Job Searching Checklist

1. Figure out what you have to offer, both in job skills (can operate a CAT tractor) and more general abilities (leadership).

2. See what your reputation is now, primarily on the web.

3. Learn how to tell targeted stories about what you deliver based on what you've done before.

4. Learn how to make the visuals correspond with the stories.

5. Build your reputation, largely online through service.

6. Convert your stories into a résumé.

7. Use your experiences from #5 to figure out who you want to tell your stories to.

8. Tailor your stories to the audience.

9. Understand the interview as surrealism and do it anyway.

10. Ask for the sale.

11. Follow up.

12. Never give up.

13. Keep reading.