Frustration is anger plus disappointment that results from a perceived lack of control. If you’re frustrated in your executive job search, it means that you think hiring executives hold all the cards–and you have nothing but a list of open positions and an executive resume.

1. How to Avoid Job
Search-Killing Frustration
Amy L. Adler
CEO

2. Evaluate Your Job-Search
Frustration
• Do you think hiring
executives hold all the
cards--and you have
nothing but a list of
open positions and an
executive resume?
• Armed with only these
two tools you feel
jaded, cynical, angry, or
frustrated about your
executive job search.
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3. Avoid Sisyphean Job-Search
Frustration
• Stop all job search activity.
• Cut out practices that result
in anger and disappointment
and replace them with highimpact strategies.
• Identify your unique brand.
• Identify what you want the
world to know about you.
• Promote your message
clearly, confidently, and
consistently.
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4. Stop Looking On Job Boards
• How much time do you
spend looking on the
Internet for job
postings?
• How many job postings
were right for you in all
of that searching?
• How many of those
resulted in interviews?
• Was your result enough
to justify your effort?
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5. Rewrite Your LinkedIn Profile
• LinkedIn is not working
if you’re not getting
profile views or new
connections.
• Re-craft your LinkedIn
profile according to
your brand.
• Include searchable,
long-tail phrases that
will attract the right
audience.
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6. Revise Your Resume
• Eliminate all versions
of your resume but
one, and focus it on
your unique brand
and proven expertise.
• Don’t confuse your
audience with multiple
flavors of your
experience.
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7. Apply Only for Positions that
Are Right for You
• Experience a greater
return on your effort by
focusing on the very
few positions that are
right for you.
• Don’t waste time
spreading your resume
around for positions in
companies that don’t
meet your discerning
criteria.
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8. Start Getting Interviews
• Hone your branded
message.
• Eliminate the noise.
• Be recognized by your
specific audience for the
one or two things for
which you need to be
recognized.
• Frustration with your
executive job search is
likely to diminish because
you’ll start seeing more
reward for the powerful
effort.
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9. Do You Have Trouble Focusing
Your Job Search?
• Call Five Strengths
for a free evaluation
of your unique
executive job search
situation.
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10. Face Your Career Change Fear
Get your complimentary
copy of
“3 Simple Steps to
Clear Your Career
Change Fear”
Amy L. Adler, CEO
(801) 810-5627
Toll-Free (800) 590-2377
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