IDEATESARAH TAYLORDESIGN THINKING LAB

WHAT WOULD A 5 YEAR OLD DO?

Do something fun Go to the

playground and let your mind wander

Play with some toys to get in touch with what you love

Does this make you smile?

Weigh Your Options…

Old Guard Use Careerbuilder Use Monster Use Craigslist Post your resume

in your alumni database

New Meat Talk to young grads

in your industry to get ideas

Read articles on web about changes in your industry

Highlight some trends and see if there are jobs in those markets

Networking 101

• Do informational interviews with friends at companies you want to work at

• Talk to former colleagues about jobs that they liked

• Seek out some of the companies of former colleagues

• Join a meetup.com group for your industry

• Start a meetup.com group for people in your niche

$$$ Hire a consultant to help you find jobs Hire a recruiter Hire a life coach Hire an agent Hire an image consultant Hire a branding agent Hire a production company to make a movie about

your job search and put it on the internet Hire a band to make a song about your job search and

have radio stations play it Hire a rapper to do a rap about your job search and

put it on youtube or make demo CDs.

More $$$ Hire a production team to make a commercial and air

it on prime time TV Hire a prop plane to do a message across the sky with

your name and alumni email, with a blurb about your job search

Make T-shirts with your name, job requirements and contact info and hand them out at music festivals, parties, the mall, etc.

Get together with other unemployed friends and host a job fair in your backyard

Make bumper stickers that say “hire me” with your email and give them out to people

or go for broke… Use local library Read books about job search Take personality tests online to match

with preferred job

Alumni resources Informational

interviews with alumni

Talk to your old professors

Register with career center at your alma mater