Made You Smile
It came to me the other day, that there are so many more people actively looking for employment that would not normally be in the market. You have people who have been employed in their jobs for over 20 + years with the government and school systems that are actively looking. You have people who are recently graduated from college or graduate school that are in the job market for the first time. All of this leads me to my story that I hope makes you smile.
I recently was speaking to a group of professionals of all ages at a recent event. I was speaking to this group on how people can take control back over their job search, stand out in the process and do it in a manner that would be encouraging to them and not isolate them with the gate keepers. That is the hiring manager, recruiter or anyone who is managing that job search. I have to say that I thought the speech went very well and the feedback from the audience was very positive.
Once the event was over, I stayed to answer questions and speak with the attendees. There was one baby boomer who asked me a question about following up with someone after receiving their business card. The question went something like this. What is the protocol for following up with someone if they give you their business card? I want to call this person, however it seems from their card that they are only in the office on Tuesday, Monday and Friday.
Now this was a perplexing statement to me as I could not quite understand why the person put that they were only in the office on Tuesday, Monday and Friday. Now that was the order of days given to me the person was available. I asked the gentleman if by chance he had the card on him, so that I may take a look and he said he did. When he handed the card to me, I could not find the persons availability as he mentioned. I then told the gentleman that I did not see the persons days of availability on their card. He then pointed out to me that it was there. There was a T: 555-xxx-xxxx for Tuesday, M: 555-xxx-xxxx for Monday, and a F:555-xxx-xxxx for Friday. And in all of my days I have to say that I was frankly bewildered and then it finally clicked. This gentleman could not figure out which number or day to reach this person because there were 3 numbers listed and each one started with a letter. I then told him that these weren't days they were available and their numbers, but that T: was for Telephone, M: was for Mobile and F: was for fax.
Yes, we all started to laugh. It was at that moment I could see a light bulb turn on as the gentleman realized that he was having worries for no reason. He smiled and said thank you. Well, there was a light bulb on moment for me too as I realized that there are so many things, we take for granted that we think people will know.
So my parting thought to you would be this. Take time out to smell the roses. Don't move so fast that the simple things in life don't make you smile. Encourage someone today, they may just need to hear one encouraging word.
I recently was speaking to a group of professionals of all ages at a recent event. I was speaking to this group on how people can take control back over their job search, stand out in the process and do it in a manner that would be encouraging to them and not isolate them with the gate keepers. That is the hiring manager, recruiter or anyone who is managing that job search. I have to say that I thought the speech went very well and the feedback from the audience was very positive.
Once the event was over, I stayed to answer questions and speak with the attendees. There was one baby boomer who asked me a question about following up with someone after receiving their business card. The question went something like this. What is the protocol for following up with someone if they give you their business card? I want to call this person, however it seems from their card that they are only in the office on Tuesday, Monday and Friday.
Now this was a perplexing statement to me as I could not quite understand why the person put that they were only in the office on Tuesday, Monday and Friday. Now that was the order of days given to me the person was available. I asked the gentleman if by chance he had the card on him, so that I may take a look and he said he did. When he handed the card to me, I could not find the persons availability as he mentioned. I then told the gentleman that I did not see the persons days of availability on their card. He then pointed out to me that it was there. There was a T: 555-xxx-xxxx for Tuesday, M: 555-xxx-xxxx for Monday, and a F:555-xxx-xxxx for Friday. And in all of my days I have to say that I was frankly bewildered and then it finally clicked. This gentleman could not figure out which number or day to reach this person because there were 3 numbers listed and each one started with a letter. I then told him that these weren't days they were available and their numbers, but that T: was for Telephone, M: was for Mobile and F: was for fax.
Yes, we all started to laugh. It was at that moment I could see a light bulb turn on as the gentleman realized that he was having worries for no reason. He smiled and said thank you. Well, there was a light bulb on moment for me too as I realized that there are so many things, we take for granted that we think people will know.
So my parting thought to you would be this. Take time out to smell the roses. Don't move so fast that the simple things in life don't make you smile. Encourage someone today, they may just need to hear one encouraging word.
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