Job Search Quotes

Roadblock #5: It's Unpredictable
By and large, human beings don't like surprises. I know that I don't. Okay, maybe I like that rare piece of unexpected good news or a letter from a friend or a thoughtful thank-you. But I'm willing to bet that people in funny hats jumping out of dark closets are responsible for more heart attacks than expressions of unbridled delight. When the doorbell rings late at night, I'm under no illusion that it's the Publisher's Clearing House Prize Patrol!
This, most likely, goes back to our caveman past when a big, exciting surprise was apt to be something like an 800-pound,snarling, saber-toothed tiger about to rip the head from our shoulders. Surprises were usually bad news. (Think about this the next time you're crouching in the dark in somebody's front hall closet with their raincoats and umbrellas.) ~ Paul Powers

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating. ~ Darrell Gurney

When you work on what you love, you have the best job in the world. ~ Ben Tolosa

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

If you don't know why you'd hire you, neither will they. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

We don't deserve our job. Period. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing. ~ Whitney Johnson

So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now. ~ Sophie Kinsella

Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Getting fired is not shameful. It just means you need to find a better fit. ~ John Tarnoff

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Your CV is just a commodity, Package yourself. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

In today's society, s not what you know, but is who you know. ~ Beta Metani'Marashi

Earn your confidence, nurture it, then help to build it in others. ~ Alex Malley

OhioColumbus: New regulations are requiring state residents to do more to get unemployment benefits: They must post their rsums on Ohio's job-search website, take three assessments and complete an unemployment questionnaire. ~ Anonymous

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Every day you should also be checking job boards to track positions as they open up. In addition to the job boards on company websites, use public job boards such as Monster, Indeed, LinkedIn, and any specialty sites. There's also your alumni website, etc. ~ Kate White

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Action is the spark that ignites potential. ~ John Long

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add. ~ Richie Norton

Just because you can't find them doesn't mean they don't exist. You've got to change the way you're
looking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there. ~ Richard N. Bolles

The better question to ask is, "which tactic should I NOT use and which one should I start with first?" This allows us to decide which tactic will give us the largest impact for time spent. Prioritization is key when it comes to launching a job search strategy. Here are the results from a 2013 survey by recruiting authority Lou Adler: Tactic Used to Secure Job Internal Move or Networking Job Ad Recruiter Found LinkedIn Profile or Resume % Effectiveness 58% 27% 14% ~ Miles Anthony Smith

If you are trying to be creative with a hiring manager, prospect or recruiter and you fall, they will never help you up. ~ Paul Babicki

The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal. ~ Bo Schembechler

Preparation, application and determination are three of the most important factors that enable you to regain your sparkle and shine like never before. ~ Donald Pillai

I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren't a good match with the personality and values of the company. ~ Kathryn Minshew

The problem suggests the solution. ~ Tom Payne

The job you seek isn't out there in some job description, it's already inside you, aching to get out. ~ John Tarnoff

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Good questions are those that show that you not only want the job, you are prepared to knock the ball out of the park once you have it. So ask, "What would a successful year in the job look like?" or "What did you most value in the person who left?" You've done a Google search of the field and the company, of course, and one of your questions could be about emerging trends. Interviewers love it when questions relate to them and their accomplishments ("I've heard you made some exciting changes recently. What has the outcome been?"). ~ Kate White

You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to create your future, you have to reconcile your past. ~ John Tarnoff

Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job. ~ Mary Ellis

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it. ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future. ~ Abhishek Ratna

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. ~ John Corbett

The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with my job. I figured I would write a few funny things a few times a week until I had enough material to do stand-up. After two or three weeks, I emailed it to some friends. They emailed it to other friends, and more people started reading. Eventually, I realized that stand-up was scary and it would be much easier to just keep writing this stuff at work. ~ Jason Mulgrew

First, to create the violent distortions of space and time necessary to travel through a wormhole, one would need fabulous amounts of positive and negative matter, on the order of a huge star or a black hole. Matthew Visser, a physicist at Washington University, estimates that the amount of negative energy you would need to open up a 1-meter wormhole is comparable to the mass of Jupiter, except that it would need to be negative. He says, "You need about minus one Jupiter mass to do the job. Just manipulating a positive Jupiter mass of energy is already pretty freaky, well beyond our capabilities into the foreseeable future. ~ Michio Kaku

without any assistance or guidance from you
i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day
i have been stood up four times
i've left 7 packages on yr doorstep
forty poems 2 plants & 3 handmade notecards i left
town so i cd send to you have been no help to me
on my job
you call at 3:00 in the mornin on weekdays
so i cd drive 27 1/2 miles cross the bay before i go to work
charmin charmin
but you are of no assistance
i want you to know
this waz an experiment
to see how selifsh i cd be
if i wd really carry on to snare a possible lover
if i waz capable of debasin my self for the love of another
if i cd stand not being wanted
when i wanted to be wanted
& i cannot
so
with no further assistance & no guidance from you
i am endin this affair

this note is attached to a plant
i've been waterin since the day i met you
you may water it
yr damn self ~ Ntozake Shange

The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now. ~ Gerard Houllier

However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there. ~ John Of The Cross

Couldn't I try...Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune...But couldn't I in another medium?...It would have to be a book: I don't know how to do anything else. But not a history book: history talks about what has existed - an existent can never justify the existence of another existent. My mistake was to try to resuscitate Monsieur de Rollebon. Another kind of book. I don't quite know which kind - but you would have to guess, behind the printed words, behind the pages, something which didn't exist, which was above existence. The sort of story, for example, which could never happen, an adventure. It would have to be beautiful and hard as steel and make people ashamed of their existence.

I am going, I feel irresolute. I dare not make a decision. If I were sure that I had talent...but I have never, never written anything of that sort; historical articles, yes - if you could call them that. A book. A novel. And there would be people who would read this novel and who would say: 'It was Antoine Roquentin who wrote it, he was a red-headed fellow who hung about in cafés', and they would think that about my life as I think about the life of the Negress: as about something precious and almost legendary. A book. Naturally, at first it would only be a tedious, tiring job, it wouldn't prevent me from existing or from feeling that I exist. But a time would have to come when the book would be written, would be behind me, and I think that a little of its light would fall o ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

When I came out of the Charity Ward of the L.A. County General Hospital in 1955 after drinking ten years without missing a night or day (except while in jail) they told me that if I ever took another drink I would be dead. I went back to my shack job and I asked her, "What the hell am I going to do now?" "We'll play the horses," she said. "Horses?" "Yeah, they run and you bet on them." She had found some money on the boulevard so we went out. I had 3 winners, one of them paid over 50 bucks. It seemed very easy. We went out a second time and I won again. That night I decided that if I mixed some wine with milk it might not hurt me. I tried a glass, half wine, half milk. I didn't die. The next glass I tried a little less milk and a little more wine. By the time the night was over I had been drinking straight wine. In the morning I got up without hemorrhaging. After that I drank and played the horses. 27 years later I am still doing both. Time is made to be wasted... ~ Charles Bukowski

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality. ~ Blanche Lincoln

Have the WNBA lower the hoops. Because even though layups get the job done, they're lame. Seriously, layups look the way Woody Allen talks. Wimpy as fuck. ~ Phoebe Robinson

Your life should be of benefit to others and you should always inspire them ~ Sunday Adelaja

The thing about this job is people go to psychiatrists and pay them $60, $70 an hour to tell them all their screwed-up fantasies, and I write mine down and people pay me. That's just how I roll. ~ Stephen King

I stare at my plate, unable to confess even to Kelsey what I've discovered in the past couple of months - that my dependence on Dean and my lack of career or even job stability is downright frightening. Without Dean or my own financial security, it's just a few short steps to a life of constant transition and uncertainty. ~ Nina Lane

You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff about directing. No, you don't. You can know as much or as little as you have to. Your main job is to get great performances and tell the story correctly and capture it correctly. Then it's just basically yours to complicate or simplify as much as you want. ~ Paul Feig

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job. ~ Ian St. John

Thanks, Baba. You are always such a comfort."
She gave him a wry look. "I know. I've been considering becoming a counselor. Or possibly a nurse."
Day shook his head. "If I were you, Baba Yaga, I'd stick to your day job. ~ Deborah Blake

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid. ~ Marcus Brigstocke

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights. ~ Garry Kasparov

Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing. ~ Judd Apatow

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me. ~ Viswanathan Anand

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. ~ Gerhard Richter

After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. ~ Twyla Tharp

A skunk works does a totally different job. It's a group of people looking for a better hill to climb. ~ Peter H. Diamandis

The search for a proper tempo is not confined to the world of music - one must seek it in life as well ~ Zhu Xiao-Mei

It's awfully good of some people to have asked me to take the job, but I'd rather read about a grand escape than plan one. Besides, I'm terrible at keeping secrets and I hate to scheme against people. It seems rude. I don't deal with guilt well and I'm worried we might hurt some feelings in the process of defending ourselves. Also, I am juggling a couple of books. Being a full-time conspirator would take away from my reading time. ~ Joe Hill

I can take care of myself just fine."

She meant take care of her own pleasure just fine. My pants grew tighter while I imagined taking care of her in my own way.

"I'm sure you can, but I'd like to apply for the job. ~ Juliette Cross

In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations that contradict prior beliefs. ~ Jenny Offill

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years. ~ Nicole Sullivan

Being a dad is my most important job because it not only affects my children, but their children and many generations to come. ~ Mark Dominik

Don't aim for a big school, aim for a big mind.
Don't aim for big muscles, aim for a big heart.
Don't aim for a big church, aim for a big soul.
Don't aim for a big house, aim for a big family.
Don't aim for a big title, aim for a big character.
Don't aim for a big car, aim for a big dream.
Don't aim for a big job, aim for a big idea.
Don't aim for a big star, aim for a big experience.
Don't aim for a big position, aim for a big solution.
Don't aim for a big office, aim for a big objective.
Don't aim for a big paycheck, aim for a big career.

Don't aim for big obstacles, aim for big opportunities.
Don't aim for big books, aim for big understanding.
Don't aim for big degrees, aim for big wisdom.
Don't aim for big skills, aim for big talents.
Don't aim for big wants, aim for big needs.
Don't aim for big empires, aim for big charities.
Don't aim for big messiahs, aim for big peace.
Don't aim for big honors, aim for big service.
Don't aim for big leaders, aim for big servants.
Don't aim for big connections, aim for a big God.
Don't aim for a big life, aim for a big experience. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

For every loss there is an equal or greater gain. Often humans have to search for it, though. ~ Debbie Macomber

The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly. ~ Susan Faludi

I think America did a great job. I think Carrie Underwood fits the bill of American Idol. She's a wonderful girl, and she's gonna have a great career. ~ Bo Bice