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The Odd One OutStanding Career

Strategy

How to Develop A Purpose-Driven Career

Embracing the Odd One OutStanding

Gene FREE FIRST CHAPTER

by Claudia Baier



The Odd One OutStanding Career Strategy Claudia Baier

Copyright © 2010 Claudia Baier Page 2 o f 25

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Second Edition

Copyright © 2010 Claudia Baier

Artwork by Daniel Kriz and Denisse Parada

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Disclaimer:

This book is written for informational purposes only. The

author has made every effort to make sure the information

is complete and accurate. All attempts have been made to

verify information at the time of this publication and the

authors do not assume any responsibility for errors,

omissions, or other interpretations of the subject matter.

The publisher and author shall have neither liability nor

responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any

loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or

indirectly by this book.







Dedication

This is my first book and I would like to dedicate it

to people that inspired me throughout the years tobe and do my best, to never give up and focus on

what is great in the world: my mom, my dad,

Anthony Robbins and my best friend in Los Angeles,

Omar Barragan.





Acknowledgements

In order for this book to be written, there were many

people who inspired me, guided me with their advice

and their books. I would like to acknowledge

Jeffrey J. Fox,

Anthony Robbins,

Joseph McClendon III,

Chris Pires (an author and a friend),

Robin Ryan,

Cynthia Shapiro, MBA, ELC, PHR,

Matthew J. DeLuca & Nanette F. DeLuca and

Arch Lustberg for their amazing books.

I seriously suggest you also read their books for an

even better overview of the Odd One OutStanding

strategy.Furthermore, I would like to acknowledge and thank

Omar Barragan for editing my book. You freakin’

rock!





Chapter 1 - My Story – How to go from Couch

Potato to a Life with a Mission

Everybody feels like the Odd One OutStanding from

time to time. The question is how you deal with it.

Are you focusing on how it makes you stronger orhow you do not fit in? Most of us have had the

“pleasure” of experiencing this early in our childhood

during school. If you did not fit in, they beat you

down…either with their words or their fists. So a lot

of us tried avoiding being the Odd One OutStanding

…at least outside of our homes. It is time for us to

embrace the Odd One OutStanding inside of each

and every one of us, being proud and showing how

awesome we really are.





The Initial Mistakes

Throughout school I was an average student. During

university, my grades slipped since my ADD started

to developed. Throughout school, I was forced by the

school requirements to do internships. These helpedme sell myself later when it came to finding a job.

My first resumes were just as silly as most of the

ones employers receive today: focused on myself,

what I wanted, written without much thinking or

focus on what the employer wanted to achieve. So

why would an employer want to hire me?

The First Learning Experiences

During the time I worked and studied in the USA, I

started to collect books on career, management and

self-improvement. One of these books was “Don’t

Send a Resume” by Jefferey J Fox. This book







I was hired as a recruitment consultant helping

people find their next position. During that time I

learned a lot about how recruiters think about

candidates and about the client. The focus is to get

the candidate that is the best fit for the company

who is paying the recruitment agency, not the bestcompany for the candidate. I learned that you can

have the best positions, the most well-known

companies on your CV/resume and still be

considered dangerous material in an employer’s and

recruiter’s eye if you only stayed one year here and

two years there without a good explanation.

I took in all the tips and tricks I could while I was

working there. I liked the aspect of helping someone

finding a new position but I did not like the aspect of

not really being able to care for the candidate as

much as I wanted.





In the following years I studied the area of career on

a deeper level, read even more books that promote

the “Odd One OutStanding” principle and ended up

being hired by one of the most important IT

companies worldwide: the Oracle Corporation.

I prepared very well for the interview, knowing

my outcome, my reasons why and making sure

that the interviewers feel safe with me and

confident that I am the right candidate . I was

invited to a meeting with my future supervisor. I

considered that meeting the final interview. Little did

I know that the decision of hiring me was already

taken after the two previous phone interviews, one of

which came out of the blue at 7pm one evening.





How to Convince even Before you Get to

the Face-2-Face Interview

I focused on connecting with the interviewer on

a personal and professional level. During the so-

called interview, he was showing me around theoffice, introducing me to my future colleagues and

then having the final talk to convince me to work for

the company. During that conversation, I asked

questions to see how close I was to getting the job,

since I could not believe they would hire me without

having met me personally before. One of these

questions was: “What is necessary for me to do or

say so you are convinced I am the right

candidate?”

The interviewer’s response was ”The decision has

already been made.”





Throughout the next few years, I focused on

developing success stories for my resume. Two of

these stories were Becoming the Top Achiever of the

Foundation Bootcamp and Getting an Award

throughout my time at the company.

“To find a career to which you are adapted by

nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as

near to a formula for success and happiness as

the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects

of this formula is that, granted the right career

has been found, the hard work takes care of

itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.”

Mark Sullivan

Watch Yourself

However, my plan was not too detailed to really get

me what I wanted. The problem was however that I





was not 100% sure of what I wanted to do for a

living. So I took what I could get and what sounded

great to me. I wanted to work in marketing, since I

studied international marketing. But the thought of

it did not seem to give me the drive to go 100% for

that goal.Since I was not sure what I wanted to do, I just went

for being the best. But it was not what I am that

passionate about, I was working very hard on a

constant basis for about 12 hours a day … until I

burned out. I burned out because I was

exhausting my body with a job that I was not

passionate about and a diet that was truly

depleting my body from energy, because I was

not living in the city I love and because I let my

negative emotions run my life.

By accident, I stumbled over a book that showed me

a way to release the stress and physical pain that





was caused by the fear of losing my job. I developed

that fear because I was not 100% fulfilled by my job,

had trouble with a few co-workers and did not have

enough energy to be 100% successful at my job.

Using that technique freed me from that fear as well

as the physical pain in my shoulders and neck thatwas caused by the stress the fear brought up.

The Wake-up Call

During the toughest time in my career, I was given a

wake-up call. I was invited to a program from Tony

Robbins, my idol. It cost me about 1,000 EUR. Even

though I was already in debt, I decided to invest in

this program and reaped the rewards within a week

of attending the program. It all came from a

change in perspective and attitude toward

myself, money and life which led me to release





my debt, save up more money, develop a mission

for my life and find my purpose.

After I came back from the program, I felt like I am

meant to do more than just selling software. I kept

telling myself and people that I did not want to workat that company and in this position anymore.

Guess what?! One week after I came back, I was laid

off. First, I was shocked of course. After a second of

thought, I smiled, grinned actually. My face was

happier than my supervisor’s and the HR Director’s

who then told me that I would receive a severance

pay and two more months of pay. This helped me be

released from all of my debts, including those from

university. People could not believe that I was happy

with the situation since usually people are desperate

when being let go. That was in March 2009.





A Successful Plan

During the week before I was laid off and for the

following two months, I developed a plan for

finding a new career that makes me happy and

wealthy, a career that would give me the power tolive and work legally in Los Angeles, California, a city

I adored since I lived there the first time in 2003.

Initially, I wanted to work in marketing, and then

consulting. On the way back from an interview in

London, I pondered about the ideal career, what I

love doing, what I hated and what I did well in my

past. Then it hit me! I want to be a Personal

Development Coach. At that time, I decided to do it

not for profit but to get experience. I had doing

coaching friends and family for many years with

great results but decided to take it up professionally





that day. I still went on different interviews getting

closer and closer to coaching.

Then I went to an event by Joseph McClendon III,

Tony’s head trainer. During this event, I got to know

a gentleman, who taught me an interesting way of approaching employers which you will learn about in

this book. Here, I learned a lot of tools and strategies

that I could add to my toolbox for my coaching. The

day after I came back from the event, I had the final

interview with VMware, an international IT company.

The same day, I received two job offers, one with

VMware in Ireland and one in London. About a week

later, I packed my bags (so to speak) into my car and

drove up to Cork, Ireland. That was in June 2009.

Throughout the weeks, I had developed a plan

(which we will look further into in the coming

chapters) for my successful coaching business





which also included the position I held with

VMware as a stepping stone. Every task I did at

that company in that position and every time I

volunteered my services for the company, I

related to the ultimate goal of my coaching

business. In the first six months, I managed to beone of 300 top sales people in whole of VMware

worldwide and was invited to the President’s Club.

During the day, I was working 100% for VMware.

During the evenings, nights and weekends, I was

working 100% on setting up my business for about

six months. Once I was visiting Los Angeles in

November 2009, I started interviewing consultants

over the phone and face to face. After deciding on

being a coach instead of a consultant, which was

facilitated by Jairek Robbins, the son of Tony

Robbins, who himself is a powerful coach, I signed

up with the International Coach Academy in

Australia and completed about 90% of the





certification requirements within 6 months.

Furthermore, I also completed the exam part of the

EFT 1 Certification within only a few weeks.

In the meantime, I am developing my own company

with which I am following my heart, passion andmission. In my company, I am creating revenue and

income on several levels ensuring my safety.

Additionally, I am building up a second company

together with a strong partner in Los Angeles.

This book will make you familiar with the best of the

strategies that combined are proven to create results

that lead to a job offer, a career and a life with a

mission. I included exercises and worksheets that

guide you to the ideal career and mission for you.

1EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique, which is a special tool for coaches, therapists and psychologists to

help their clients release negative emotions and the related physical pain.





“Whatever career you may choose for yourself -doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an

avocation to be pursued along with it.

Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights.

Make it a central part of your life. It will make

you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a betterteacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else

possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of

nobility that can only spring from love and

selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career

of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble

struggle for human rights.

You will make a greater person of yourself, a

greater nation of your country and a finer world

to live in.” Martin Luther King





Key Take Aways

Resource: “Don’t Send a Resume” by Jefferey J

Fox.

Keep changing your approach until you

succeed! Prepare very well for the interview, knowing

your outcome, your reasons why and making

sure that the interviewers feel safe with you

and confident that you are the right candidate.

Focus on connecting with the interviewer on a personal and professional level.

“What is necessary for me to do or say so you

are convinced I am the right candidate?” is a

question that sells you on getting the job. But

be aware of cultural differences!

Focus on developing success stories for your

resume while you are employed.





You are running the risk of burning out if you

are exhausting your body with a job that you

are not passionate about and a diet that is truly

depleting your body from energy, and letting

your negative emotions run your life.

All it takes is a change in perspective and attitude toward yourself, money and life which

can lead you to release your debt, save up the

money you want, develop a mission for your life

and find your purpose.

Develop a plan for finding a new career that makes you happy and wealthy (not just

financially but more importantly, emotionally).

Include the position you are now holding as a

stepping stone.

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision

comes from passion, not position.” John Maxwell





More Support from the Odd One OutStanding

Freedom, Purpose and Turnaround Coach

Now, that you are done with reading and working

through the book, how do you feel? My expectation

is that you feel inspired, are closer to finding orcreating the position you want and have more

confidence in the fact that you can do anything

you want.

If you feel you want to continue the search and get

totally immersed in improving this area of your

life, want some guidance and support while you

walk the walk, there are other avenues to look

into.





This book is also available as a mini series with

the three topics: 1. The Odd One OutStanding

Career, 2. The Odd One OutStanding Way of

Getting the Position You Want, 3. The Odd One

OutStanding Way of Becoming the High Flyer in

Your New Company. This book is also available as an Audio book on

mp3.

There are also recorded one-on-one coaching

sessions on this topic available.

Learn from others in the Online Odd One

OutStanding Career Bootcamp.

Receive individualized attention and strategies

during the One-on-One Coaching with Claudia

Baier.

Free articles on the subject on the website:

www.davinciturnaround.com.

You can find more information about the book

on www.theoddoneoutstanding.com.



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