Ask The Experts David Safeer

Ask The Experts David Safeer David Safeer is not a career coach or career professional. He is a professional who started using JibberJobber a few years ago.  Ive emailed him a number of times over the years and always found him to be really nice, and from his LinkedIn Profile, I can tell he is quite accomplished. In this hour+ conversation, we talked about a bunch of things, and there were some big AHA! moments for me.  Here are some of my notes with times enjoy! 0:00 introduction 3:00 who is David Safeer his background and professional career 6:00 topic of branding, and rebranding at a corporate and a personal level 8:20 personal rebranding: its one of the mot difficult things that I have had to do 9:45 on getting laid off and shifting directions 10:30 on becoming a freelancer or business owner 12:20 the reality of entrepreneurship it is freaking scary, and it is really hard! 13:20 pausing and figuring out what you really want to do (instead of panicking in the job search) 14:10 I didnt have the confidence in myself what should I charge, etc. 16:00 on starting his own business a lot of work, thought, etc. 18:20 what happened to his company when the recession hit 19:45 during this process, he learned about JibberJobber (through a network contact) 20:30 on closing a business right, or wrong and learning from it 22:00 the emotions of closing a business, starting a job search. where was David at? The toughest couple of years of my life, emotionally. 24:10 how to get through very difficult emotional times in the job search (value of a coach this is awesome!) 25:00 is it worth it to hire a coach?   Especially when money is so tight? 25:30 BNI networking groups great advice 26:20 anyone who doesnt know how to network, should learn how to! 26:35 Capital N Networker 27:30 I dont remember his name, but Im going to get on JibberJobber and find him! 27:50 Tree View Absolutely amazing 29:40 networking forced me out of the house. 29:45 what do you do at a one-to-one meeting?   Lunch?   But then what?! 30:45 could you be a Capital N Networker? 31:40 having connections on LinkedIn vs having relationships with people and where he is at on the Quantity vs. Quality debate 32:00 going to network meetings are we being effective, or is this superficial?? 33:30 network meetings are they fun, or are they stressful? 35:30 his trick when entering a network meeting. 36:00 how I feel about networking at conferences (you guys arent alone!) 36:30 when networking gets fun and rewarding 38:10 what is a third degree contact and how is it different in JibberJobber than a social network?   And how and why this impacts the tree view. 39:50 figuring out who to thank for your clients, leads, etc. 40:30 how to thank people who introduced you to contacts 41:00 put BNI in as a contact, so he could track everyone he met through an organization (I would recommend using Tags for that instead of associating to a Company) 42:00 FASCINATING discussion of how to rank people based on (a) do you know people, and (b)  will you make those introductions not for measuring personal relationships, or if they are a good person.   This is something he did about 18 months ago it was emotionally difficult to me to move someone down from a five star to a three). 43:40 I had to network UP and ACROSS very cool and insightful thats when I started making real progress 44:35 you need to figure out who are the right people to network with 45:20 he defines what a five star is (this is BRILLIANT!) 46:45 would you ever have lunch with a 2 star contact? Yes, absolutely (find out why) 48:00 this new ranking system has made a huge shift in my productivity 48:15 using a cookbook methodology (or a system) 50:00 having the RIGHT conversations with the RIGHT people. 52:00 its really tough to put a friend in a 1 or a 2 but hes using ranking not as how strong is my relationship with that person 57:00 are you using Email2Log?   Surprisingly, no.l  Why?   Listen here 59:20 if your audience doesnt get it, is it their fault or your fault?   Chastisement from my business coach 62:00ish final thoughts and advice 65:00 Functional Resume WOW!   Everyone says to stay away from functional resumes but he says they are valuable!   This is really insightful! 66:20ish is Functional Resume for everybody? Perhaps not ! 67:35 on finding target companies, and why that didnt work for him (at an executive level) 68:15 networking is by far the most effective way to do this Ask The Experts David Safeer David Safeer is not a career coach or career professional. He is a professional who started using JibberJobber a few years ago.  Ive emailed him a number of times over the years and always found him to be really nice, and from his LinkedIn Profile, I can tell he is quite accomplished. In this hour+ conversation, we talked about a bunch of things, and there were some big AHA! moments for me.  Here are some of my notes with times enjoy! 0:00 introduction 3:00 who is David Safeer his background and professional career 6:00 topic of branding, and rebranding at a corporate and a personal level 8:20 personal rebranding: its one of the mot difficult things that I have had to do 9:45 on getting laid off and shifting directions 10:30 on becoming a freelancer or business owner 12:20 the reality of entrepreneurship it is freaking scary, and it is really hard! 13:20 pausing and figuring out what you really want to do (instead of panicking in the job search) 14:10 I didnt have the confidence in myself what should I charge, etc. 16:00 on starting his own business a lot of work, thought, etc. 18:20 what happened to his company when the recession hit 19:45 during this process, he learned about JibberJobber (through a network contact) 20:30 on closing a business right, or wrong and learning from it 22:00 the emotions of closing a business, starting a job search. where was David at? The toughest couple of years of my life, emotionally. 24:10 how to get through very difficult emotional times in the job search (value of a coach this is awesome!) 25:00 is it worth it to hire a coach?   Especially when money is so tight? 25:30 BNI networking groups great advice 26:20 anyone who doesnt know how to network, should learn how to! 26:35 Capital N Networker 27:30 I dont remember his name, but Im going to get on JibberJobber and find him! 27:50 Tree View Absolutely amazing 29:40 networking forced me out of the house. 29:45 what do you do at a one-to-one meeting?   Lunch?   But then what?! 30:45 could you be a Capital N Networker? 31:40 having connections on LinkedIn vs having relationships with people and where he is at on the Quantity vs. Quality debate 32:00 going to network meetings are we being effective, or is this superficial?? 33:30 network meetings are they fun, or are they stressful? 35:30 his trick when entering a network meeting. 36:00 how I feel about networking at conferences (you guys arent alone!) 36:30 when networking gets fun and rewarding 38:10 what is a third degree contact and how is it different in JibberJobber than a social network?   And how and why this impacts the tree view. 39:50 figuring out who to thank for your clients, leads, etc. 40:30 how to thank people who introduced you to contacts 41:00 put BNI in as a contact, so he could track everyone he met through an organization (I would recommend using Tags for that instead of associating to a Company) 42:00 FASCINATING discussion of how to rank people based on (a) do you know people, and (b)  will you make those introductions not for measuring personal relationships, or if they are a good person.   This is something he did about 18 months ago it was emotionally difficult to me to move someone down from a five star to a three). 43:40 I had to network UP and ACROSS very cool and insightful thats when I started making real progress 44:35 you need to figure out who are the right people to network with 45:20 he defines what a five star is (this is BRILLIANT!) 46:45 would you ever have lunch with a 2 star contact? Yes, absolutely (find out why) 48:00 this new ranking system has made a huge shift in my productivity 48:15 using a cookbook methodology (or a system) 50:00 having the RIGHT conversations with the RIGHT people. 52:00 its really tough to put a friend in a 1 or a 2 but hes using ranking not as how strong is my relationship with that person 57:00 are you using Email2Log?   Surprisingly, no.l  Why?   Listen here 59:20 if your audience doesnt get it, is it their fault or your fault?   Chastisement from my business coach 62:00ish final thoughts and advice 65:00 Functional Resume WOW!   Everyone says to stay away from functional resumes but he says they are valuable!   This is really insightful! 66:20ish is Functional Resume for everybody? Perhaps not ! 67:35 on finding target companies, and why that didnt work for him (at an executive level) 68:15 networking is by far the most effective way to do this