Daily Job Hunting

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Being in the job market these days, you can be sure competition is tough. It is not because there are no or fewer available best job opportunities in the job jungle. It is mainly because, the companies and future employers demands have gone soaring almost impossibly high. These employers expect the best out of you. They want you to show them that you’ve done your homework. You already know their company and their background and what they are looking for. And most importantly, they want you to show them that you are the best fit to the position they are about to fill up. How you can be of great contribution to their prestigious team. And the solution to that is the alternative job hunting strategy. It presents a whole different perspective. It will let you learn to see job searching in the eyes of the employers, in that way you will have a great advantage of understanding the people behind it and be able to answer questions that are critical to get that job. Specify the areas of the company in which you have something unique to offer. Send an email to the person who will decide on hiring you who has an obvious interest in the kind of proposal you have presented and briefly explain the specifics of your proposal.

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Of course if you want to succeed in your job hunt you must make your best but how? there are various tips i can share with you during your job hunt:

1) You must do the modern way of job hunting - you can use your computer and internet so that you can search job vacancies through job sites. there are various website such as JOBSDB, JOB1GLOBAL, JOBSTREET, MYTRABAHOKA, other government agency site focus for employment.

2) you must have a complete and comprehensive resume so that you will be above other applicants. you must follow the do’s and don’ts of the resume writing you can find it over google.com

3) be prepared to what ever type of interview you will undergo such as behavioral, one on one (face to face), panel, phone and etc. If possible practice at home by facing in the mirror and answering common interview question found also in google.com

There are lots of articles written over the net and just search you will learn from all of them. trust me.

This is one thing a lot of us take fore granted, job satisfaction. People in offices do jobs for decades even if they hate it and are not totally satisfied with it for the simple reason that it is a job. Well, this has to end and people have to realize that it has a lot to do with the quality of life as a whole. Employees who begrudgingly stay with their jobs for fear of not having one are totally wrong in their concept for the employment market is evolving into a dynamic one that needs people who are energetic and motivated. The shift to telecommuting has allowed a more informal approach to employment with people having the ability to engage in more than one job. So take a look at your career and see if you are happy, you might be sacrificing your family�s happiness for a job you hate

If you want to get a job and you have no experience or if you want to change jobs but feel like your skills are limited, here are some ways to go for it:

College degree – a college degree can always find you a job since this leaves an impression that you can be trained and are open to any new experience

What field? – know what particular kind of field you want to get into and assess yourself if you have skills that can be honed and which can be suitable for the field you want to get into.

Management skills – look for companies that are open to train people for management that only requires basic skills.

A second degree – if you want a change of career, you might consider taking up a second degree that is specialized to the field or industry you want to get into.

Part-time job – getting a part-time job in a different field will surely give you new experiences. Start small and you will soon perfect it.

Volunteer work – volunteering in non-profit jobs are usually jobs that you don’t think of encountering. You might discover a hidden skill or passion.

Resume and recommendation – a good resume and a good recommendation from an esteemed higher-up are sure to get you a job.

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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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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Office culture is the hardest thing one can predict when it comes to the workplace especially now when there are more and more people working out of the office. There is a certain level of culture within the office itself may it be bound by walls in traditional offices with desks or the ones that do not have bounds with employer and employees not even knowing each other personally as with telecommuting. The only way they know each other is through the net which has now become the mainstream bloodline of companies all over the world where they rely on for marketing, and other business functions. Be sure to check out extensively the prospective company you intend to get employed with. As we have stated, getting to know your employer might not always be possible but doing a little background work can get you information that will ultimately get you hired. Try to get a feel for how the company runs, like most telecommuting companies who have informal business practices and so on and so forth. Never forget respect, and treat everybody who deserves it with it. Simple salutations and endings to correspondence (like saying thank you the end of every email) say a lot about you and your character even though you don�t know these people personally.

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!

There are tons upon tons of resources on job hunting on the net that one cannot get decide which one to choose which one to select as the best source of information on job hunting. Well the answer to the question is that there is no sure way to get a job even with the best companies and coaches who might be helping you without you, the applicant getting to know more about the field and preparing for the process. Of the many careers available on the net there is one thing many people have forgotten, getting to know the employer before they get into the job leaving them anguishing in utter despair with a job they do not even like.

Many job hunters would laugh at the prospect of getting a job they barely know but end up loving and making it successfully in the said field. This is not an uncommon strategy of people who are just fed up with the work they are currently in. Be brave and face the lion in the face and ask yourself, “Would I last in this job?, Can I live with facing a computer everyday for the rest of my career?”
Many so-called shifters will tell you that it may just be the break you are searching for when it comes to jobs that you couldn’t get. For example, philosophy graduates are more in demand now for business related jobs than ever before. Why, the way they think brings a better understanding of businesses and the social aspects of doing business.