The Ultimate Career Coach Faith In Finding Your Dream Job

The Ultimate Career Coach

Faith in Finding Your Dream Job

CONTENTS

PREFACE …………………………………………………………….…….4

1) INTRODUCTION………………………………………………….…….5

2) WRITE IT DOWN………………………………………………….……9

3) PRAYING AND PRAYING IN AGREEMENT……………….……...11

4) PRAYING AND BLESSING OTHERS…………………………….…13

5) REMOVING THE STONE OR NEXT STEPS…………………….....16

6) LOOKING AT THE PAST

Completing an Application (How Did I Get Here?)………………....20

Accepting Responsibility (Have You Been Doing Your Best?)….….22

Forgiving (Letting Go of the Past)…………………………………...24

7) REVIEWING THE PRESENT

Being a Good Steward (Doing Your Best)……………………….….28

Spiritual Assessment (What Are Your Gifts and Talents?)……….…32

Resume (True Assessment of Where You Are)………………….…..34

References (Good Character)………………………………………...38

No More Excuses (“All You Need to Say Is Simply Yes or No”)…...40

Manna Jobs (Best Way to Get a Better Job Is to Have a Job)………..42

Health (Your Body Is a Temple)………………………………….….44

8) GOALS FOR THE FUTURE

Training and Education (Learning and Growing)……………………45

Dream Job (Being Specific and Setting Goals)………………………47

Searching (Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone)……………………49

Your Purpose (Purpose and Work Intersect)…………………………51

Being a Blessing (Blessing Others)…………………………………..54

Confidence (Not Who You Are, But Whose You Are)………………56

Guidance and Wisdom (Networking)………………………………...59

Opportunity Knocks (There Are No Coincidences)………………….61

Balance and Quality of Life (Abundant Life)………………………...63

Repeat (It’s a Journey)………………………………………………..65

Appendix A: Parents and Grandparents (Pray Your Part for Family)……...66

Appendix B: Start a Small Group (Be in Community)…………………......68

PREFACE

Around 2012, I was looking to fill some positions at our homebuilding company, and the unemployment rate in the United States was still suffering from the last recession. As I was searching for a way to fill these positions, I came across a computer program a church could attach to their website that would connect church members looking for employment with those who had positions to fill. This could be done all online and what I thought would be less cumbersome.

I went to my local campus pastor, Chris Erwin, and asked if the Church of The Highlands would consider putting this computer program on their website. Before I could finish, he immediately responded, “Sounds like a small group.” Now the last thing I wanted to do was lead a job seekers’ small group. In fact, I was looking for a way to hire people with as little conversation as possible.

After praying about it for several months, my wife and I launched a small group, Faith to Find a Job, based on a book written by L. C. Brown Bush. Great book, by the way. And we started to have people sign up for the small group.

When we started, we expected to have young individuals looking to start their real first job and thought we could help them along the way. But we found out that our group attracted middle-aged men and women either stuck in what they thought was a dead-end job or had been let go for a variety of reasons.

During those early years of the group, we followed the outline of Ms. Brown’s book: filling out applications, writing resumes, and searching the internet for jobs. All of those steps are important, but we found that a simple biblical process obtained greater results.

1. Write down what you want your dream job to look like.

2. Pray about it.

3. Have others pray in agreement.

4. Pray for others as well to get their dream jobs.

5. Remove whatever obstacle is standing in the way of God’s miracle.

Since we have adopted these steps, we have seen many individuals get a new job that was better than what we were praying for.

We hope this small book will help you draw closer to the Lord, our Ultimate Career Coach, as well as seek Him for wisdom and guidance. As a result, we hope you will find your dream job so you can make a greater eternal impact. We want you to have the best job possible so you can be all the Lord created you to be.

INTRODUCTION

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

—Steve Jobs

Obviously Steve Jobs made an incredible impact at Apple and on the world as a whole. I confess I don’t know much about him, and I suspect twenty years from now, most will not even recognize the name. However, this statement is right about the job you have or the one you want.

As an adult, we will spend almost a third of our life at work and getting to and from work. From my experience, most people are not satisfied, pleased, or happy with their job and where they work. I would go so far as to say that most people don’t enjoy what they do. I personally don’t know many who jump out of bed every morning and can’t wait for the day to begin so they can get to work. I know these people exist. My pastor is one of those individuals. But those who get excited about what is in store for the day make an incredible impact on those around them. We read about these people, see them on TV, and wonder how they could be so excited about the opportunities they face every day. As Steve Jobs says, you ought to “love what you do.”

I would love to wake up every morning excited about the day. I would love to be passionate about most of what I do. I would love to know that what I do makes a real lasting difference. I would love to leave a legacy that really matters. I would love to love what I do.