If you have a creative advertising background or have worked in content marketing, and recently lost your job, you may be super anxious about finding full-time work so you can continue meeting expenses. I get it, I get it. Yes. 100 percent.
But let me also tell you that *right now* even with all of your inner conflict, is the time to pop the top off your own head and transform your limited mindset.
I know, it’s ironic. You have all this “free time” to move in any direction you like for your own career… but instead, you’re paralyzed in uncertainty.
Break out of it.
Being thrust into an unexpected career search can feel bad. But is it?
You don’t know what the future holds. It might even feel like the floor just dropped out from under you. But just listen to me. You’re not going to get flung off into the abyss. You’ve got experience. You’ve got friends. You’ve got colleagues who love you. AND you’ve got the internet, with all of its free and low-cost space to say ANYTHING you want to say to the world.
I’ll repeat it for emphasis: this is the INTERNET. We have a gift here that makes ANYTHING possible for you.
So let me help you transform those limiting thoughts, and evolve professionally.
Ideas for elevating your career search experience
- Instead of responding to “toxic workplace” themed posts, pull from your personal bests and bullet these in your resume.
- Instead of envying someone else’s portfolio, grab ONE work sample you’re proud of, and transform it graphically.
- Instead of wishing you had experience in a certain niche, create experience for yourself by designing a mock-up in Canva.
- Instead of worrying about how you’ll pay the internet bill this month, kick off a portfolio website project that houses all your best work.
- Instead of trying to explain to your family what’s happening in your career, build a family of professional connections online by being authentic.
- Instead of posting about your poor mental health, take action to improve how you feel (go out and exercise, walk in the sunshine, spend quality time with your kids, pet, grandma).
- Instead of stressing over the “what-ifs” – research options for getting help with bills, look into alternate forms of housing, consider who you can borrow money from in the interim.
- Instead of feeling internal panic at not knowing the future, make a fallback emergency plan to lean on in a worst-case scenario.
- Instead of worrying that you won’t find a full-time job in a timely fashion, open your mind to freelance work you can get paid for while you’re in between companies.
- Instead of thinking that you don’t have enough samples, send out an email asking past clients and coworkers to trade testimonials… then add them to a page of your website.
What action will you take today to advance yourself professionally?
Make it happen.
Dina Gio is a 20-year copywriter who has felt the pinch of a changing internet that began in 2020. She knows her way around online business, has served countless clients and industries in a freelance writing and marketing capacity; makes WordPress blogs, and will gladly throw herself into your projects like they were her own. Sign up for Dina’s List and receive her latest gift for freelancers and creatives wanting to see success in the 2025 job market, but who may be feeling a bit lost right now.
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