I always say that your -or mine- career is not about making money but being happy doing what you love. Money is a consequence of one being good at what one does.
Still, I wouldn’t hurt knowing what you are getting into before deciding to go to school.
Infographic after the jump.
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This is the third installment of the job hunting series. Last time, we discussed how to analyze and weigh geographical locations in case your job hunt takes you to unexplored territories. Now we are going to focus on how to target the right companies for you and how to approach them.
Okay, so you’ve made up your mind and decided where you want to work next and what industry to board. Next in line, decide where exactly you want to work. Trust me, blindly applying in Monster.com and Careerbuilder for every job that nearly fits your qualifications is not the best approach. You’ll find out why in the next entry: How to Prepare for a Job Interview.
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How many times have you said “I don’t like doing this” and closed the door to not one, but hundreds of opportunities?
I’ve always said I don’t like selling.
My first “job” (if I can call it that) was as a sales rep; it took me 2 weeks to quit. I didn’t like the job and I thought I wasn’t any good at it.
After that experience, I realized I wasn’t cut for selling so consistently turned down every job opportunity that had the word sales -or any synonym of it- anywhere in its description.
I stayed true to my word just as the little elephant which grew up chained to a pole and died a strong, old and big elephant chained to that same tiny pole. If only he had tried only once more. But the elephant had tried, unsuccessfully, so many times when he was young that he learnt not to try anymore.
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Before you start looking for a job, you need to create your personal brand so by the time you need that job, the scenario would be set up. The day you decide to get a new (or first) job all you need to do is start your personal brand’s engine and let it run. A tweet, a status update on LinkedIn or a blog post expressing your desire to work for X,Y and/or Z is all you need to attract employers’ attention.
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Some people are specially good at selling themselves during job interviews and -are also capable of- maintaining the expectations set during it, once they get hired. But there’s a group out there that once they are hands on with the job, they miserably fail to keep up with the expectations they generated ...
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Weeks ago, Primer Magazine published “The 10 Most Common Job Interview Questions And The Reasons You Should Not Use Them” (link).
New England Job Show‘s editor, Jackie Simmonds, challenged me to flip the article around and orient it towards Job Seekers instead of Managers and Recruiters. My response to Jackie’s ...
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This post is a product from the collaboration project that Andrew C. Abraham and myself started a few months ago.
By Andrew C. Abraham.- It’s intern season. Many of the companies that I’m speaking to now are so busy with interns during this summer. I personally don’t have any internships under ...
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Migration is a phenomenon that not only applies to men, but animals too. If plants could walk, they’d migrate too.
Animal species have migrated since life popped in this planet. Cataclysmic events, climate changes or resource scarcity are some of the factors that have triggered mass migrations in a quest for ...
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