Alan Patricof Quotes

In order for you to find a job, people need to know you're looking.

Ask people who have the job you want how they got it.

Whether you're working in corporate America or you're a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - we're all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When 'Psych' ends, I will be looking for another job.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.

When I get a job, I make phone calls to every single person I know and tell them not to bloody call me.

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

Coaching jobs are far and few between; you try and get into the right situation and take advantage of it from there.

I don't have the expertise in that department, I seriously lack the skill to market myself.

Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.

I was networking every day from 21 to 28 years old. I sent 10 letters a day, which means I reached out to 3,000 people in a year.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

You don't choose. I just go where the work is.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.

I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.