Blog Post: Welcome to Market U

It’s Jeannette Kraar, otherwise known as the Breakout Coach. This is my first entry and one of many that I hope you will find helpful and informative.

I’ve been coaching professionals and entrepreneurs succeed since 1983, so current challenges are not all that new. Over the years we’ve been through economic swings, the rise and fall of the dotcoms, the Internet explosion, aging populations, ever-shifting markets, downsizings and retirements, changing technology, and other economic uncertainties.

Within each entry, my goal is to provide you with knowledge and resources you need to breakthrough perceived and real limitations to reach higher levels of SUSTAINABLE personal and professional success.

So let’s get started…..How would you like to Stop Searching for A Job and Start Attracting Professional Success? Yup – even in today’s economy…..

Listen, old job search methods no longer work and relying on your education, skills and experience won’t separate you from the crowd. So what are you to do? Use these ten laws of ATTRACTION to create the career you want:

1. Assess – Evaluate your skills, interests and abilities. Understand the transferable value in the marketplace.

2. Translate – Communicate your competencies and expertise through well-crafted oral and written strategies that include a quality resume, cover letter, professional summary, exit statement and well-defined accomplishments.

3. Target – Create a pro-active marketing plan that targets specific industries, markets and companies where mutual opportunities can be explored and optimum benefits realized.

4. Research – Knowledge is power and power exudes confidence. By researching target companies, market conditions and industry concerns you can position yourself as an influential leader who can deliver results rather then an out-of- work professional who is looking for a job.

5. Apply – Mange your activities and your time with a Project Plan that includes action steps, time-lines, and expected outcomes – always remembering to evaluate and adjust as needed.

6. Connect - Interact with the “right” people and build a valuable and powerful professional network.

7. Transition – Move into a career that will accommodate current needs while positioning you for future advancement.

8. Identify – Recognize projected technology, market and industry trends to allow for pro-active change management.

9. On-going relationships building – Always be expanding your network while cultivating and protecting existing relationships based on integrity, shared values and mutual benefits.

10. Never stop growing – The only way to develop new skills and expand experience is to either improve the way you already do something or welcome and accept new challenges that are outside of your knowledge base.

Have questions? Want more information? Join me on Wednesdays for our free Breakthrough Connection call – 1:00pm EST. Just shoot me an email at jkraar@pmicg.com for the call in number and access code!

To your continued success-

Jeannette