"The Job Seeker's Guide"OPERATIONS – REVIEW
This is a good time to take a closer look at a few things. Begin with where you were when you first looked at The Job Seekers Guide Out of a job, or about to be, and in all probability not knowing what to do about getting another.
Lots of ideas, lots of energy, lots of good intentions and no control whatsoever over your train of thought. You were bright enough to know you had a problem to resolve, but you didn't have to be over bright to figure that one out.
Your confidence will build as you evaluate the tasks that need to be done, and you will feel more and more optimistic about your chances of securing employment. If all that The Job Seekers Guide has done is to show you how to organise your thoughts then you will feel much the better for it.
Much more will be forthcoming now that you are about to go out into the field. Your confidence and self worth, as it builds, will carry you through with a degree of ease that you hitherto never thought possible.
Review for yourself the areas that have been covered.
Look at the various sections again, briefly, and see how they form a pattern.
Then look again, carefully, and try to assess what you have learned from them. Treat them as bench marks. Tick them off as you assess your level of competence. The information you have gained from those bench marks will enable you to go into the field and be effective.
You will be able to:
It will not. I know of nothing that will, and I have looked long and hard.
What it will do, and do very effectively, if you have read, studied and inwardly digested the information contained in its sections, is put you at the forefront of the job hunters.
Skilfully communicating with those who will provide you with the information that is central to your success. It's called: Interpersonal relationships. Don't be alarmed, it's not a title dreamed up by a psychiatrist, and it's easy.
So far I have discussed a wide variety of subjects. In the main they mainly concerned you. How you view yourself, how you think and how you control, or fail to control, your train of thought. I have confronted you with some stark facts and made you look hard and long at them. All this was, is and will continue to be to build your self worth. If you don't have it, the world and his dog will know it, and think the less of you for being without it.
In my early days I had difficulty doing just that. Facing up to the realisation of what I was, where I was and where I was going was not for me. I preferred to dream.
Self delusion ruled supreme.
I learned the hard way. I hope that you, by dedicated study of The Job Seekers Guide, will be spared some of those hard and painful lessons. To achieve this I have quoted various experiences and the odd anecdote. Personally I hate the over use of anecdotes so they have only been used where they had a real contribution to make.
I could have listed what you had to do in the order you had to do ti and left it at that. A sort of The Job Seekers Guide by numbers. Do this first, then move on to so and so. The list would have been useless and the results even worse. You would have felt, quite rightly, let down to the point of feeling cheated. You would have felt you had been taken for a ride.
Information has to be assimilated at a rate and in a form with which the reader can identify, whatever subject is being addressed. I hope I have achieved this objective.
It's tough if I haven't. The next step is the big one.
This is the collision of shoe leather and pavement followed by some face to face encounters that will prove interesting and stimulating, to put it mildly.
You decided you would need help solving your problem and bought into The Job Seekers Guide.
If you have read and conscientiously studied all the sections so far, and there's a long way to go yet, you should by now seeing light at the end of the tunnel.Your confidence will build as you evaluate the tasks that need to be done, and you will feel more and more optimistic about your chances of securing employment. If all that The Job Seekers Guide has done is to show you how to organise your thoughts then you will feel much the better for it.
Much more will be forthcoming now that you are about to go out into the field. Your confidence and self worth, as it builds, will carry you through with a degree of ease that you hitherto never thought possible.
Review for yourself the areas that have been covered.
Look at the various sections again, briefly, and see how they form a pattern.
Then look again, carefully, and try to assess what you have learned from them. Treat them as bench marks. Tick them off as you assess your level of competence. The information you have gained from those bench marks will enable you to go into the field and be effective.
You will be able to:
- Define the tasks to be undertaken
- Examine possible options
- Calculate the effects of the various options.
- Decide which option is the right one
It will not. I know of nothing that will, and I have looked long and hard.
What it will do, and do very effectively, if you have read, studied and inwardly digested the information contained in its sections, is put you at the forefront of the job hunters.
The knowledge and experience I have passed on to you will certainly enable you to stand out, of that you can be sure.
There are many more interesting lessons yet to be learned.
These will deal with one of life's greatest challenges: dealing with people.Skilfully communicating with those who will provide you with the information that is central to your success. It's called: Interpersonal relationships. Don't be alarmed, it's not a title dreamed up by a psychiatrist, and it's easy.
So far I have discussed a wide variety of subjects. In the main they mainly concerned you. How you view yourself, how you think and how you control, or fail to control, your train of thought. I have confronted you with some stark facts and made you look hard and long at them. All this was, is and will continue to be to build your self worth. If you don't have it, the world and his dog will know it, and think the less of you for being without it.
In my early days I had difficulty doing just that. Facing up to the realisation of what I was, where I was and where I was going was not for me. I preferred to dream.
Self delusion ruled supreme.
I learned the hard way. I hope that you, by dedicated study of The Job Seekers Guide, will be spared some of those hard and painful lessons. To achieve this I have quoted various experiences and the odd anecdote. Personally I hate the over use of anecdotes so they have only been used where they had a real contribution to make.
I could have listed what you had to do in the order you had to do ti and left it at that. A sort of The Job Seekers Guide by numbers. Do this first, then move on to so and so. The list would have been useless and the results even worse. You would have felt, quite rightly, let down to the point of feeling cheated. You would have felt you had been taken for a ride.
Information has to be assimilated at a rate and in a form with which the reader can identify, whatever subject is being addressed. I hope I have achieved this objective.