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Recently I’ve met with three entrepreneurs looking for jobs. They’ve come to me somewhat frustrated and out of options, or so they feel.

The first, a clothing designer, was laid off from a major clothing design company. Since she was fairly high up in the company finding a similar job had slim pickings. After some time, she had not found anything.

The second, a recent graduate from college at a fairly reputable school, has serious overseas experience and was having the dickens of a time finding work in the business consulting world. She wanted to work for a major consulting firm here in New York, as she had some previous internship experience at one.

The third, a former managing director at a major investment bank, was recently laid after the new bank that acquired his failed company phased out his division. He has been looking for several months, but because so few jobs are available at his level, he has not been successful.

I told each of them the same thing: don’t wait for a job/position to become available, create it.

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