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Get the job you really want
While career planning and job seeking can be complicated topics, only two things are truly important in planning your career and in looking for a job:|
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If you are going to work, do
something you enjoy, are good at and want to do. |
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If you want to find or change your job,
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You have hundreds of skills. Most people do. But you probably take for granted things you do well that others would find hard or impossible to do. And because you take these for granted, explaining your skills for a desired position is difficult. One study of employers found that three out of four people who interviewed for a job did not represent the skills they had to do the job.
In career planning and job search, knowing what you can do well and being able to explain it is important. The better you understand yourself, the more successful you are at planning your future and the faster you get results.
Learn to identify a powerful new language to describe your skills and teach yourself to use this language in interviews. Learn to clearly define your job objective. If you know what sort of job you want, learn how to find out more about it and other jobs that use similar skills. And more importantly, learn that a career is different than a job. A job is what you do to earn money; a career is what you do with your life.
Career planning and job seeking are not easy. Luck plays a part, but you also have to work at it. The rewards are there if you do. This world holds an important place for you and you will find it eventually if you try.
From Getting the Job You Really Want, Fourth Edition by J. Michael Farr, © 2002. Used with permission of JIST Publishing, Inc.
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