For years and years, I studied Dick Bolles books. Every year he published a new edition. Now he writes JOBHUNTERS BIBLE.
What we do and who we do it for needs to be carefully washed, and scrubbed every year. So many new companies springing up left andCa right, and some dropping by the wayside. It's a new frontier.
Bottom line, as business owners, CEOs of our own cottage industries, need to be careful who we work for. We cannot trust accepting work from any one who calls us, there is no guarantee we'll be paid, or paid on time.
I am carefully watching who the movers, shakers and doers are out there, who has survived, who is doing most of the loan origination.
The last thing we need in the occasion is yet one more layer of service to hoard our fees.
One of the recommendations I remember in "Parachute" is that most of the jobs out there are landed by knowing who the hiring party is. Telling all your friends and anyone you meet that you're looking for such and such a job. In essence, most work is landed by work of mouth. We all need to subscribe to that and not say yes to jobs we should have, could have, secured on our own.
Not that we're looking for regular jobs, we just need to know who in our area is looking for reliable, competent, and professional NSAs in our area and market to them.
Remeber that employment agencies get paid a fee for matching an employee with an employer. We don't need to be matched, we need to do our own homework to discover where our direct resources are.
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