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Writing Your Way to a New Job Opportunity With Carla Bass

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I am grateful and honored to have Carla Bass, retired Air Force Colonel, now writer, author, and speaker, on the show. We’ll talk some about her book, “Write To Influence!” We’ll also talk about how writing can change and advance your career, as she did with thousands while in the service.

For today’s episode, I had several discussions with some who were speakers and attendees at the CTL conference. The conversations include Kris McGuigan, Ken Diamond, Michele McCann Kelley, and Caroline Francis. All are career professionals helping job seekers to advance their careers.

Listen and see what I’m talking about and get in on the conversation.

You can also text me at 708 365 9822

You can email me at mark@thevoiceofjobseekers.com if you need help.

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At this time of year and point of the show, I usually tell you there’s one more show left which I’ll publish on May 10 until September. I am looking at some of the challenges of today’s job search, and although the number says low, many of you are out of work. I decided it may help if I didn’t ghost you for three months.

What if I published one or two episodes each month of the summer? Would that help?

Let me know what you think?

More about Carla:

Colonel Carla Bass has taught audiences how to write clear, concise, and compelling text for more than 20 years. Students of her workshops have won grants, jobs, and competitive awards. She shares how to write stand-out effective resumes to help you advance your career in her book.

Enjoy the interview!

Epilogue

I will periodically release shows through the summer—a minimum of three. You will get hour-long episodes of job search advice, conversations, tips, and special guests. I plan to include excerpts or full episodes of my live stream shows “The Modern Job Search Checklist” or “JobSeekerNation.” I will replay some guest appearances from other shows.

So enjoy the rest of the show, and I’ll talk to you soon.

I hope you enjoy what’s coming.

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.

by Mark Anthony Dyson

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

by Mark Anthony Dyson

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.