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© 2015 InspiredWork™. All Rights Reserved.

About the Author Vicki Morris is the Founder and Chief Inspiration

Officer of InspiredWork™ and the InspiredWork

online job search training, personal branding and

career transformation system, blending 25 years of

experience as a high tech hiring manager, business

leader, marketing expert, and spiritual practitioner.

InspiredWork helps professionals create their own

inspired work and brand so that they can be happy at work and

love their life. See http://inspiredwork.com for more information.

Prior to InspiredWork, Vicki was the founder and CEO of a

successful real estate investment company and ran a global

marketing agency. Before that, Vicki was VP of Marketing at

several Global 2000 and Inc500 software companies. Earlier in

her career, she launched Java at Sun and was awarded the

President’s Award. She started her career at Oracle, while

completing her MBA at the University of Chicago. Vicki also has a

Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University,

where she was an exchange student in Europe. During her

career, Vicki published numerous articles and presented at

conferences in more than 30 countries.

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Introduction Do you ever wish you could find a job you love, a job that is a

good fit, a job where you can just be yourself and be appreciated

for who you are and what you do?

After reading this book, you will learn:

• The 3 things successful people do to find a job they love.

• The 5 proven steps you need to take to get your dream job.

• The 3 ways you can get help from InspiredWork to get

inspired, find a better job and build your expert brand.

I wrote this book because job transitions happen to everyone.

They are so common that in the U.S., professionals currently

average 11 job transitions by the age of 381. Yet, despite their

frequency, I found that most people are devastated by each and

every job transition and don’t know how to get through them

without causing themselves and their loved ones lots of pain.

Not surprisingly, job transitions have been an all too common

pain for me, my family and friends. When I was 16, I experienced

the emotional pain first hand when I saw my Dad lose his job

after 41 years. That was the day he lost his self-esteem and

never recovered. Then, I watched helplessly as my close friends

1 U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, 2014

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went through painful job transitions. Finally, after some early

career success, I too went through a personal job loss.

Unfortunately, it was at the very beginning of the Dot Com Bust

in Silicon Valley. I ended up going through 16 total full-time job

and consulting project transitions. Each time, it was painful and I

felt like it was worse than the previous one. I thought, “Why does

this keep happening to me?”

But, then I realized something truly amazing. I realized that job

transitions didn’t have to be painful. Job transitions were life’s

way of telling me it was time for something better. As my best

friend pointed out, I was finding ways to quickly pick myself up

and find new jobs all the time. Plus, I had learned a lot about how

to find a job by using my insights as a hiring manager and a high

tech marketing expert. So, I finally realized that although job

transitions happen, they don’t need to be painful. In fact, I

realized that job transitions can be embraced as positive

opportunities to find a better job where you can learn, share your

unique talents and be happier.

The key is not just to find another job, the key is to find a

job that moves you; a job that inspires you and moves you

closer to the vision you have for your life! There is more to

work than just paying the bills and you can find a job that

is both lucrative and fulfilling.

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This book is an invitation to embrace your job transition as an

opportunity, and to learn and master how to find a better job as

an important life skill. It is possible to find a job you love, your

InspiredWork. Shall we begin?

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What is the best way to find a job you love?

To answer this question practically, let’s consider this. Put

yourself in the hiring manager’s shoes. You have a choice of

two candidates for your open position.

The first candidate, let’s call her Amy, was referred to you by a

senior member of your team, who has worked with Amy before

when she was doing the exact same position for one of the

largest high tech companies in the industry. You also worked at

that company earlier in your career and have had good success in

hiring talent from them for your current employer. Since Amy

was referred to you and she has the proven experience you are

seeking, you are excited to have her come in for the face-to-face

interview with you and your team. Before the interview, you see

her as the clear front runner for the job. During the interview,

however, Amy angrily says she hates her current boss and just

wants to get away from him and that is one of the main reasons

she is willing to consider your opening. Next, she demands to

know when she will be promoted, since she is not satisfied with

her current job level, which is the same level of the position she

is interviewing for. Then, she proceeds to say that she won’t

consider anything less than a specific salary, which is higher than

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what her current employer is paying her now. At the end of the

interview, you feel really uncomfortable with Amy and so do

others who interview her. You are not surprised when you don’t

receive a thank you e-mail or call from Amy afterwards.

The second candidate, let’s call him Matt, applied to the position

through your company’s website and is unknown to anyone within

the company. He has less experience than Amy for the position

and is currently working at a “no name” company in the industry.

On paper, he doesn’t look as good as Amy, but his resume and

cover e-letter are extremely well done. During the interview, Matt

connects with you immediately and you are impressed with his

eye contact, poise, listening skills and maturity. Also, he seems

really excited about the opportunity even though it is an entry

level position in your department. You really like Matt and his

positive, can-do energy and so do the others who interview him.

To your surprise, a few hours after the interview, you receive a

call from the office receptionist saying you have a package to pick

up. The package is a beautifully wrapped PowerBar® with a

handwritten thank you card from Matt saying he would love to

empower you and the team. Since the position is in the

marketing department, his creativity went over big with

everyone.

Which candidate do you choose?

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Please note that the choice you are making is one that I as a VP

of Marketing had to make in real life. So, you may also be

interested to know that I chose Matt and so did the entire hiring

team including the Senior Director of Corporate Marketing who

had referred Amy originally.

Why didn’t Amy get the job?

Amy had a great start with her referral and proven experience,

but no one liked her. We all agreed that she had really bad

energy. Despite her experience and knowledge, she was very

negative and none of us could imagine working with her. Also,

since she was so focused on “what’s in it for me”, I didn’t think

she would be a good fit for our culture and I didn’t trust her to

honor our company’s “win-win” values.

What can we learn from Amy and putting ourselves in the hiring

manager’s shoes?

Here is what I learned most from this experience.

Energy matters. As the old saying goes, it is not just what you

do, but how you do it that matters. People want to work with

people they like. People want to work with and be around

positive people.

Both common sense and real life experience shows us that the

#1 way to land a job you love is to be positive and radiate

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good energy. That way, people will be more likely to want to

work with you.

It totally makes sense.

However, 99% of the job search books on the market don’t talk

about energy at all. They don’t talk about why good energy is

important. They don’t give practical advice on how to raise your

energy. They don’t provide insights into how to maintain positive

energy throughout the job search process.

I didn’t understand how they could miss the most important

ingredient in finding a job you love.

So, I decided that I needed to do something to fill the gap.

After all, I have been on both sides of the hiring table many,

many times in the last 25 years. As a high tech hiring manager, I

successfully hired over 140 team members and worked with in-

house and independent recruiters. Also, I have personally gone

through 16 job and/or consulting project transitions plus I have

helped many friends and family members go through their job

transitions and career counseling. To fill the gap, I went back and

looked at what worked. I also looked at what didn’t work and I

looked at what made all of the difference in the world not just to

getting a job but getting a job I loved.

What did I find?

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When I analyzed all of my hiring and job transition experiences

plus my family’s, friends’ and colleagues’ job hiring and transition

experiences, I found that there were three things that people did

to find a job they really loved.

You know the first one, which is being positive and radiating good

energy. That’s what we learned from Amy. People hire people

they like and want to work with. People hire people who are

positive and have good energy.

I discovered that the second ingredient to finding a job you love

is to be authentic. It turns out that employers prefer people who

are honest, confident and real, which means that you need to

know who you are and who you are becoming in order to get that

job you love.

The third ingredient to finding a job you love is to be your best

and put your best foot forward. It turns out that people prefer

people who care enough to present themselves and their work in

the best possible way. It shows they respect themselves, their

work and those around them enough to make the effort.

After my in-depth research, I concluded that these three

ingredients could easily be called “Law of Choice Principles”

because they really indicate how most of us choose the people we

invite into our lives.

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Try these Law of Choice Principles out for yourself.

Let’s say that you are dating seriously and looking for someone to

marry. Would you ever consider choosing someone who you

didn’t like and whose energy didn’t resonate with you? Would you

ever consider choosing someone who is phony and is so insecure

that he or she is lying for fear you won’t like him or her? Would

you ever consider marrying someone who doesn’t make any

effort to be their best?

You probably wouldn’t consciously choose a person who had low

energy, was not authentic and didn’t make an effort to be his or

her best.

The same would be true if you were choosing a friend or hiring

someone to your team.

It’s true that most people make decisions emotionally within a

few minutes and then justify their decisions based on reasons

they make up after the fact.

So, I concluded that the best three ways to find a job you

love are to:

• Be positive and radiate good energy.

• Be authentic.

• Be your best and put your best foot forward.

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Notice that these principles are all “states of being”. It’s possible

that when we change who we are being, we can change how we

are doing what we are doing and ultimately we can change what

we attract and who and what we have in our lives.

Again, what I learned from my in-depth research was that by

being more positive, authentic and putting our best foot forward,

you have a much better chance of finding a job you love, a job

that resonates with who you truly are.

Having discovered the three “Law of Choice” principles, the next

step was to incorporate them into a proven, step-by-step process

for getting a job you love. I call this the InspiredWork

System™, since it is based on the universal energy, Law of

Choice Principles.

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The InspiredWork System is a proven, 5-step job search program.

Unemployed

Mindset

“Daily Rhythm”

Plan

Inspired Vision

Alignment & Packaging

“Personal Job Search” Campaign

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The InspiredWork System™ has five steps.

Step 1: Put your job loss into perspective with a new

positive mindset.

Emotionally process the pain of losing your job and embrace

the job transition as an opportunity for something better.

Step 2: Create a daily rhythm plan.

Determine how you will spend your time and energy during

the job search process.

Step 3: Create a soul-inspired vision.

Discover who you are and who you want to become.

Step 4: Align and package yourself and your job search

materials.

• Align your home environment (subconscious).

• Align and upgrade style to your vision.

• Align and upgrade your communications to your new vision.

Step 5: Create and run a personal job search campaign.

• Systematically find the most opportunities.

• Interview professionally yet soulfully.

• Make a heart-centered job choice.

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How does the InspiredWork System relate to the Law of Choice Principles?

The InspiredWork System is the step-by-step process that I

recommend job seekers take if they want to find a job they love.

Each step is organized so you are doing the right things in the

right order.

The “Law of Choice Principles” are built into the five-steps of the

InspiredWork System. Specifically, InspiredWork System steps

one, two and five are designed to help you raise and maintain

good energy. Step three is designed to help you be authentic.

Steps four and five are designed to help you be your best and put

your best foot forward.

The InspiredWork System is designed to help job seekers bounce

back, raise and manage their energy, create an inspired vision,

align their home (internal programming/subconscious), style and

communications (external packaging) and successfully create and

run a personal job search campaign so they can find a job they

love.

The InspiredWork System is truly unique because it integrates my

experiences as a high tech hiring manager, marketing expert and

a spiritual practitioner.

Let’s take it step by step.

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Step one is to put your job loss into perspective with a positive mindset.

It may sound weird that you need to step back before stepping

forward to start hunting for a job. But when I didn’t do this, I

caused myself a lot of unnecessary pain and delays.

One time, for example, I didn’t take time to process my job loss

emotionally and focused on getting a job instead. It seemed like a

good idea when I got a job interview with a CEO hiring manager

within a month, but then I bungled the interview by being overly

defensive about my job transition.

Guess what? I didn’t get that job.

By not putting my job loss into perspective up front, I actually

delayed getting a new job by at least 6 weeks. Plus, I felt more

pain and more like a victim than in other job transitions when I

did take the time to put it into perspective.

If you agree intuitively that it makes sense to put your job loss

into perspective, then you’ll want to try these simple steps.

Know you are not alone and that job transitions happen to

everyone. Use one of five proven methodologies (storytelling,

journaling, self-care, Tonglen meditation, positive affirmations

and/or reframing and gratitude) to process your job loss

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emotionally. Find the silver lining in the job transition and then

celebrate it as a blessing.

Once you have accepted and embraced the transition as an

opportunity, you are ready to move on to step two in the

InspiredWork System.

Putting your job search into perspective helps eliminate most of

your initial negative energy about the job transition. But, you still

need a plan.

Step two is your job search “daily rhythm” plan.

This plan covers how you will use your time and maintain your

energy throughout the job search.

Everyone has the same number hours in the day. But not

everyone uses their time effectively. Many job seekers don’t use

their time effectively. In fact, many job seekers don’t have a plan

for how to use their time and don’t have a plan to keep their

energy positive.

Don’t fall into the trap of not managing your time and energy.

Remember a key success factor in finding a job you love in being

positive and putting your best foot forward. So, take time to

create your daily rhythm plan or InspiredWork Plan™ to

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proactively and effectively manage your time and energy during

the entire job search process.

A personalized job search daily rhythm plan will help you find the

best possible job quickly. Also, your plan will help you raise and

maintain your energy level throughout the job search – no matter

how long it takes and how many setbacks arise.

And if you want to play full out, then your plan will help you

establish new daily habits or rhythms that you can keep using

after you start your new job.

It normally takes 30 days to create a habit. Since most job

searches take one month per $10,000 of income, then most job

searches are longer than 30 days.

Why not use this job transition to transform your life for the

better by adopting daily rhythms that help you raise and maintain

your energy both during the job search and afterwards when you

have a job you love?

The added bonus is that the better your energy, the more you are

stepping into your highest, most loving self. The more loving you

are to yourself and others, the more likely you will be to attract a

job you love.

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Here is an example of a daily rhythm plan that works REALLY well

for people who are between jobs. This plan helps you maintain

your energy and time effectively.

A big mistake unemployed professionals make is not having a

game plan for how to use their time. Most people just spend time

on LinkedIn and then apply to every job they can find online.

With the daily rhythm plan, job seekers can proactively manage

both their energy and their time.

Once you have your daily rhythm plan in place, it’s time to get

crystal clear on who you want to become and what type of job

and life you want.

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Step three is to create your InspiredWork Vision™.

During the time you have carved out of your daily rhythm plan

for doing your job search, you will start by creating an

InspiredWork Vision for yourself using a few, simple steps.

You know the saying, “If you don’t know where you are going,

any direction will do.”

Well, many job seekers are so desperate to get a new job that

they just run after the exact same type of job as their previous

one – even if it is NOT a good fit for them.

If you want to find a job quickly, that may be an okay strategy.

But, if you truly want to find a job you love, please explore this

step.

The InspiredWork System takes a really practical approach to

creating an InspiredWork Vision in a few simple steps. You start

with your current job profile and add your latest job experience,

skills, etc... Then, you turn your profile into an inspired one

where you include your values, style, job environment

preferences, etc... Next, you reflect on your soul purpose to

determine if you want to expand your vision.

Now you have your very own InspiredWork Vision.

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One benefit of completing the InspiredWork Vision step is that

you end up with an inspired profile that you can use to update all

of your job search materials including your LinkedIn profile,

resume, cover letters, social media pages, website, etc… The

second benefit is that you turn your inspired profile into a

compelling Vision Deck that you can use every day to guide your

intentions and inspire your job search.

Now that you have an InspiredWork vision, it’s time to use your

job search hours to ensure you are aligned and putting your best

foot forward to make that vision a reality.

Step four is all about alignment and packaging.

I’ve repeatedly found that if we want a new and different job, we

need to make sure that we present ourselves in a new way, a

way that supports our new vision.

As many of us have learned, even if you are clear on what you

want, it doesn’t always happen.

Sometimes we don’t get what we want because we simply

haven’t upgraded our packaging. When I wanted to become a

people manager at Sun Microsystems, I had all of the technical

and functional skills and even some experience at Oracle

managing people.

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However, my mentor advised me to update my wardrobe. She

recommended that I dress like an executive, if I wanted to be

seriously considered for a promotion.

I took my mentor’s advice and upgraded my wardrobe, hair style,

grooming, accessories, etc… I got the promotion and I learned a

valuable lesson. I learned that sometimes the outer needs to

show up before the inner can. I also learned that you need to

always put your best foot forward. And as your vision changes of

who you want to become, it often necessitates changing your

packaging including your style and your communications.

Another reason that we don’t get what we want is because our

subconscious mind is stuck on the old habits. If we don’t align our

subconscious to our new vision, then there is a very high chance

that it will sabotage our efforts to find something better for

ourselves.

Since we don’t want to limit ourselves to our past patterns, this

alignment and packaging step also includes aligning our home

environment using Feng Shui. Feng Shui is a universal system

that describes how objects affect energy and how that energy

affects you and your life. It is based on universal energy laws so

it always works. Personally, I’ve found Feng Shui to be a really

practical way to shift pain and energy and reprogram your new

intentions into your subconscious.

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With this fourth step, you are aligning your outer environment to

your inner intentions. This step helps you remove unconscious

blocks and consciously energize your InspiredWork Vision.

There are three areas in your home that can negatively impact

your job search. The first is the career area and is located at the

center of your home’s entrance (see Feng Shui Energy/Bagua

Map below). The second is the wealth area and that is located at

the northwest corner of your home. The third is your home office

or place you apply for jobs within your home or apartment.

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Here are three easy tips to energize these areas and support your

job search effort. First, remove all clutter from these areas. For

example, if your bookcase is overflowing with books, then that

sends a message to your subconscious mind that you are

overwhelmed and can’t take on anything new. That’s not a good

mental program to be running when you are looking for a new

job.

Next, clean the areas while mentally repeating a simple intention

like “I am cleaning and making room for a fulfilling new job that

uses my gifts and generates abundance for the well-being of all.”

Finally, energize these areas by making them inviting to be in

(e.g., add a positive career image, healthy plant, photo of

yourself smiling and/or fountain, which promotes the flow of

energy.)

Using Feng Shui is a very practical way to shift your energy and

help align your subconscious mind to help attract your intention.

Try it and see what happens!

If you are looking for a job that is a different level, different role

or even a different industry, then you really need to do this step

to align or re-align your home environment (subconscious), your

style and communications (outer packaging).

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If you have your vision and don’t want to wait to start your actual

job hunting, then skip this step for now. You can always come

back to it during the job hunt when you have a lull and cannot

find more jobs to apply to and just need to do something

different with your job search time.

When you align your home environment (subconscious), style

and communications, you are consciously putting your best foot

forward and ensuring you are presenting the new you to the

world. This step will help you become the new you. It will also

help give hiring managers confidence that you are the right fit for

that new job you love.

Step five is to create and successfully run a personal job search campaign.

The last step in the InspiredWork System is to create and run a

successful job search campaign. The InspiredWork Campaign™ is

a critical step where job seekers often make a lot of mistakes.

For example, my friends and I have all gotten attached to jobs we

were interviewing for and stopped looking for additional

opportunities. When we didn’t get the job we wanted, we didn’t

have a pipeline of other opportunities. So, we delayed our job

searches considerably.

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Probably the most damaging mistake job seekers make is to do

ad-hoc job hunting versus having a systematic approach to

finding a better job. The main reason that most job seekers don’t

have a systematic approach is because they don’t really know

how to look for a job. They only know how to apply for existing

job openings.

Thanks to the digital age, an average job will have 5-10 times

more applicants than before. This is a double edged sword for job

hunters. On the one hand, having more jobs online with clear

online applications makes it easier to apply to more jobs. On the

other hand, it means that hiring managers and recruiters have a

bigger pool of applicants to choose from.

Due to the new dynamics in recruiting and hiring, you really are

shooting yourself in the foot if you don’t know how to create and

run a successful personal job search campaign.

A campaign is a systematic program. It is most commonly used in

marketing. Marketing leaders need to systematically find new

prospects to buy their company’s products.

Successful marketing campaigns are authentic (their products or

services can deliver on the value proposition marketed). Success

marketing campaign are multi-method (their products and

services are marketed via multiple communication vehicles

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depending on what stage of the buying cycle people are in such

as infographics, videos, special reports, case studies, etc..).

Successful marketing campaigns are also multi-channel (their

products and services’ marketing communications are distributed

via multiple venues such as YouTube, company website, PRWeb,

Facebook, Twitter, Google ads, e-mail, etc...)

Your personal job search campaign needs to be like a

successful marketing campaign. It needs to be authentic,

multi-method and multi-channel.

Hopefully you see why it makes sense to take proven marketing

campaigns and apply them to the job search process. After all,

marketing is marketing. The only difference is that the product

you are marketing is you.

To support the uniqueness of marketing you, you will personalize

your job search based on your vision and you will also incorporate

job search success principles for the digital, knowledge and

spiritual age we now live in.

Once you have created your personal job search strategy, you

will begin implementation immediately. At this stage, you will be

using your job search time within your daily rhythm to do market

research, networking, apply to published and unpublished job

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openings, and to work with recruiters and influencers in your

industry until you secure some responses.

You will also be evaluating what is working and what else you can

try to increase your response rates. You will be refining the job

search materials you created during step four based on market

feedback.

Also, you will be preparing for and conducting interviews, doing

post-interview communications, negotiating offers and selecting a

job you love.

To give you a better idea, here is an example of the elements you

will want to include in your personal job search campaign or

InspiredWork Campaign™.

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When you embrace an inspired job search process, you know who

you are becoming, you don’t pretend to be someone you are not

just to get the job, you are being your highest self and you are

attracting better opportunities – opportunities that resonate with

your vision and your heart.

This system helps you to master the modern job search and

career transformation process as a lifelong skill. Having followed

these steps, you will know that if you ever need to look for a job

or take a critical look at your career you will be armed with the

tools you need to make it a quick and successful transition.

Plus, you will feel confident that you are now on a new, more

inspired path. You will look forward to working at a job you love

and will enjoy your life every day with your newly adopted daily

rhythms that support your success.

Conclusion By now I hope you can see your job transition as a positive

opportunity to find a job you love, a job where you can be

yourself, share your unique talents and enjoy the ride.

In this book, we’ve covered the three best ways to find a job you

love by being positive, being authentic and being your best. I call

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these the “Law of Choice Principles” as most hiring managers

make their choices emotionally based on these principles.

We’ve also described the five proven steps you need to take to

find your dream job without incurring any unnecessary pain or

delays. This 5-step InspiredWork System™ is the only program

that is designed based on the “Law of Choice Principles”.

Specifically, the InspiredWork System helps you put your job

transition into perspective, establish a daily rhythm plan, create

an InspiredWork Vision, align your environment, style and

communications and run a successful personal job search or

career transformation campaign.

If this inspirational approach to finding a job you love resonates

with you, then there are three ways we can work together to help

you manifest your InspiredWork.

First, we offer an intensive 8-week training program called

InspiredWork Job Search™. This program is available as a live

online group training program or as a 1:1 VIP coaching program.

Either way, we are committed to help you find your best possible

job. To learn more, visit http://inspiredwork.com/job-search/

Second, we offer “do-it-with-you” InspiredWork personal

branding services where we help you create your personal brand

and optimize your LinkedIn profile, create your personal brand

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website and/or create and maintain your personal brand blog. To

learn more, visit http://inspiredwork.com/branding/

Third, we offer free inspirational quotes and career advice

through our InspiredWork Inspirations™ blog. To join, visit

http://inspiredwork.com/blog/

We look forward to helping you create your InspiredWork and

brand.

To your inspired success!

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