Create Your Own Job is the Career Management Practice side of Thompson Associates.

Thompson Associates is an Executive Search Firm founded and managed by Dennis Thompson.  The career management practice of our business grew out of a desire to better serve both our search firm clients with their outplacement needs and our candidate base with their individual career needs. The term create your own job was coined by one of our early workshop participants when he first realized he could control his own destiny and not be at the mercy of the economy, his company or the traditional job hunting system.

“I get it” he said. “It doesn’t matter if my company’s in trouble or not, or what’s going on with the economy. If I consistently follow this process I can create my own job whenever I want!”

He and many others have proven him right time and again. Over time and hundreds (maybe thousands) of mistakes to date, we have learned exactly what works and what doesn’t in creating multiple opportunities for job seekers. The techniques and strategies have been tested, refined and mastered for each piece of the job search puzzle. We have observed that not everyone will put in the work to consistently follow the process, but the process will consistently work for those that do.

The basic strategy is simple: Create opportunities in the “HIDDEN JOB MARKET” where over 80% of all jobs are created, but are never advertised to the general public.

Our mission is also simple:
“To give people the knowledge, skills and ability to control their own destiny"

-Dennis Thompson