame on anything other than yourself while job-searching, that’s a mistake, and it isn’t helping. Take a step back and look at how you could be improving. Could you take a class to improve your skills? Could you be more active on LinkedIn? Could you be getting out of the house and meeting people more? Take responsibility for everything in your life, and watch things change for you.
  5. “With a positive attitude, I can make any experience a better one.”
    If you don’t consider yourself a positive person, I’m not saying that you can’t be successful. There are plenty of successful pessimists out there, I’m sure. BUT I would bet you all the money in the world that if you went around and asked 100 recruiters what kind of person they want to work with, one of those words would be “positive”. There’s a reason for that, folks. Positive people are more fun to be around, more enjoyable to be around, and overall, they just tend to be more successful because of their ability to turn any situation, even the most negative ones, into a more positive, successful one.

Though I’ve had many an opportunity in my life (as I’m sure have you) to have a negative mindset or not see hope in my future, I’ve chosen to keep mindsets that serve me in the highest ways possible. It’s these mindsets that have changed my life and the lives of thousands of others I’ve seen.

Your mindset is powerful. Thoughts turn into actions. Actions turn into habits. Habits turn into life-long behaviors, many of which can be negative if the wrong mindsets are chosen at the start.

Choose wisely, my friends, and you WILL be successful in the end.

Best of luck to you in all you do!