{"id":478,"date":"2024-12-01T12:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parwcc.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2025-01-21T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:28:58","slug":"the-dream-that-got-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parwcc.com\/the-dream-that-got-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream that Got Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Margaret Phares, PARWCC\u2019s Executive Director, and I had a conversation in a recently taped segment for PARWCC\u2019s LinkedIn Live Series.\u00a0 Margaret asked me a series of questions that ultimately brought us back to discussing the formation of PARWCC in 1990.\u00a0 We examined the differences and similarities of the job search and hiring processes between then and now.\u00a0 And at the conclusion of our conversation, Margaret asked me what my vision is of where the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 writing, career coaching, and employment industry is heading.\u00a0 And it was this question that sparked this article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat\u2019s my vision of the future?\u201d Margaret asked, and I provided a laconic answer \u2013 my vision as succinctly as I could put it.\u00a0 A few hours after our conversation, while vacuuming my condo, I began to think about my answer to Margaret\u2019s question.\u00a0 And I became instantly troubled by my answer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, let me share with you that back in the early 1990\u2019s, I had a coach who told me, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMr. Block, I suggest you never go to bed as stupid as you woke up.\u00a0 Every day find a way to maximize or expand what you know and what you do.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I have tried my very best to heed his advice ever since.\u00a0 This single piece of advice was the cornerstone of my success, as I questioned everything I knew and did, so I could optimize or advance everything I knew and did\u2026 daily!\u00a0 So when Margaret asked me what my vision was for our profession moving forward\u2026 I realized it was the exact same vision I had 1990!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I have the same vision today that I had back in 1990, have I not grown?\u00a0 Did I fail to articulate my own vision to others?\u00a0 Is my vision and my dream for our profession just an illusion \u2013 unrealistic? Did I waste 30-plus years chasing a mirage in my mind? Did I not maximize and expand what I knew and did?\u00a0 I stopped vacuuming. I sat and pondered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have asked this question over and over since 1990.\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHow many job seekers need sleeping pills to get to sleep at night because they\u2019re so excited about waking in the morning to conduct their job search?\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 To this day, I still get giggles, outright laughs, or a thumb-index finger shaped zero.\u00a0 No one.\u00a0 When Margaret asked me what my vision was for our profession, it was the same one I had in 1990\u2026 that our approach, processes, and tools would be so revolutionary, so exciting, so life-changing, that everyone \u2018would\u2019 need sleeping pills to get to sleep at night, because job seekers are so jazzed to work with us \u2013 to design their futures on their terms.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Managing distractions<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Margaret asked me what I thought the most pressing issue was facing r\u00e9sum\u00e9 writing and career coaching entrepreneurs, as well as employed industry professionals.\u00a0 I suggested distractions.\u00a0 I believe the one major issue that is most pressing is that we all have a gazillion distractions vying for our attention on a minute-to-minute basis, both external and internal, and both conscious and subconscious.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think about it, a job seeker and an entrepreneur have the same goal\u2026 to influence a \u201cYES.\u201d\u00a0 But in the process of developing tools and strategies to influence a \u201cYES,\u201d there are a mind-blowing number of texts, emails, phone calls, social media time, podcasts, radio and TV programs, streaming and seemingly endless on and off line venues demanding attention.\u00a0 Then there\u2019s family, friends, adversities, and our own inner thoughts pleading for time.\u00a0 Alisha says that a lack of money is her big issue.\u00a0 But the only way Alisha can resolve her money issue is to reduce her distractions, so she can more constructively focus on solutions.\u00a0 Managing distractions is a life-saving skill, not just a rapid employment one.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Technology<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course the topic of technology came up in our discussion, and Margaret asked me what I thought.\u00a0 And here again, my answers aligned with my vision \u2013 my dream.\u00a0 I replied to Margaret by saying that I believed AI, ChatGPT, and all advanced technologies will teach, coach, and be responsible for\u00a0 the general, mundane, and\u00a0 everyday job search stuff moving forward \u2013 from r\u00e9sum\u00e9 to interviewing and beyond.\u00a0 And mostly, it will teach the same stuff that\u2019s been taught since the dawn of our industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vision, as I see it, is the collaboration of AI (technology) and human empowerment.\u00a0 Technology alone, will ensure the status quo insofar as fear, pain, anxiety, and underachievement are associated with the job search process.\u00a0 But when the processes are totally changed, when the systems are reformed, and when the hiring process itself becomes comfortable and fully engaging, that\u2019s where the opportunities are almost endless.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The future opportunities, I believe, lie in 1) the ongoing collaboration between technology and human coaches to maximize and advance the rapid employment process, and 2) the development and implementation of new, transformational processes that inspire and empower optimal job seeker engagement \u2013 every step of the way.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>PARWCC membership\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Margaret and I talked about the contributions PARWCC members make to their clients, and the contributions PARWCC makes to its members.\u00a0 My one-word response was, \u201cpriceless.\u201d\u00a0 For more than 25 years, The Jay Block Companies rode the coattails of PARWCC, and so can every member.\u00a0 The programs, the training, and the camaraderie were invaluable to me.\u00a0 I am confident I would not have achieved the level of success I did without being an active member of PARWCC.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And today, PARWCC is more important than ever.\u00a0 Collectively and collaboratively members must anticipate and envision the future &#8211; and create new programs and new tools to meet the future they envision.\u00a0 A new question and answer:\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHow many job seekers need sleeping pills to get to sleep at night because they\u2019re so excited about waking in the morning to begin designing their future?\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Everyone!\u00a0 What a silly question.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Helicopter flies on Mars\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s all about vision.\u00a0 Someone had to envision a man on the moon and a helicopter flying on Mars.\u00a0 Someone had to envision a phone without a cord, and ATMs to get money faster, easier, and friendlier.\u00a0 So where is the vision in our profession?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you envision a quarter-mile long line of college students excited to work with the elite career empowerment professionals in the university <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">career resource center<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have designed a whole new curriculum and process to empower success?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you envision a quarter-mile long line of veterans excited to work with the elite career empowerment professionals in the military\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TAP Career Resource Center<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have designed a whole new process that empowers success?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you envision a quarter-mile long line of transitional employees excited to work with the elite career empowerment professionals in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Department of Labor\u2019s Career Resource Centers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who have designed a whole new process that empowers success?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you envision, as an entrepreneur, a 2-3 week pipeline of new clients excited to work with you \u2013 as an elite career empowerment coach who has differentiated themselves from their old-school competition &#8211; and challenges their job seekers to embrace a whole new process \u2013 a joyful and effective one?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, it\u2019s the dream that got away.\u00a0 But the seeds have been planted for the future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>If you see it and believe it \u2013 work to achieve it!<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Margaret and I have had many discussions over the years regarding our industry and profession. This past conversation brought back thoughts of my own visions &#8211; past and future for PARWCC.\u00a0 I believe that 1) if we don\u2019t know what we want, we\u2019ll be forced to settle for what we get, and 2) We can either make things happen for us, or allow things to happen to us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, I believe membership and active collaboration within PARWCC, is more important than ever.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because with technology blazing the trail and the mind-blowing changes occurring within our society politically, socially, and culturally, it will take an association with a group of visionaries leading it.\u00a0 In 1990 a small group of people had a vision \u2013 and PARWCC was formed.\u00a0 Success!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1990, I had a vision \u2013 a long line of students eagerly waiting to get into the university career resource center, because their approach to career management was revolutionarily exciting, motivational, and effective.\u00a0 Not a success.\u00a0 But now, an opportunity for those who see it as one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks Margaret for the opportunity to discuss these issues.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Phares, PARWCC\u2019s Executive Director, and I had a conversation in a recently taped segment for PARWCC\u2019s LinkedIn Live Series.\u00a0 Margaret asked me a series of questions that ultimately brought us back to discussing the formation of PARWCC in 1990.\u00a0 We examined the differences and similarities of the job search and hiring processes between then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-cemp","category-cic"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Dream that Got Away | PARWCC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Take the time to reflect on the evolution of the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 writing and career coaching industry, highlighting the impact of technology and the need for innovation. 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