I have been working with several job clubs the past few months and have offered a workshop entitled “Interviewing Your Inner Self”. The first workshop focuses on identifying your Life Energies and the second focuses on discovering your Life Purpose. It’s easy for people to see how recognizing their Life Energies and the energies of interviewers helps them in the job search. In an interview you can focus on the meaning, experience, or process of a job to match your language to that of the interviewer.
What is trickier for people to recognize is how identifying their Life Purpose can help them in their job search. They have been focused on developing the skills of how to write a resume, how to search for a job, how to interview, how to follow up after an interview, etc. And, these are all necessary skills.
As you go through the job search process you can run the gamut of emotions – anger over losing your job, optimism that it will turn around quickly, fear that it won’t, frustration that you are doing everything “right” and no one is saying “yes” and then taking it personally, that something must be wrong with you. This is where identifying your Life Purpose can help shift your personal energy.
As you recognize and identify your Life Purpose you begin to recapture the feeling that you are up to something, that you have something to contribute and you allow yourself to begin thinking “big” again. It helps to reassure you that you will make a contribution and that someone will offer you an opportunity. It is so easy to slide into a feeling of not being good enough when you are faced with searching for a job. This is one of the intangibles that you can counteract when you identify your Life Purpose.
Your personal energy is extremely important when you both apply for a job and when you enter the interview. When you are feeling almost desperate that they say “yes”, you will give off that vibe (yes, I did go old school and say, vibe). When you enter the same interview with a feeling of confidence that you have something to contribute you give off an entirely different vibration. You can’t really measure the difference, but people respond to the differences all of the time.
So, the point I am trying to make is that giving yourself every advantage is vital when you are doing a job search. Boosting your inner confidence and inner awareness gives you one more positive piece to your job search. So, to answer the question of the title – one of the ways identifying your Life Purpose helps you find a job is by helping you focus on your innate strengths and worth. When you apply and interview for a job from the space of feeling personally empowered you are able to showcase your skill-set in a very positive way. You have congruence between your inner self and your experience in the world. It’s a way for you to make the statement that you are up to something and that you have that something extra to bring to the job.
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