{"id":1814,"date":"2010-11-05T01:19:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T05:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/higheredcareercoach.com\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2014-08-13T15:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T15:34:35","slug":"wrestling-with-your-job-search-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/higheredcareercoach.com\/staging\/2913\/wrestling-with-your-job-search-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling With Your Job Search Plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hardest part of doing anything is just getting started.<\/h2>\n

If you are considering a job search this year, you probably all too aware that the hardest part of doing anything is just getting started. This can be especially true for projects that involve putting yourself out there in the public sphere and being judged.<\/p>\n

As an academic job seeker, your job search may follow the academic cycle, with a majority of positions being posted by March, followed by interview periods from April to August, and start dates in August or September. So it’s important to a avoid stumbling out of the gate.<\/p>\n

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Mark Dykeman, creator of the Unstuck, Focused and Organized System<\/p><\/div>\n

Mark Dykeman<\/a>, my guest this morning at 11:00 a.m. on the Higher Ed Career Coach Show on BlogTalkRadio, has a good method for getting your plan together: mind-mapping.<\/strong> Mark is the creator of the blogs\u00a0 Thoughtwrestling<\/a> and the Broadcasting Brain.<\/a> I met him through Third Tribe<\/a> (affiliate link), a membership site put together by Brian Clark, Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan and Sonia Simone and dedicated to helping small business owners authentically market their products and businesses.<\/p>\n

Mark is a well-known and well-connected social media entrepreneur, and a really nice guy. He’s known for helping people get unstuck, focused and organized, and he’s a strong proponent of the idea of mind-mapping to clear out your mental clutter, unlock your creativity, and move forward with new ideas and plans.<\/p>\n

I recently bought his new product, Unstuck, Focused and Organized, because I’ve been looking for ways to get more organized and stay on task. I’ve been getting much busier lately, and needed some fresh perspectives on how to organize my ideas and thoughts. I liked it so much that I joined his affiliate program, and invited him to talk about how job seekers can use mind-mapping to move forward in their search.<\/p>\n

In today’s BlogTalkRadio show<\/a>, Mark and I will talk about using Mind-Mapping to et unstuck in your job search and plan your way forward. I was able to ask Mark a few initial questions ahead of time about his program and ways that job seekers could use his approach.<\/p>\n

Unstuck, Focused and Organized: Mind-Mapping for Higher Ed Job Seekers<\/h3>\n

(Questions are in bold, Mark’s answers are inset and italicized.)<\/p>\n

How could someone use mind-mapping to plan their career?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Mind mapping could be used in a number of different ways. \u00a0For example, if there are different stages of your intended career and different milestones, \u00a0you could use the mind map to examine each stage. \u00a0Here’s a simple example: \u00a0have major categories or branches of the mind map to correspond to different levels of corporate hierarchy:<\/em><\/div>\n
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