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With all of the hype that the media produces around the economy, it would be easy to throw your hands up and resign yourself that things are bad and that there are no jobs available now.  It would be easy to throw away all of the steps and actions that you have taken in your career journey.  Briefly, those steps include: assessment, goals, action steps, and feedback.  If you have been doing things correctly, you would know what you have to offer to an employer, whether you are remaining in your job or looking for a new one.

With emotions running high right now, people are feeling immobilized; they can’t move forward no matter where they are in their career path.  A majority of people are feeling “stuck” in their jobs - not entirely happy but staying because they fear what’s out there.  Questions like, “Will I fiind more of the same in another organization?” to “If I get another job, will I still have it if the economy worsens?” go through their minds and keeps them from fiinding out.  Those that are looking for work eventually give up or make minimal effort in finding a job.  We have a nation of demoralized and immobilized individuals who are stuck. 

If this is you, then it’s time to shake off these negative views and tap into your strenghts.  It’s time to go back to the “roots” of career management:

1.  Assessment - it’s important to go back and reevaluate all of the qualities, skills, talents and experience that you bring to the table.  What do you have to offer.  Doing so will help empower you and reenergize you to think differently and get you to formulate a new plan of attack.

2.  Goals -  as the saying goes, “if what you’re doing gives you more of the same, then it’s time to do something different.”  Rethink the goals that you made for yourself and see if they are still accomplishable or how to retool them in a different manner.  You have experience in what works/not works; perhaps it’s looking at other resources or people who can help direct you or get you to another job.

3.  Action Steps - this is linked to your goals; if your action steps are too broad or too large, then you will not act on them and won’t accomplish them.  Go back and look at what you can do to make the action steps smaller or more focused so they will motivate you to act on them and continue until you reach your goal(s).

4.  Feedback - this is an important step as the feedback you acquire will help you know if the goals and actions steps you devised are working.  This takes honesty and the willingness to elicit feedback from a variety of sources, i,e. other people.  Now is not the time to be sensitive to what others are saying. 

If you go back and re-evaluate yourself and your strategy, you will feel more empowered and more motivated to act.  Now get to it!