Staying in the GameSix Practices for Helping

the Long-Term Unemployed

June 1st, 2013

By: Mark Guterman

MeaningfulCareers.com

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news: I don’t know where I am or where I’m going. The bad news: I’m way ahead of schedule.

Attributed to David Lee Roth

Practice 1: Take a Disciplined Approach

Help your clients develop and use a structure that works for them

Encourage taking small steps Have them focus their attention and energy where they have control

Practice 2: Manage Stress and Emotions

Help them develop a daily regimen of self-care, making this an integral part of their job search

Have them focus on the tasks right in front of them; teach them how to put emotions to the side

Encourage the asking for help before it is desperately needed

Practice 3: Develop Actionable Goals and Plans

Have them create A, B, and possibly C goals and spending appropriate time on each

Guide them in stepping out of their comfort zone, as necessary, to keep things moving

Help them to do all necessary research to insure that their goals and plans are inspiring, realistic, and feasible

Practice 4: Trust the Process Help them to be disciplined and accountable for their actions

Show them how this as an opportune time to develop in new ways and learn new things

Remind them that the job search has a logic and timing of its own; it’s rarely, if ever, personal

Practice 5: Keep a Positive Attitude

Remind them that this time period is just one small part of their life story

Help them to affirm and communicate their strengths to self and others

Guide them in being mindful of their choices

Practice 6: Allow for Moments of Inspiration and

Awe Encourage the making time every day for silence, meditation, or prayer

Remind them to allow their sense of the divine to infuse the job search in appropriate ways

Help them to remember that the journey itself is as meaningful as reaching the destination

Next Steps: Get Moving, Keep Moving

Choices/decisions to be made? Practices to put into action? Information to gather, understand,

and utilize? Others?

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll still get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

For Further Information

Mark Guterman 510.487.2590 Mark@MeaningfulCareers.com

www.MeaningfulCareers.com