Career Confidential: Resolve to Find Your Dream Job in 2012!

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Guest Blog:The lovely ladies of Mom Corps Los Angeles shared these motivational tips for finding the job of our dreams in 2012.

1. Schedule time for exploring your career options. It doesn’t have to be a lot of time. If you set aside one hour each week, you’ll find that you have plenty of time to make a list of your favorite companies, explore job boards, and read up on careers. We recommend checking out job boards, using Linkedin to find people with interesting career paths, and keeping a notebook full of career ideas.
2. Polish that resume and resolve to have three friends look at it and give you feedback. Need a place to start? Try our resume template.
3. Resolve to start doing what you love every day. Are you a great writer? Awesome with numbers? And organization whiz? Try to do this thing the most in your daily life so that you get better and better at it. Whenever possible, delegate the rest.
4. Think of three things you can learn this year that make you more professional, more skilled, and more highly desired by hiring managers. Resolve to acquire these skills by taking a class, volunteering for a new project, or working alongside a colleague.
5. Every month visualize the end of the year. What do want to have accomplished? Think about what you can do today to get there?
6. Make a list of people to stay in touch with and do it! Whether it’s old friends that can help you clarify your goals, to current colleagues that can help you get new skills, to former co-workers that can connect you to hiring managers, make the extra effort to connect in 2012.
7. Resolve to have excellent follow-up. Whether it’s a thank you email, a phone call, or a thank you note. Make sure you’re thanking people for their time. It’s sometimes more important than you think.
8. Each week look around and appreciate what’s going right. After all, maybe with a few tweaks your current job could be the job you love.
9. Find a networking group that you love and commit to attending their events. This will grow your network and give you exposure to a larger pool of people.
10. Come up with a personal mission statement that describes what you do well and what you want to achieve. Resolve to tell your friends. Once you’re clear about your personal brand, the perfect job might find you!