Hit the Bull's Eye

In God's Work in Progress the  Seminar, we teach the folks attending to aim for the Bull's Eye in their careers.  The way the world has changed is permanent. You and I need to focus our lives not just our careers, if we want God's best.   Finding your Life's Core Purpose, it's main, intended contribution,  is the foundation we help people to discover in the first session.  Knowing your Life's Core Purpose is unique to you.  But understand this: we all EXIST for the same reason: To Know, Love, and Serve God.  Our Life's Core Purpose,  (LCP) guides us in HOW we do that, what our primary, on-going, powerful contribution to Life.

Once people discover this, we teach them to take this LCP and integrate fully into their lives, to let it drive the focus of how they live their lives and what they bring to every situation they find themselves in, or to plainly just serve if their LCP does not apply.  (Interestingly whenever I'm in a situation where I'm "merely serving, or just helping out,  God gives me amazing opportunities to use my LCP!.)

When a person learns to fully integrate and "normalize" their Life's Core Purpose,  it begins to drive their career.

Once this is in motion, we tell people to "target their job search".  This means seek out companies and organizations whose own core purpose, mission , and values align with YOURS!   The way to do this is to visit the companies web site and click on their "About Us" tab.  This tells them what the company wants them to know. We then ask them to do a "news search" about the company. This tells them what OTHER people are saying. We also ask them to check sites such as www.hoovers.com and  the Better Business Bureau for the same reason.  

Once they've targeted a company, whether it has a job opening or not, they are advised to begin the process of marketing themselves to that company with a great cover letter and resume` and by networking with people who work there.

This targeted approach is applied also in the interviewing process. The easy thing about this approach is that it is SINCERE, AUTHENTIC, and easy, because it is based on the truth that you really do align with the company.