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But don’t you have to sell yourself? How else can you convince an employer to hire you?
In the Traditional System, it’s your responsibility to convince a potential employer you are the best candidate for the job. You’re supposed to do this by using flowery hyper-bole to describe yourself, inject action verbs and power phrases into your resume and use any number of tactics – and this is just to get the interview!

In the interview, one or more total strangers are allowed to ask you interrogation-like questions about your professional and personal life, and you are supposed to “sell your-self” to them as hard as you can, hoping to overcome their inherent assumption you’re not what they want.

One of the basic principals of human psychology is that no one likes to be sold, but eve-rybody loves to buy. Since employers are people, they don’t like to be “sold to” any more than you do, so they’ll instinctively resist whoever is “pitching” to them. This is why the Traditional System is inherently flawed – you alienate the very people you want to attract!

In the Contrarian System, you never “sell yourself.” Instead, you help your potential boss “buy” you by realizing he has a problem, he wants that problem solved and that he will be interested in you because you are interested in helping him solve his problem.

When you approach your potential boss with this mindset, you’ll be welcomed in with open arms and he’ll have “bought” you with little or no effort on your part. You’re not manipulating him in any way; you’re simply giving him what he wants, and he in turn gives you what you want. It’s basic psychology.

As sales guru Zig Ziglar put it, “You can get anything you want, as long as you help someone else get what they want first.”

Who can use the Contrarian System?
Anybody can use it, but not everyone will because it requires you to:

Generally, the people who cannot relate to the Contrarian System are those who cannot or will not let go of negative, limiting beliefs that are holding them down and keeping them from being happy, fulfilling and well-compensated in their work.

How can my thoughts and beliefs have any impact on my getting hired?
In the physical world we can see, there are numerous laws that govern how things work, such as the Law of Gravity, the Law of Soil and the Law of Electricity. And the same is true for the metaphysical world we cannot see, where specific laws are also at work, chief among being the Law of Attraction.

Like all universal laws, the Law of Attraction works exactly the same way for everyone all the time: you can’t turn it off, you can’t get away from it, you can’t change it, and you can’t figure out how it works. But if you realize that it works and what it does, you can use it to change your life and bring you whatever you want, such as that terrific high paying, satisfying job.

Whether you know it or not, you are a magnet. Through your conscious and subcon-scious thoughts, feelings and beliefs, you are drawing people, things and situations to yourself that reflect those thoughts, feelings and beliefs. That’s called “demonstration.”

If you want to know what you believe to be true about yourself, take a good, hard look at your life. If you don’t like what you see and want to make some changes, the changes must occur on the inside first in order for them to manifest on the outside.

You may have heard stories of lottery winners who eventually ended up broke. Ever wonder why they couldn’t hold on to their money? It’s because they “thought poor,” and so their lives inevitably reflected their belief that they were poor, and they were.

Contrast that with motivational speaker Tony Robbins who was a millionaire at a very early age and through a series of bad decisions, lost all his money. Within a year, how-ever, Tony not only regained all the money he had lost, he got a whole lot more!

You see, Tony lost only his money, but he never lost his wealth consciousness. He be-lieved he was prosperous in numerous ways – even when he didn’t have any money – and the Law of Attraction obediently responded to his belief by showing up as lots of money and opportunities to make more money.

What does this mean in your job hunt? Everything.

If you believe you’re not getting hired because of your age, the Law of Attraction will make sure you get plenty of demonstrations leading you to believe your age is a factor why you’re not getting hired.

It doesn’t matter how you got that belief, whether through a thought or feeling you had, from what someone told you or from something you read. What matters is you have that belief, and that belief is constantly out demonstrating in your life in a way you don’t like.

But if you release the belief that age is a factor in your getting hired, the Law of Attrac-tion will present you with lots of opportunities for you to get hired in which your age – or your skin color, gender, height, sexual orientation, cultural heritage, religion, gap in your resume or any other excuse you now use why you can’t get hired – doesn’t matter at all.

You see, your “problem” is not the problem; the problem is your belief that you have a problem. To put it simply, the more you think about how hard it is to find a good job, the harder it will be for you to find a good job!

When you eliminate your belief in job hunting being hard, and you’ll find out how easy it is to have someone say, “When can you start?”

Can’t I blend the Traditional and Contrarian Systems to double my chances of getting hired?
Unfortunately, no, because the Contrarian System is completely opposite to the Tradi-tional System. Once you get familiar with the Contrarian philosophy and start applying its strategies, you may find you’ll never want to go near the Traditional System again.

The structure of the job hunting process is the same in the two systems – approaching potential employers, letting them know who you are and why they should care, meeting them and then following up.

But everything you do within that structure is different – how you approach your poten-tial boss, what you say in your letters, in your resume and on the phone, what happens in your meeting and what “follow-up” really means.

In the Traditional System, getting hired is a combination of lucky circumstances sup-ported by your aggressive, hard-sell tactics to win over a reluctant employer in a highly competitive situation. If you don’t get hired, it’s probably because you blew it.

But in the Contrarian System, getting hired is the natural, logical outcome of a budding relationship between you and your potential boss, which is built upon a framework of mutual understanding, compatibility and trust that starts with your first contact.

Job hunting doesn’t have to be difficult, complicated, arduous or time-consuming, but if you believe it does, you can count on it being that way for you. That’s why when you change your thinking, you change your life.

Changing my thinking sounds easy. All I have to do is tell myself I already have what I want, and then I just sit back and wait for it to show up, right?
Simply saying “I now have my dream job” won’t do a thing if you don’t mean it and wish-ing and hoping won’t cut it because you’re holding feelings of doubt, fear and lack, and that’s what’s going to show up as demonstrations.

The purpose of repeating affirmations and visualizing yourself in your dream job is to build your belief that what you desire is already yours. Without the belief, the words are meaningless. As Wayne Dyer put it, “You have to believe it in order to see it.”

Once you believe your dream job is yours, start living your life as if it is. Do the things someone who has that job would do, get the training someone with that job would have and go to the trade group meetings of your new peers in the industry. After all, you’re one of them, aren’t you?

Finally, you have to move towards your goal, but you will find that at this stage, your demonstrations of your belief that you have your dream job will begin to show up and you won’t have to do much of anything.

With virtually no effort on your part, you’ll be exactly in the right place at the right time, doors you thought were closed or didn’t know existed will fly open, opportunities will fall into your lap and your dream job will no longer be just a dream.