Jim Carrey – A Lesson in Building Your Career

Jim Carrey was an extrovert as a child. As a child he performed constantly for anyone who would watch.
When he was a teenager, his family was forced to relocate to a Toronto suburb. They all took security and janitorial jobs. Jim worked an 8-hour shift after school. The family lived out of a Volkswagen camper van.

Eventually he dropped out of high school (age 16) and decided to strike out into the comedy club scene. Then he moved to Los Angeles and worked his way into a regular show at The Comedy Store, where he impressed the late Rodney Dangerfield so much that the veteran comic signed him as an opening act for an entire season.

After seeing Jim perform, Damon Wayans made a call to his brother, Keenen Ivory Wayans, who was in the process of putting together the sketch comedy show “In Living Color” (1990). Carrey joined the cast and quickly made a name for himself with outrageous acts.

Carrey’s transformation from TV goofball to marquee headliner happened within 12 months! He starred in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask and then in Dumb & Dumber, his first multi-million dollar payday! Eventually he made $20 million for a movie (The Cable Guy), the largest up-front sum that had been offered to any comic actor at that time.  Jim wrote himself a check for $10 million dollars in 1983, post-dated 10 years and hoped he could cash it by then.

What can we learn from Jim’s journey to become a major movie star and comic actor?

1.     You never get anything good for nothing – study the “greats” and you’ll see that they all worked hard. It’s your focused day-to-day efforts that add up to making you remarkable in what you do.

2.     You’ve got to LOVE what you do - Studies indicate that 75% of people are not excited about their work – they have a job but they don’t have a career – without passion you are unlikely to ever make it big!

3.     You’ve Got To Be Bad Before You Become Great – Career development is a PROCESS not an event – keep trying to get better at what you do and soon or later, you will be the expert!

4.     Recognize The Power Of Relationships – Jim made it big because he offered amazing talent that was recognized by industry leaders – who’s in your contact database that can help you achieve greatness?

5.     Focus On Who You Want To Become – Jim’s teenage life started with him working 8 hours after school and living in a Volkswagen van with his family – he beat the odds to become successful because he focused on where he wanted to be not where he was.

6.     You Become What You Think About (most often) – have a focused drive to become somebody great and have a WRITTEN plan to make it happen – having written goals dramatically increases the chance you will reach them.

Now more than ever, take time to think about what you want out of your life and your career.
The Internet and technology has made it easier than ever to become someone great.

Watch this video and Become A Dreamer Again.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

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Learn how to build a LinkedIn profile that attracts connections, business, jobs, promotions and opportunity.

Have you ever wondered how some LinkedIn users have 200 connections, or 3,000, or 10,000 connections? Or how people get incredible job offers from their LinkedIn profile? Have you ever seen some HR recruiters as mega connectors with 5,000 connections and ask yourself how they got them?

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This is a walkthrough webinar taking you step by step through your LinkedIn Profile.  However it is not just a walkthrough. This webinar will help you set up your profile to attract connections, opportunities, jobs, leads, sales, business, and more.

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This week our free teleconference will be on how to use LinkedIn to get a new or a better job or simply network to make your information available to recruiters and hiring managers.

It is not easy finding a job in a down economy. This is why you need an edge, you need visibility to the right people, as many people, in order to get the most exposure to your skills and your resume.

We will go over how to use LinkedIn for Self Promotion in the job marketplace with easy usable strategies you can apply in 15 minutes after the teleconference.

As you probably heard already the social network, or professional network LinkedIn.com has a very large concentration of hiring managers and headhunters. The problem is not all of them post jobs on this or other job posting networks. How can you contact them? How can they contact you? We’ll cover very active and passive approaches to finding a job NOW.
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