Daily Job Hunting

by: Larla

Usually in an interview, you are the one being asked questions to gauge your knowledge regarding the job you are applying for. But in the end the interviewer will also ask you if you have any questions. Here are some questions to ask during your interview that can help you decide if this job is for you.

What can I benefit from working in your company? You would want to know how the company treats their employees.

What is the day to day routine of this job? It defines what the position entails you to do.

What are the opportunities for advancement? You would want to know if there are chances of promotion or career growth.

How soon would you make a decision? This will provide you with a time frame when to call to follow up as well as move on if you don’t hear from them.

Often than not candidates are too shy to ask questions after the interview but really there is no harm in asking. It will seem that you are not desperate for a job however is interested to be part of their work force.

You want to why risk is very important in marketing this article tells us why.

“What is it about entrepreneurs that enables them to live so far on the edge? Do they thrive on the adrenaline of risk-taking?” This made me think of another question that I frequently encounter when people find out that I love ice climbing: “How can you live with the risk? Do you actually enjoy flirting with death?”

I think that these are all the same question, founded on the same implicit but ill-founded assumption: that risk equates to danger. Now, I am not going to try and convince you that there aren’t people who do love the rush of throwing the dice—with their life or their bank account. But just because someone won a multimillion-dollar windfall by buying lottery tickets with their retirement fund, or survived running a treacherous river without any training, the fact is not altered that what they were doing was gambling, not investing. The end result is as unrepeatable as it can be inadvisable.

Calculated Risks

So if it’s not the thrill of gambling, what does distinguish the serial entrepreneur and the ice climber from the population at large? For a start, they understand the very clear distinction between risk and danger. Second, and—perhaps most importantly—they know that there are ways to approach an otherwise dangerous task in such a way that the risk is reduced to an acceptable level.

Why do entrepreneurs and ice climbers repeatedly prompt questions of flirting with death and disaster? My best guess is that a lack of familiarity prevents nonpractitioners from seeing what lies behind the surface: the serious and conscientious preparation that such people bring to their respective activities. To illustrate this, let me tell you a bit about ice climbing.

Essential Requirements

Anyone who has ever walked on a frozen lake, gone ice skating or tried curling knows that ice is slippery and that it takes practice to move with any kind of confidence. Now imagine that the ice sheet is vertical rather than horizontal. This should give you some sense of the challenge of ice-climbing. But then remember there are four things that the prepared ice-climber brings to the base of any climb: training, tools, fitness, and partner(s)

The need for training is pretty obvious. One has to know what one is doing. Just as you have to learn the rules of the road in order to drive on the freeway, the ice climber has to be educated about technique, the appropriate use of tools and procedures, reading the ice, and the evaluation of objective hazards.

Tools have improved significantly over the past decades. Strapped to one’s feet, in a manner not unlike roller-skates (but much more secure) are crampons. These have one or more long, sharp, surrogate toes that you can kick into the ice, thereby giving purchase to your feet. In each hand one has a short, curved, ice axe that is designed to enable one to smoothly drive the pick into the frozen water, thereby giving you something to hold onto. In the event that someone above knocks off some ice, one wears a helmet to protect the head. For protection in the event of a fall, one has a rope firmly tied to a harness around the waist. While ascending, the climber regularly sets a hollow titanium screw into the ice. This forms part of a system of running anchors.

The Element of Trust

This last point relates to the fact that the whole exercise is based on trust; trust in our training, our assessment of the situation, our tools, fitness, and—especially—our partner. You wouldn’t consent to being driven on the freeway by someone you didn’t trust, or who was impaired in one way or another. Nor would any reasonable person put their life in the hands of such a person in the mountains. Your partner is someone you trust with your life. Perhaps because of that, a partner is also the kind of person who makes the experience doubly enjoyable, being shared.

The lessons for business are simple: the four considerations employed by the ice climber are exactly the same as those used by the serial entrepreneur or the effective business person. Of course it could be argued that the rich scope of business constitutes a much more amorphous challenge than a frozen waterfall. But that makes it all the more rash to proceed without carefully considering the following:

Training: What, in fact are the skills that would best equip me to engage this problem? Are they evident in my team? If so, how do I hone them? If not, how do I bring them onboard?

Tools: What tools are relevant to the problem? What are the potentially useful processes, technologies or other instruments that might give me purchase and protection throughout the exercise?

Fitness: How does one prepare? How rusty are my skills? What would constitute a warm-up exercise, or a “preliminary heat” that would let me find out if I were ready for the game?

Partners: No matter how good you and your team are, in most significant cases you will need partners. Do you have the right ones? My approach in this is simple: Get the best. If you can’t, you might want to question the wisdom of proceeding. After all, if they aren’t working for you, they may be working for someone on the other side of the table.

Risk is not only not to be avoided, it is to be embraced—for survival.

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Job hunting should be given careful considerations. You need to have a plan. You need to map out strategies and establish goals. Sometimes, you even have to know more than what you need to know.

Here are some job hunting tactics that you should practice in job hunting:

1.    Choose a job that you really want. You know you can never be successful with a job you don’t like or you don’t excel at doing.
2.    Join a network. Network connects people to people and jobs. Remember that the best jobs are never posted online. These are filled up through word of mouth, with individuals forwarding recommendations of their friends, relatives or former colleagues to companies.
3.    Act now. Not next week, next month or next year. Now is always the right time to start your job search.

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By: Larla

In drafting a resume, you need to include references from current and previous employers. You do not necessarily put it immediately on your application but you can indicate that it will be furnish upon the employers request. They are required if you are applying for a job so that employers have an idea on how you work as well as your skills and abilities. They would also like to know if previous employers are recommending you for a job.

First, determine who would be your references. Make a list who you would indicate as a reference along with their company, position and contact details. It is usually previous supervisors as well as co workers who you have worked closely with. Choose people who have positive feedback on how you work and those who you get along.

Ask for consent. Referees are sometimes being called upon by companies you are applying for. So it is good that you let them know that you are indicating them as a referee. You also ask permission if it is okay for companies to contact them regarding your work experience.

Lastly, thank them for their cooperation and keep in touch. You might need their assistance again in the near future.

Cleanliness

• Showered and neatly combed hair
• Trimmed nails, clean hands
• Light perfume or cologne

Clothing

• Neat and pressed
• Dark colors
• No sneakers, sandals, shorts, t-shirts, or tight clothes

Hair

• Clean and trimmed
• Clean shaven and neatly trimmed facial hair

Jewelry

• Limit rings-men avoid earrings
• Conceal tattoos
• Finger nails should be business length-no loud colors or designs

Manners

• No gum chewing
• Do not use slang words
• Answer with yes or no not “yeah, nah, or uh-huh”
• No swearing or smoking
• Wait for employer to be seated or wait for employer to ask you to have a seat before you sit

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To have the passion for a product or to be familiar with the industry is not enough. As in all businesses, you have to study it, research about it, and assess your competition.
The point here is that you must know who your market will be. You don’t need to be a scientist to research your market and you won’t even need to hire a market researcher whom you’ll end up paying thousands just for that simple task. For the most part, all you have to do is talk to your friends and they’ll talk to their relatives. Chat up with your relatives and have their friends come over as well. You can also simply ask some random person on the street. Engage in small talks in the supermarkets or malls, as all the potential target consumers are all in those kinds of places. Ask them general questions that you can relate to the product you have in mind. It might be too informal to record but the spontaneity is what gives it its validity. Simple, but reliable research is what you have!

Sometimes we wonder what really drives us to do better, or at least what makes us do the things we do. There are a lot of reasons, but behind these reasons, there are always principles that determine the way we carry out our actions. It is very important that we know our values and that we are not uncertain to enact them. We may have all the goals in mind but if we don’t put value first, the end result won’t be what we expect. Putting value in everything that we do, especially in our work, would prove that there is more to just living life in the economic sense. Upholding values proves that we answer to a calling of survival and success that will last a lifetime.

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There are two ways wherein you can become optimistic in your job and put your conviction at work. One way is to visualize a job greater than what you have. While you may not be a CEO or not even a manager, imagine yourself to be at least a team leader. How would you settle possible problems that your company may encounter? It’s not so much of having an illusion of being THE top man but it’s more of putting yourself in a bigger responsibility in order to train yourself for the actual sense of duty that you will meet later on. Having this self-commitment to undertake a greater role, you will be able to open up a panorama of brilliant business ideas that are sure to contribute to your company’s success.

The other way to put your commitment to work is through sharing of your imagination. Most of us are afraid to be deemed as eccentric or foolish upon having images in our heads. But little do we know that these kept images can be the genius that will change things positively. You just might have a “business intuition” that not anyone can realize in himself. Every company needs a business “artist” and eccentricity can be the key. Don’t be afraid to share your vision/s. As long as you know that you can make it work, hinting your associates about what you see can start things to get moving. Think of yourself as a “mission maker” – both to yourself and to your colleagues.

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