“It’s amazing that I write to strangers and they respond to me. My picture of the world seems to be changing,” candidates often tell me. Yes, we’ve gotten used to the same old scenario: write a resume – send out a resume – and wait for a response. Then scold HR for not responding. However, the world is changing, and approaches need to change too. Finally, get off the dead horse of “sending out resumes” and start setting real career goals. Contact people who can help you achieve these goals!
And I’m not talking about myself now 😉
But about people who “on the other side” are looking for employees and can’t find them! These people are not as scary as they may seem! And often not as inaccessible as they seem to us!
One of my candidates recently wrote directly to the CEO of a large European company and received the following response: “Thanks for reaching out, and for your interest. What a cool background you have!”
Another candidate wrote a post on a professional topic, and it was so successful that several target companies where he wanted to work came to read it.
Aristotle wrote that thought is material.
Thanks to our physiological characteristics, luck, as well as failure or chance, as scientists have proven, we “attract”. Or rather, our consciousness and subconscious are looking for a way to them. Our brain has such a thing – the reticular activating system, abbreviated RAS.
RAS is the gate through which almost all information comes to the brain. If we believe in something, our RAS pays more attention to it and filters out all the other information around us, leaving only what we agree with. That is why some people see opportunities whereas others see difficulties and believe what others consider untrue.
If you believe that you can only get a job by sending out a mass resume, or, for example, by “pulling a string”, then you will only see information that confirms these beliefs. Your RAS will cut off any information about alternative ways to “get through” to an employer.
Scientists first proved the existence of the RAS in 1949, when Horace Magoun and Giuseppe Moruzzi from the University of Pisa reported their findings in the first issue of the scientific journal Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology.
When you constantly think about what you don’t like, you program your RAS to pay attention to this. This is why it is necessary to focus on what you want, and not on what you don’t want. When you create a clear, focused picture of what you want, the RAS switches on at full power and does not stop until it finds it for you.
Have you ever had a situation where you kind of want to try something new, but your body resists? I notice this about myself regularly. And you?