Andy Thomas Productions

We here at Andy Thomas Productions LLC find time as you should to reflect and plan a strategy for your new year . Author and Career Coach Andy Thomas shares his motivational message each year and here are his thoughts :

As we enter 2012 I know this will be a remarkable year for you! You ask in disbelief how I could know that this will be the year where it comes together for you in your career. It’s because I understand the pain you have felt in your struggle to find “ The Job I Need Needs Me“or that career path that uses your strengths and passion. The good news is that there are more jobs becoming available now but you must allow yourself to look outside the box.

If you give yourself permission to take your skills and translate them to other job possibilities then I know you will have an extraordinary year.Take a sales job and try a dramatically different product that you can believe in. It doesn’t have to be what you sold before. Take a job at a coffee shop where you entertain people and soak up the positive vibes each day as you help make their day better. Start a business this year and use your past experiences to carve a better product and approach. It’s a new beginning and you need to first see yourself as a success this year! Then picture in your mind after careful research and hours of solid thought what you want to be doing. Then take the marketing techniques I teach in my book and seminars and apply them. You will have the job you need. You can have the job you love. Life in 2012 is full of possibilities so open the door and begin the walk.

If you can make it to my seminar in Charleston SC on January 18th at 6:30pm at The Calhoun Branch of the Charleston County Public Library then I will further show you how glorious a year this can be .Believe in yourself. I do!

Happy Holidays and Happy New You!

It’s the inventive things you learn to do that can make the difference in getting hired. Let me give you an example from my past. I was applying for a position in franchise sales with a wonderful South Carolina based company. I had caught their eye because of the wording I used in response to their clever Craigslist advertisement. They had been advertising for a “rainmaker” so I responded in my email by saying “rainmaker here” and of course went on to describe the benefits to them of hiring me. Later in the process after I had progressed from a phone interview to an in person interview then I came up with what really closed my employment. I actually took the time to write a script and produce a digital recording using their website material of how I could sound pitching their product. That was the “extra” no one else would have thought of doing and I was hired and working within one week from my application process. Remember you must stand out and you must show direct benefit to the potential employer. It works!

Photos from Andy Thomas being interviewed via satellite by CBS TV in Atlanta  as an Employment Specialist.