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Maybe It’s Not Great Or About The Resignation Anymore

While many professionals have decided to hop on “The Great Resignation” train, some have concluded their experience was disappointing. After warnings of joining this movement, like if it were a fraternity or sorority, people are starting to accept it as a way of life.

This is just one of many things I recently shared with Denise Matthews, the Elevate Careers Summit founder.

Here are a few other thoughts:

  • Every fiber of job search and the workplace is tested during #TheGreatResignation. Your research of companies is more of an examination and investigation of companies for the things that matter to you.
  • What I said about today’s and yesterday’s job search and the way baby boomers look at #jobsearch“…were sold a bag of goods that existed maybe in the 1960s and maybe the seventies, but as time went on, Those truths became shadows of truths and eventually faults.”
  • Why people are leaving their jobs and why it’s insidious to “tough it out.”

Let me know your thoughts.

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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Quitting is Like…Normal Now, Right?

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I am exhausted from reading about how quitting is a big deal. It is a staple in our career DNA, like no longer reading an uninteresting book. Once a job peels away at our skin, we need to shed the layers.

Finding out a diet no longer helps us lose two pounds a week. We find out it wasn’t the diet in the beginning. We ate less. I got tired of eating the same foods day in, and day out, so we stopped. The result: Our weight has been the same.

Then, we go through exercising more to raise our heart rate, but since a faster beat doesn’t affect us aesthetically, we stop working out consistently.

The same with quitting. We’re quitting a bunch as Americans. We’re job-hopping to make more money, creating equitable career capital, and understand it’s a part of our journey.

Not just Gen Z. All of ours. 

We’ve cut classes because we’re bored. Does that mean we’ve given up on school? Nope, the class is trash. The major might be too, but right now the class sucks.

Critics interpret this movement as people hating work, companies, and structure are the ones who hate dieting, low-carb foods, and weights. They instead run, walk or step 10,000 times, or use the crazy crunch machine and say “quitters” need to work harder.

Newsflash: Running half-marathons for three months a year and the crunch machine isn’t all that productive. It only looks like you’re working hard. Suppose that’s your goal, cool. But the baby tetradactyl you idolize is ugly. And so is the old model of doing it harder, either.

That’s what people who are quitting or have quit are telling America. 

It’s a norm.

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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Finding Jobs Using USAJobs.com with Robin Schlinger

Finding Jobs Using USAJobs.com with Robin Schlinger
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A military follower asked me about federal resumes. I wrote federal resumes for a big client, but not recently. I asked colleagues in a Facebook group I’m a part of, and Robin Schlinger emerged as someone whose reputation and work proceeded her. I’ve known about Robin’s work for years through other colleagues and resume writers in the space. She was so generous in offering a mini-workshop hybrid with a conversation to introduce USAJobs.com, the primary site to find federal jobs. I published the video version a couple of months ago on my YouTube page. Today’s episode is the audio version of Robin’s presentation.

You are more than welcome to join the discussion. Here are three ways you can:

– Call and leave a voicemail at 708-365-9822, or text your comments to the same number

– Go to TheVoiceofJobSeekers.com, press the “Send Voicemail” button on the right side of your screen and leave a message

– Send email feedback to mark@thevoiceofjobseekers.com

More about Robin:

Robin has been writing federal resumes for quite some time. She’s worked with various branches of the federal government providing tutorials, workshops, and coaching. Robin regularly speaks to job seekers and industry professionals on Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Federal resumes, resume writing, LinkedIn profiles, and successful job search strategies.

Robin’s presentation is nearly 1 hour and 40 minutes in this episode. And it’s a fraction of the entire workshop she does for her corporate clients. We focus on applying through USAJobs.com, the main site to find published federal jobs. She also offers federal resume tips.

Presentation highlights:

  • Robin provides preliminary tips to do before starting the process.
  • It’s essential on USAJobs.com to create a USA jobs profile–anyone can create their own.
  • We discuss your security clearance status on your resume, and your application is vital.
  • If you are disabled, you want to listen to the job advice Robin offers at 22:40
  • “If you apply for a job that doesn’t match your experience and what you can do, you’re not going to get that job.”
  • It’s not a place to change careers. It’s a place to change job locations, doing what you’ve already done unless you’re disabled.

 

 

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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