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Secrets To Searching For The Career You Really Wanted
Career search is a very stressful and difficult process. This is
even made more intense today because so many companies are
reducing their workforce. Thus increasing the number of
applicants for a shrinking number of jobs.
The competition for available jobs is fierce. Yet, you can beat
the competition and actually search and get hired in the career
you really want.
Consider these secrets:
1. Discover what you really want out of your work and life.
Discover your true passions, desires, beliefs, and talents so
that you can paint a picture of your true work and life goals
from your own perspective.
2. Develop and define the job you really want. Design and define
the career that will allow you to fulfill your passions,
desires, beliefs and maximize your talents.
What you are doing is building your ideal job around what you
want as opposed to looking at job opportunities that come along
to evaluate. Believe it or not, the career you are searching for
actually exists in more than one way and within the personal
parameters you set.
3. Find out what companies have positions that meet your ideal
position requirements. Look and research all of the possible
companies within the geographical area you designated to
discover what positions within these companies you would want.
Do not worry about whether they have job vacancies or are
currently in a hiring mode.
4. Evaluate the companies that have your desired careers. Make
sure you would want to work for the companies that have your
ideal jobs. They need to have integrity and treat their
employees and customers in the manner you would want to be
treated.
Determine whether they operate in an industry that you want to
work in.
Research about the career you selected. Do not be put off or
discouraged if the companies are not hiring. Why? Because
companies are always looking for the right employees and will
have to eventually hire new employees to survive.
Determine who actually makes hiring decisions, and what is
important to them. Many companies disguise this information
through HR departments or hiring committees. If possible, try to
find out how you can contact hiring decision-makers directly.
Get their e-mail addresses, direct telephone numbers, or find
someone in the company who can do that for you.
5. Contact the decision-makers and tell them you want to work
for them in the specific career you are searching for. Express
your enthusiasm for that specific job or jobs. The fewer jobs
you designate the better.
You want them to know you can be trusted by truthfully exposing
your commitment to seeking your dream job, even though they may
not have an opening.
Let them know that you will be very productive because you will
excel at the job. That you will be a very grateful and energetic
employee because you are doing what you love. You are not just
asking for a job so they will pay you, but you have targeted a
specific job at that company, and you are committed to
contributing in that position.
Employers constantly face the problem of finding and surrounding
themselves with the right employees who want to work for them,
whom they can trust, and who will be very productive with the
least amount of supervision.
You are not the only one searching for the perfect career to
come. There are many others who are still on the process of a
career search.
About the author:
John Rivers is the owner of Jon Interview Helper. His website
provides online university and general careers and education
resources for students and industry professionals in a variety
of fields. Visit Job Interview
Helper
John Rivers
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