Change

CHANGE

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly" - Richard Bach

As a job seeker today, you are in a sort of metamorphosis. You are all changing in ways you never asked for. But, like the butterfly, many of you have already transformed into something new and wonderful with your career decision and job attainment. For some, it’s the same type of work and for others; you have changed locations, industry, job titles. Like the butterfly, you are still beautiful no matter what you have ended up with, or if you are still unemployed.

Change isn’t all that easy for anyone, yet it is inevitable, just part of life. It’s often painful and mostly leads to a situation where you may even lose your old identity but at the same time it is rewarding and gives you wings and opens the door for something new.

The choice you have is between hanging on to the past and lamenting what's lost, or bracing for the road ahead and profiting from it. The decision is purely one's own and has to come from within!

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”~ Carol Burnett

GOOD NEWS: There is so much help to be found online for job seekers. Don’t forget to join the BACTS LinkedIn group as I post new openings colleagues send to me and other important information for you, the job seeker. Additionally, I came across this article that will help you with a Cover Letter. http://michaelspiro.wordpress.com/

CONGRATULATIONS: To Cynthia A. who has recently accepted a position with the Guidance Center in Long Beach. She wrote: “I am happy to report that after almost a year of being unemployed (one year in July) I have received and accepted a job offer this morning. I realized that I had to expand my scope of thinking as to where I could and would work. Hard times call for extraordinary measures”.

BACTS FACT: “You will more than likely be asked in an interview, ‘What is your salary requirement’, make sure to know what your range is as well as your total benefit package expectation.”

THAT'S IT: “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

May this week ahead be wonderful for all of you!
Jan