The Voice of Job Seekers

Mark Anthony Dyson ★ Career Writer ★ Speaker ★ Thinker ★ Award-winning Blog & Podcast! ★ I hack and reimagine the modern job search!

7 Monster Ways to Assemble Career Value

Successful job seekers create and communicate reasons to hire them.  Do you know what value you bring to the table?

Value cannot be monetized, but is compromised if you misunderstand your worth. It is not only what you say in an interview or a networking event, but also what you can show and what you do.

If you don’t, these suggestions can get you started.

1. Assess and Test Your Weaknesses an Strengths

When a tested and tried job seeker abilities exploit character and strengths. Invite tests of what you know, and don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Assess measurable and seeable results and keep them in front of you so you can demonstrate competency.

2.Create and Formulate Your Voice

Show that you possess creativity and originality that addresses your target employer. If your message is irrelevant, no one will care how about the uniqueness of your ideas.  You have stories to tell that displays your abilities, good! Practice them in front of people who can help you share them from your heart.

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3. Embrace the Face to Face

The more time job seekers spend initiating live conversations, the more opportunities created. Face time is always a productive way to build useful networks.

4. Imitate and Operate the Good

Whatever you see that successful job seekers are doing, DO IT!. No one corners the market on any strategy or method. Don’t plagiarize! But do add your personal touch to anything you see that works! Embody new techniques, lessons, experiences, and make them your own.

5. Institute and Contribute Often

Sharing and giving brings good things to the contributor. Offering other beginning job seekers help brings appreciation and more possibilities. Who doesn’t need help in starting a job  hunt these days.

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6. Be Aware and Prepare for the Conversation Behind Your Back

No matter what your goals and objectives are, what you do right links to your personal brand. Every job search related meeting, phone call, and interview leaves an imprint. How positive and impressive it remains is up to you.

7. THINK BIG!

Don’t be afraid of graphs, charts, blogs, and video to display your talents, and showcase your abilities. Although these strategies are not for everyone, it is an option if you own these skills. If you achieved big results, be creative in displaying them.

Do any of these resonate with you?  How will you apply these ideas? Did I forget something? Let know in the comment section.

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.

The Bert and Ernie Job seeker Lesson

Why should the job seeker care? There is much to be said about the job seeker who creates value beyond the workplace.

It might be a slow news cycle that we cared that Facebook is running a campaign for Bert and Ernie marrying–assuming that they’re gay. It doesn’t matter if they’re hermaphrodites, they are role models for the generations.

Never arrested for anything, nor at fault for break-ups.

No drug arrests, no loitering.

Nothing.

Yet, their role in our children’s education is priceless. We’re not exactly sure if they get paid or not for teaching our children letters, words, or not. I will say that they have one of the most important volunteer jobs in America.

From what I could find, they have talked about their roles one time in 10 years, maybe longer.

Newsweek interviewed them in 2002, asking about what they do:

Why did you decide to make a movie?

ERNIE: We were just playing around with words, and somehow it ended up on tape.

BERT: Bootleg, I think.

But why are words so important?

B: We need words to sing and to write and to talk on the phone. Without words we’d all have to get jobs as mimes.

E: And NEWSWEEK would be blank.

(BERT AND ERNIE. Newsweek, 00289604, 7/8/2002, Vol. 140, Issue 2)

No matter the premise, Bert and Ernie will be remembered for their contributions, and the value they have delivered to several generations.

Jobseekers must focus on offering value in every phase of the job search, to be invaluable and memorable. Think of what is unique to you, and promote it to your network and potential employers.

Don’t ever believe that you will fairly be compensated for what you do. If your achievements and accomplishes have a price, like unrequited love, satisfaction will remain unachieved.

Value is priceless.

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.