By Melody Braithwaite

Want to change jobs, but you have no idea of what to do, where to go or who to ask?

This strategy is a self-directed intuitive process that allows you to access your own inner wisdom in a playful, easy and relaxed way to reveal what your ideal job could look and feel like. The ability to look inwards to access our inner knowing often gets buried under financial pressures, uncertainty, excessive negative mind chatter, critical self-judgment and the general busyness of life.

Statistically 5 out of 7 workers will be thinking about changing jobs. The reasons are many, for example individuals feel their current work is suffocating the life out of them, no-one appreciates their contribution, their skills are stagnating, the tasks they perform are dull and repetitive, and most importantly they are not growing or developing their careers or themselves personally. It is important if you invest a great deal of your time at work, that at the very least you should be enjoying your job.

This process invites you to become an explorer. You have permission to allow your natural curiosity to lead you along interesting pathways to employment and places that previously you would not have even considered within the realms of possibility. Follow the bread crumbs, you may be surprised where they lead you. Only the authentic you under all those veneers that society, family and even you, protect yourself with, knows what is the best job for you.

TOOL KIT

For this strategy, you will need the following resources and tools:

• A relaxed state of mind
• 20 undisturbed minutes (unhook the phone)
• Highlight Pen (make it your favourite colour)
• Scissors
• A good cross section of Local, State and Federal Newspapers – both the News and Employment sections
• Blank paper
• Glue, and
• A box to hold pages or a folder.

This is a two-session strategy – Collect and Review. Choose to do one or the other but not both in the same session as they will be accessing different parts and processes within your sub-conscious.

COLLECT

1. Start only if you are in a reasonably relaxed state of mind, not when you are desperate or anxious about your current job or employment prospects. The fastest way to achieve this is either do some deep breathing exercises, concentrating only on your breath going in and out, or to take a 10-minute walk. The objective is to settle any mind chatter by not giving it energy with your attention or focus.
2. At least once a week scan both the news section which often contain display job advertisements as well as the Employment Section of each newspaper.
3. As you turn each page, allow your eyes to wander over all sections. This is not a reading or comprehension exercise, just browse through the text and pictures.
4. Be aware when your attention is pulled to an item. Something may catch your eye, you could feel an emotional response or even a physical sensation (they called it gut feeling for good reason). For example, it may be in reaction to:
   • all or part of a job title
   • a picture
   • a company name
   • a profile of the company e.g. what it does, who its clients are, its products and services
   • descriptions of the work environment or culture
   • remuneration package, or
   • location.
5. It does not matter what draws your focus, simply use your highlight pen to mark it as an item of interest.
6. Fold the top corner of the newspaper sheet to indicate that there is something on this page that has been marked before moving onto the next section or page.
7. Keep going until you have finished all newspapers.
8. Now go back and use your scissors to cut out each advertisement marked with highlight pen. NOTE: Be sure to check the reverse side of the page before you cut it may contain a highlighted piece, in which case you will need to photocopy this second item first.
9. Stick the advertisements onto a blank page, date and reference sources, and file in a folder or container.
10. For this session, try not to read, interpret, analyze or review what you have highlighted, leave that to your subconscious to process.

REVIEW

When the time feels right, and you are relaxed, open the folder, or container and start flipping through the pages. Again this exercise is not to read all the text in every advertisement, but rather allow your eyes to drift over the highlighted text.

Are there any trends or patterns appearing? For example, is there more than one instance of a similar type of text, image or content being highlighted:

• an employment sector e.g. multi-national, corporate, private or community organisations

The process will reveal preferences that the deeper, unconscious, knowing part of you has for your ideal work environment, job and company. Its important not to reject these signposts as impossible dreams. Stay open, your infinite intelligence does not give you these indicators unless you are capable of achieving your ideal job.

Since 2000 Melody Braithwaite as a highly successful professional resume/job application writer and Director of Moving Horizons Pty Ltd has used her documents to ensure each of her clients’ authentic offering is noticed ahead of sometimes thousands of other applicants. Her documents have helped open employers’ doors in every sector – multi-national, commercial, manufacturing, retail, government, community and at all operational and management levels (graduate to CEO), and allowed her clients the opportunity of presenting themselves in person as the ideal candidate in a job interview.

All application documents are individually written to reflect the uniqueness of each client. Every time Melody commences a new application document, she has no preconceived ideas about what the end product will look like. After many years in the industry she understands that the process of gathering information soon acquires a direction, pace and presentation style all of its own accord. Each document becomes an enjoyable creative journey of discovery, an opportunity to connect with her clients and produce highly personalised ‘one-of-kind’ application documents that stand out from the crowd.

Her job application service delivers not only professionally presented documents to clients, but also utilises the information gathering process to help clients prepare for interviews (e.g. rehearse the employment narratives), as well as teaching/mentoring clients in the process of preparing selection criteria themselves for future applications. Her business enjoys a very high referral rate, and outstanding client retention as many clients return year after year to update their resumes for progressing onto the next stage in their careers. Her business website is http://www.movinghorizons.com.au.

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