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Tom Finnegan of the Life's Work Center states to people to find out what motivates an employer, whether it is mission driven or profit driven. Some companies may be both. Do not rule out a sector of employment because of assumptions. When brainstorming to find a job, open up to consider all sectors, including government and self employment.

The ideal job portrait is derived from defining a person's ideal work. With knowing the ideal work, a person can be proactive and evaluate job offers and openings. Finnegan advises to boil down the field of enthusiasm to a phrase that is memorable. This allows someone to tell others what he/she is looking for. The phrase should include goals, obstacles overcome, actions taken, outcome.

Interim work moves a person to a desired position. Temporary work, with attitude may transition a person to opportunities.

Work that makes a person's soul shrivel is usually work that a person does in such a manner that leads to termination.

People easily revert to conventional thinking and behaving. The program strives to make people look for exceptions to rules versus doing tasks in familiar ways. For instance, people may think that they must commit to further education in order to find work, but Finnegan preaches to find work that is possible to do now. Sometimes after getting a degree, a person may change or the world may change. A degree is not always necessary in order to transition into another field. If a person is able to define transferable skills, he/she may not need to start at entry level.

Finnegan advises to conduct information interviews to screen jobs before taking them.