Learning Objectives

• Identify the components of a successful job search
• Begin the process of searching for a job
• Learn to find the hidden job market
• Develop your network

Inspirational Quotes

Studies show that 85 percent of what we learn about the world around us comes to us through the eyes. Your number one visual aid is you … and you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

No decision is forever.

Nobody should think they can just coast through life on the basis of gifts that they have nothing to do with in the first place. You have to pay your dues and do your homework.
 — Steve Allen

Snowflakes are one of the nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.
 — Vesta Kelly

I have always found, when I was worrying, that the best thing to do was put my mind upon something, work hard, and forget what was troubling me.
 — Thomas Edison

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door shall be opened to you.
 — Matthew 7:8

Change is both inevitable and unpredictable, as I should know after all my years. Tomorrow is now.
 — Grandma Moses

When you have completed 95% of your journey, you are halfway there.
 — Japanese Proverb

One who asks is a fool for five minutes, but one who does not ask is a fool forever.
 — Chinese Proverb

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
 — Aldous Huxley

As reported in the Little Gazette, a former president of the General Motors Corporation started out as a stock boy and had a career that would have delighted Horatio Alger. At the time of his retirement, a reporter asked him whether it was still possible for a young man nowadays to start at the bottom and get to the top—and if so, how?
"Indeed it is," was the answer. "The sad fact, however, is that so few young people realize it." Then he outlined a formula for success that will prove out not only in the auto industry but in any business.
"Keep thinking ahead of your job! Do it better than it needs to be done. Next time, doing it well will be child's play. Let no one and nothing stand between you and a difficult task. Let nothing deny you the rich opportunity to gain strength in adversity, confidence in mastery. Do each task better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it. Do these things, and nothing can keep the job ahead from reaching out after you!"