by Angela Wahome,
Job searching alone is like walking on a deserted path alone in the pitch black darkness of the night, you never know what to expect; besides will you get to where you are hoping to be? Ever feel imprisoned by a job where you feel you do not have enough satisfaction, you are not advancing or you are not able to have a future when you look for a job. Basically you are stuck in a rut.
Job searching alone is like walking on a deserted path alone in the pitch black darkness of the night, you never know what to expect; besides will you get to where you are hoping to be? Ever feel imprisoned by a job where you feel you do not have enough satisfaction, you are not advancing or you are not able to have a future when you look for a job. Basically you are stuck in a rut.
Moving can become difficult when you have worked in any of the following fields; worked in job that you did not use your key skills, you are too specialised, you failed to plan for the future, you waited and waited for the perfect job, you have been in a job position (which offered no challenge or growth) with the same company for a very long time. Here is what you may do to get back into the workforce.
1.Know the job market. Locate and identify job market great needs that you can fill. Search out emerging industries. Grow up and lose the idea that there will be a secure job that is competitive.
2. Know your functional and industry options and employers’ needs in these areas. Pinpoint your top three positioning career focused alternatives to what you’re now doing. Find the types of organizations/Biasharas that serve that market segment.
3. Know your most marketable skills, competency, and relevant background. Create a personal brand make sure you identify and use the things that make you unique and stand out. You will outshine your competitors. Think of how you can catch the attention of the employer that will hire you.
4. Learn how to get and do well in interviews. Find three main strategies that will help expose you and penetrate the job market for the advertised and unadvertised jobs that exist. Once you have identified what you need to do it is important that you should continue to do them in a consistent way.
5. Understand how to created information about you that sells you as a solution. Make good use of the knowledge you have of the people that would be interested in you and find a way to have them see what they will be looking for in you.
6. Know how to multiply your access to those who have the power to hire. Networking can be a bit of a challenge. You may choose to building strategic relationships with people that may be in the position to hire you.
7. Name and shame the part of you that puts you down. When you find that you are putting yourself down, listen, say “Thank you for sharing,” and then keep putting one foot in front of the other to make sure that you need to keep doing what you need to do to get moving in the right direction.
8. A professionally-run job search will get you there faster. It gives you defined direction and leverage to compare, negotiate, and deal from strength.
Try to imagine the alternative; walking blindly in the dark at the mercy of fate, now do you see why it is not wise to take the trip alone. Enlist all the people you feel can help you begin to find a way how to make a living.
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