Your Success Stories and a Job Journal

Your Success Stories and a Job Journal I wrote about Beverly Harvey yesterday and there was a blog post she wrote that triggered todays post A few years ago we introduced a new feature called the Job Journal inside JibberJobber.  This is oh-so-valuable. Let me lean on Beverly Harveys post to bring out some of her ideas: these stories are a critical component in your resume, leadership addendum, positioning statement and other marketing collateral, as well as in your interview. She is talking about PAR statements (problem/action/result) and also calls them OAR, CAR and STAR. Absolutely. Heres a funny thing during my career I had plenty of PAR situations that I would have used in an interview, on a resume, or in a networking conversation. However, my brain wasnt thinking about all the great things I could accomplish. (for more on this read my most popular post:  Depression Clouds Everything) It was somewhere between Im obviously a loser because Ive been out of work for ___ months and Oh my gosh how am I going to pay ___ bill this month?? That is what I was thinking. My ability to remember and think logically was hampered by my immediate needs. And, the way I was treated as a job seeker made me disbelieve anything good I ever accomplished in my career. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED TO WRITE YOUR STORIES! If you are unemployed, spend FOUR hours today TODAY and brainstorm your PAR statements. Then, go into JibberJobber and put them in there.  You can put 25 entries into the Job Journal as a free (Regular) user and unlimited if you upgrade. This is SO critical! Your Success Stories and a Job Journal I wrote about Beverly Harvey yesterday and there was a blog post she wrote that triggered todays post A few years ago we introduced a new feature called the Job Journal inside JibberJobber.  This is oh-so-valuable. Let me lean on Beverly Harveys post to bring out some of her ideas: these stories are a critical component in your resume, leadership addendum, positioning statement and other marketing collateral, as well as in your interview. She is talking about PAR statements (problem/action/result) and also calls them OAR, CAR and STAR. Absolutely. Heres a funny thing during my career I had plenty of PAR situations that I would have used in an interview, on a resume, or in a networking conversation. However, my brain wasnt thinking about all the great things I could accomplish. (for more on this read my most popular post:  Depression Clouds Everything) It was somewhere between Im obviously a loser because Ive been out of work for ___ months and Oh my gosh how am I going to pay ___ bill this month?? That is what I was thinking. My ability to remember and think logically was hampered by my immediate needs. And, the way I was treated as a job seeker made me disbelieve anything good I ever accomplished in my career. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED TO WRITE YOUR STORIES! If you are unemployed, spend FOUR hours today TODAY and brainstorm your PAR statements. Then, go into JibberJobber and put them in there.  You can put 25 entries into the Job Journal as a free (Regular) user and unlimited if you upgrade. This is SO critical! Your Success Stories and a Job Journal I wrote about Beverly Harvey yesterday and there was a blog post she wrote that triggered todays post A few years ago we introduced a new feature called the Job Journal inside JibberJobber.  This is oh-so-valuable. Let me lean on Beverly Harveys post to bring out some of her ideas: these stories are a critical component in your resume, leadership addendum, positioning statement and other marketing collateral, as well as in your interview. She is talking about PAR statements (problem/action/result) and also calls them OAR, CAR and STAR. Absolutely. Heres a funny thing during my career I had plenty of PAR situations that I would have used in an interview, on a resume, or in a networking conversation. However, my brain wasnt thinking about all the great things I could accomplish. (for more on this read my most popular post:  Depression Clouds Everything) It was somewhere between Im obviously a loser because Ive been out of work for ___ months and Oh my gosh how am I going to pay ___ bill this month?? That is what I was thinking. My ability to remember and think logically was hampered by my immediate needs. And, the way I was treated as a job seeker made me disbelieve anything good I ever accomplished in my career. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED TO WRITE YOUR STORIES! If you are unemployed, spend FOUR hours today TODAY and brainstorm your PAR statements. Then, go into JibberJobber and put them in there.  You can put 25 entries into the Job Journal as a free (Regular) user and unlimited if you upgrade. This is SO critical!