COVID-19: Stay Cool and Make it Work

The best investors in this market keep cool heads. Now, stay the cool-headed investor in your job hunt and future results! My in-laws in Wuhan show me daily how they stay cool in the time of COVID-19 and make it work.

To succeed in your job search, the key is to not stop. Here are my mentee’s recent outreach results. She’s going for large multilateral development roles.

Be smart, but don't be frozen in your tracks by news. I was planning to meet with people for lunch this week, I’m electing to do those meetings over the phone.

Stick with your job search goals.

With the largest one-day stock market drop in history, with the malfunctioning of virus testing systems, my students are still doing the following:

—booking dozens of calls with their target firms
—getting employee referrals
—holding video interviews if not on-site
—going for offers even if there is the prospect of a deferred start.

What about you? Are you ready to re-commit to your career...

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Inspirational Quote: Impossibilities are Opportunities

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

- Charles R. Swindoll
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Keep Going Amidst The Situation

These days, each day is a new situation. Things are up in the air. Same for hiring managers, who still need to hear from you. Your chance to help a team and improve a process hasn't changed. Keep Going!

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Inspirational Quote: Move Out of Comfort Zone

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. - Brian Tracy
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Acknowledge the Good That You Already Have

Heard of social media right? It’s media that is social. Have you heard about social interviewing?

It’s interviewing that is social.

Some people call it a coffee chat. It’s also how to generate interviews “on demand”.

80% of jobs are found via networking, The balance requires being really good at face-to-face interaction. People hire people, not resumes.

Yet, for as many people telling me they had a great coffee chat, people say “network doesn’t work“.

At any age, we all have sthg we haven’t done before. Even for an experienced American executive, coffee chats can be “learning how to ride a bicycle“.

The best way I’ve found to help people produce great results is to guide them on exactly what to do and say in the “before during and after”. That just seems the best way to accelerate somebody “learning how to ride the bicycle“.

Maybe you feel your “not there yet “with your job search....

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Is it Okay if I Call "BS" on MS Programs

Q: Is it okay if I call "BS" on MS Programs offering less recruiting support and access to firms vs. undergrad and MBA candidates?

A: Especially in the case of international students: “oh yeah, sure you can come here and pay full tuition. Oh, no, you can’t have the same access to the recruiting services that we offer to other students“

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