Find Your Dream Job, Discover Work You Love, and Begin Your New Career
MG Job Journal - Guided Notebook for Job Seekers: Organize Your Thoughts, Stay Motivated and Track Your Progress - Find Your Dream Job, Discover Work You Love, and Begin Your New Career
The MG Job Journal is the ultimate guided notebook for job seekers. Each chapter includes tips, prompts, as well as space to organize your thoughts, reflect on your experiences, and track your job search progress. Guided worksheets help you clarify your personal values, strengths, goals, and thought patterns. Use this journal to understand what you need and want from your new career. Blank pages can be used for your own prompts, such as cultivating gratitude towards people supporting you, what success looks like for you, and more.
Written by Rachel Langston, Chief Creative Officer, this journal is a trusted companion for job seekers of all levels: recent graduates, career changers, stay at home parents returning to work, or anyone looking for new career opportunities.
Job hunting can be daunting, and draining, frustrating, and overwhelming. The MG Job Journal will guide you through your job search. Make your plan and stick to it. Overcome obstacles, and stay on track.
Land Your Dream Job in Four Steps
Searching for a job seems hard and complicated. The MG Job Journal divides it into four simple steps.
Career Direction: Define your career goals and values. Identify your strengths, skills, and priorities. Research interesting new industries and positions.
Networking: Keep track of new contacts and plan networking events and activities.
Job Search: Cope with stress, vent your frustrations, and kindle your motivation. Declutter your mind and reframe negative thoughts to maintain a positive mindset. Break down and overcome emotional or practical obstacles.
Interview: Practice, prepare questions and answers for the interviewer, and evaluate your performance. Research companies and follow up with recruiters and employers. You’ll even find a handy checklist.
This guided notebook helps you take control of your job search while helping your protect your mental wellbeing and focus your mind.
How This Journal Helps You Find Work You Love
The MG Job Journal equips you with practical tools to organize and implement your job search. It includes a calendar to schedule networking events and activities. Use the Wheel of Priorities exercise to figure out what kind of career you want. Determine what’s most important to you with the List and Rank prompt. Decide which tasks take priority with the Action Priority Matrix.
This guided notebook also includes exercises and prompts based on cognitive-behavior principles. You’ll learn the five steps to make sense of and overcome obstacles. Reframe negative thoughts and unhelpful thinking patterns to ignite your motivation. Declutter your thoughts. A 2016 study in the Journal of Clinical Psychology discovered that job seekers with more cognitive-behavior skills were more likely to receive a job offer.
Writing by hand in a journal encourages you to expand on your thoughts and make connections. A researcher at Dominican University in California found that you’re 34.75% more likely to achieve your goals if you write them down. Handwriting in particular encodes your plans and interview preparation into both your short term and long term memory. Writing by hand sears information into your brain. Allowing you to interview at top performance and win job offers.
Who is This Journal for?
The MG Job Journal is perfect for anyone who is looking for a new job. It will help you find work you love, which pays well, and aligns with your values and goals.
Recent Graduates (or nearly graduated): this guided notebook will help you transition from academic life to the professional world.Match your skills, interests, and education to different career paths.
Stay at Home Parents or Carers returning to work: this guided notebook will help you build confidence, contemplate past professional experiences, and identify skills gaps. Create a strategy to update your knowledge and skills. Design a career that balances your professional goals with your family’s needs.
Career Changers: this guided notebook will help you assess your transferable abilities, interests, and experience. Identify skills or education gaps. Draw a roadmap from one industry to another, or one role to another.
Career Coaches and Life Coaches: this guided notebook will help your clients clarify their values, strengths and career direction. It will help you create action plans for your clients to overcome obstacles and achieve their desired goals.
Individuals who have been Laid Off or are Facing Unemployment: this guided notebook will help you manage the emotional impact of job loss. You’ll find a structure for your job search. Set goals, track progress, and document your networking. Identify room for improvement and refine your job hunting strategies.
