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How to use the acronym "CANADA" as a problem solving formula to advance your job search

Day 5 of the Olympics. Our women's hockey team, Olympic medallists, routed the Swiss team and we won our first gold medal on home soil in years. Beaming with patriotic pride, I am inspired to use a Canadian acronym for the primary purpose of career coaching and the secondary purpose of sport coaching.

Nothwithstanding the Olympic competitors, athletes have used a proven technique that is so vital in job searching, mental visualization. But let me tell you about this acronym that will rouse your spirits, if you are unemployed, underemployed or laid off.

Back in April 2009, I attended a seminar in French on "laser coaching," or techniques for "small moments" when coaching is needed for any of us, whether personal, professional or otherwise.

The presenter gave us a booklet of techniques on career coaching.

The acronym for CANADA will help your job search move forward:

CA= What CAn you do differently to change the situation?

NA= When you think of the number 10, what word comes to you NAturally?

DA= What bold acts could you do to advance? (The DA refers to "audDAcieux," which means
bold in French).

Start using the CANADA acronym to advance your job search and get hired faster?

Need a career coach to help you move forward with your job search?

Book a one hour consultation with me about any job search topic of your choice, http://www.careercoachingbyphone.com get your job search back on track
or email me at teacher10@hotmail.com

"Fortune favours the bold," Virgil, Ancient Roman poet and writer

Melissa Martin
bilingual career coach
http://www.careercoachingbyphone.com/

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