People can find jobs {job}.
job
Jobs differ in salary, status, power, and security. Industries and companies grow and prosper at different rates. Promotion possibility is low for small and poorly performing businesses and high for large or growing businesses. Small businesses need more leadership, while large ones require more fitting in. Personal growth is unlikely in jobs that require little knowledge. Jobs differ in travel frequency and distance. Jobs differ in relocation frequency. Jobs can be in cities, towns and rural areas, or outside country.
Different organization types include governments, education, foundations, charities, other non-profits, large businesses, small businesses, franchises, partnerships, and individual ownership. Businesses can attract specific personality types. Different jobs require more or fewer people to work with, or to deal with. Jobs differ in responsibility and decision-making. Jobs can be quieter or have different smells. Jobs can require few or many supplies and equipment. Jobs can provide services to others or coerce and pressure others. Jobs require different knowledge levels. Jobs can have leisure time or be during seasons. Jobs can require problem solving.
Businesses can be new or old. New businesses put more value on growth and creativity. Old businesses put more value on security.
job: questions
Which jobs do you want to do? What are your ideal jobs, in value order? What skills do you need for those jobs? Do you have or will have skills needed? Do you have schedule of when you will fulfill goals and acquire skills? Have you thought about problems and risks you have in meeting plans? Is job type that you want related to needs, values, goals, and skills?
job: information
Newspapers, family, friends, government employment agencies, private employment agencies, college placement agencies, job registers, and job-title books have job-type information.
job: ad
You typically must respond to 20 or more advertisements to get one interview. Newspapers, journals, and online sites have advertisements. Some specialize in industries or professions. Always check target company websites or ask companies by email or letter.
Advertisements can have no company name {blind advertisement}, but usually they do {open advertisement}.
Ten days after answering advertisement, resend letter and resume.
job: conditions
Conditions are travel, commute, physical danger, detailed work, repetition, reading, writing, noise, temperature, crowding, stress, task number, regular hours, decision-making, working with others, self-scheduling, rural or urban, moving, teams/projects, subbing, temp, and contract.
network: current contacts
Initial contact can start with people {contacts} whom you know will return call, such as family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Other contacts can be suppliers, customers, personal professionals, community organizations, professional organizations, alumni, and religious groups.
Groups have networks, from which you can select people.
Close contacts typically cannot articulate what you do or how you do it. You must inform them.
You can list at least 10 initial contacts and typically 100. Use business cards, address books, email addresses, Christmas cards, and past correspondence to make list.
network: relationship
People can share their values, activities, and interests, such as among people in same family, company, religion, college, profession, political party, frequented businesses, or neighborhood {relationship network}.
Get referrals, advice, information about companies and markets, and feedback about your communications.
statements: differentiating
State your achievements, attitudes, or values, relative to work, that distinguish you from others with similar skills.
statements: previous organization
Do not criticize previous company, managers, or workers.
statements: alternative careers
State what you want, perhaps want, and do not want as job objective, job roles/tasks, target market, location, company size, company culture, travel, and schedule.
personal: age
Age supplies experience and short learning time. Age allows company not to provide career paths or succession lines. Age provides mentors. Age allows project-oriented work, without thinking about future authority lines. However, age can limit skills and knowledge, requiring training. Age can require higher salary. Age can resist change. Age can mean discomfort with younger supervisors. Age can demand power and status. Age can cause sickness, tiredness, laziness, and low curiosity. Age can require security. Age can engender cynicism, rather than optimism.
personal: feelings
What feelings do you have about your present life? What makes you happy and why? What pattern or continuity is in your life? What are the main drives and motivations?
personal: stress
People can have depression, anxiety, and anger, especially after rejections. This can cause lowered activity. Confidence and worth feelings can decrease. Friends and colleagues avoid you. Work loss causes irregular schedules, less organization, and more procrastination. Unemployed people have all responsibility, with no help from co-workers or company resources.
personal: goals
What are your goals? What hopes do you have for the future? What things do you want to accomplish someday? Why do you want to do them? What do you wish and desire? Are you active, assertive, and confident enough to reach goals? Do you need, or like, help from someone else?
personal: likes
What things do you want to own or work with? What are pleasantest and most unpleasant memories, hobbies, people, places, activities, or achievements? Why were they good or not good? What things, people, and activities do you avoid?
personal: traits
Traits can be about personality opposites, such as extrovert/introvert or detail-oriented/high-level.
personal: values
Values are about what is important to you, what is important in society, and what most humans share. Personal values are about status, wealth, power, independence, risk-taking, control, religion, relations with people, reactions to mistakes, need for approval, and need for achievement. Societal values affect language, classes, education, government, law, economics, businesses, and associations. Human values are attitudes toward life, war/peace, love, hardship, and justice.
personal: job values
What value do security, status, power, wealth, service to others, knowledge, leisure time, responsibility, chance to make decisions, and problem solving have? What can change right now to make things better for others and self?
personal: strengths
State strengths relative to company needs.
personal: weaknesses
State how perceived weaknesses is really advantage or state what you are doing to remedy your weakness.
To choose a career {career planning}, you can use personality tests, aptitude tests, counseling, job and job market studies, industry studies, and motivation.
Hires cost fees {contingency fee}| or retainers for long-term services.
Identify yourself to secretary {gatekeeper}. Be courteous. Collect names. Leave voice mail with your name, shared contact, reason for call, and when you will call back.
To get job {hiring}|, manager or executive that can hire you must get to know you. Managers know company needs, goals, problems, and specific work needed.
hiring process
For one quarter of job openings, managers create applicant pools, screen applicants, and interview people.
For few jobs, managers create positions to meet company needs as identified by applicants, applicants discuss job with hiring manager and develop proposals, and company hires.
For most jobs, managers already have applicants, and company hires one.
You typically contact 20 to 30 hiring managers before getting job. Recontact hiring managers every two to four weeks.
hiring manager
You must meet the manager that can hire you. Meet before there is job opening, if possible. Send resumes and introductory cover letters to such managers at target companies, located online or through contacts, and get referrals, if possible. Set up meeting by telephone. Try to have at least two talks each week. Study companies, departments, and projects. List questions about goals, products, projects, achievements, challenges, values, and culture. Have job objective. Have positioning statement. Have resume. Have calendar.
meeting
To set up meeting, state your name. State who referred you and relationship, or state how you found manager name. State meeting purpose: to give manager useful information, to discuss common interest, to present your ideas, or to discuss industry in location. Suggest time.
Place is at manager office.
Meet for 30 minutes. Talk about who referred you and relationship, meeting purposes, and objectives. Discuss company and manager needs. Show how your accomplishments and competencies meet those needs. Arrange second meeting or notify that you will follow up.
followup
Follow with letter, telephone call, and meeting, every two to four weeks. Do not request anything; only thank and give more information. Start with line that must elicit answer. Be sincere and energetic.
effort
Job seeker typically requires five serious interviews to get job. Jobseeker gets five serious interviews out of 20 or 30 talks with hiring managers.
Department managers {managing} hire and direct work groups, such as programmers or writers. Senior manager heads company function, such as for similar products or information technology. Regional manager leads local department managers. General manager or senior executive heads company or unit and is responsible for profits and losses (P & L).
Work {objective, job} can be sales, marketing, manufacturing, legal, human resources, public relations, information technology, finance, senior management, technical support, product testing, engineering, software development, or communications. List roles or tasks that you like or in which you have experience. Dictionary of Occupational Titles from USA Department of Labor lists job titles.
People can introduce you to other people {referral}.
Hires can cost contingency fees or there are long-term services fees {retainer, agency}|.
Association meetings, volunteer work, workshops, tradeshows, and web sites {resource, job} {job resources} provide networking.
employment agencies
State employment agency offers career transition aids, job training, job search help, placement service, job referrals, unemployment insurance, and disability insurance.
library
Public library has business section and career information, such as information about companies, associations, and governments.
maps
Maps are available online.
networking online
Online networks provide site for networking.
online
Online sites provide searchable job listings, information about careers, salaries, information about industries, information about companies, and searchable articles. They help with resumes and allow resume posting. Many are specific to location, recruiter, industry, government, or skill. Information about stocks, finances, startups, capital flows, and statistics is online.
Make business card with name, job type or job objectives, competencies, telephone, fax, URI, and email {job documents}. Add qualifications summary on back.
For story {accomplishment story}, state activity/responsibility/problem/situation, difficulties that you faced, your action, and quantified results. For statement {accomplishment statement}, state action and result. Such statements/stories define your skills, knowledge, and roles.
Activities are solving problems, starting new system/procedure, managing people, deciding, planning, participating in team, and writing report or other publication.
Results are increasing efficiency, accuracy, money, productivity, or morale; decreasing cost or time; and getting bonus, compliment, honor, or promotion.
Summarize your career {career profile}.
summary
List ten favorite things that you did. List ten things that you liked least. List locations at which you can work. List industries and companies. Note company sizes and styles. List job types. List ideal job and company. List compensation that you want/expect. List long-term objectives. List objective risks/constraints.
resume
List knowledge and skills. List all jobs in chronological order, from most recent back. List education and training. List credentials and licenses. List honors. List publications and creative works. List community activities. List recreational activities. List languages. List references.
At letter {cover letter}| top, write name, address, email address, and telephone number. Write date. Write recipient name, title, organization, and address. Write salutation to "Manager". State job title and location and where advertisement was. Talk about company. Match job description/requirements to your experience, competencies, and skills. Optionally state your knowledge of, and value to, company. State that you enclose resume. State that you will call or email and ask for interview at set time. Thank reader for time and attention. Close with "Sincerely," and your name.
State what happened at company over last year, then state that you are looking for new opportunities, in company type, in job type {exit statement}. It answers the questions "Why did you leave your job?" and "Why are you looking for work?".
At letter {followup letter} top, write name, address, email address, and telephone number. Write date. Write recipient name, title, organization, and address. Write salutation to interviewer. Thank interviewer and state job title and location. Review how job description/requirements matched your experience and skills. Correct errors, add requested information, and add new thoughts. State that you will call or email. Close with "Sincerely," and your name.
Write a plan {marketing plan} to market yourself. Plan has job objectives and preferences within that objective, Positioning Statement with competencies list, Target Market, and Target List. Have two plans and pursue both at once.
State achievements that you want to accomplish in life {mission statement}.
State your competencies, skills, and knowledge, with experiences and personal characteristics {positioning statement}. State company types, sizes, and cultures. State what you see as your unique strengths in competency or skill. Positioning statements answer the request "Tell me about yourself."
State name, title, department, company, and telephone number {references}|. People check references before or after last interview. Businesses check references mainly by telephone. References can be co-workers, supervisors, subordinates, customers, suppliers, association members, team members, and project members. Do not use friends or non-work-related references. Always state relationship. Ask permission and give them resume copy. Keep in contact with references.
Job applications can include education, skill, experience, and objective summaries {resume} {resumé}|.
types
Resumes have heading, objective, summary, work history with responsibilities and bulleted accomplishments, education, training, skills, memberships, languages, licenses/credentials, military, and publications.
Chronological resumé lists work history from recent to former and is for same type job, in traditional companies. Functional resumé emphasizes qualifications and is for career changes or returns to career.
purposes
Resumes show that you have education and experience in industry, company type, and/or job.
length
Use one or two pages.
look
Make it typewritten. Use 12-point font. Use 65 characters per line. End lines with returns. Do not use tabs. Use asterisks for bullets. Separate sections with dashes. Do not use bold or underline, only uppercase. Check for spelling and grammar.
Email resume to yourself and check it.
style
Do not use "I", only verbs. Use short paragraphs. Do not abbreviate.
parts: heading
At top, write your name, address, email address, and telephone number.
parts: objective
Write short description, including company type and industry, of job for which you are applying.
parts: qualifications summary
Summarize your qualifications and career highlights.
parts: skills
List your skills for this job, such as training, with number of years, and languages.
parts: education
List school name, degree, field, year, and honors. List credentials you have that job requires.
parts: experience
List employers, addresses, dates, job titles, and job descriptions, including responsibilities, activities, achievements, honors, and promotions. For jobs, state problem/project/responsibility, your solution, and quantified results.
Show continuous work history, with no gaps. You do not need to use months, only years.
parts: organizations
List professional societies, clubs, honors, community work, hobbies, and sports. Give military record only if required.
parts: references
State that references will be sent on request, or, if required, list three references, including name, address, and phone, using one teacher, one employer, and one character witness.
parts: publications
List publications.
leave out
Do not use photographs, age, marital status, children, or other personal information.
Summarize your experience, skills, and competencies {summary statement}, using job-description and target-market keywords. First state job title, responsibilities, and traits in one paragraph and then list your competencies/accomplishments.
List 50 companies at which you want to work {target list}. State company size, by revenue or employees. State organization style or culture. Include name, address, email, phone, URI, contact name and phone, size, and financial status. Concentrate on managers that can hire you. Read about target company needs, products, services, finances, history, customers, workers, locations, sizes, and cultures. Add, subtract, and prioritize targets. Talk to people in organizations and send resumes/cover letters, read printed and online newspapers, journals, and databases. Check target competitors.
Write company type, job type, challenges, excitements, honors, and achievements {vision statement} that you expect in next five years.
Agencies {employment agency}| {staffing agency} can help you get interviews, but chance is low. Agencies differ by industry or profession, and by success rates. Employers pay fees. You must sign contract.
Agencies {executive search firm} {recruiter}| {headhunter} can help you get interviews, but chance is low. Agencies differ by industry or profession, and by success rates. Employers pay recruiters. Hires can cost contingency fees or retainers for long-term services. Recruiters use customers, competitors, suppliers, association executives, regulatory agency officials, faculty members, publication editors, and industry lawyers, financiers, and accountants {sourcing}. Insist that they notify you before they send resume to anyone.
If resume is successful, you will have interview {interview}|.
preparation
Wear conservative clothes, like suit. Groom well. Look neat. You already have confidence that you can do job well and that job fits your goals and skills. Be ready to be confident, sincere, smiling, energetic, and friendly. Be ready to listen. Be ready to treat everyone courteously and with respect. List references. List questions. Copy the resume. Take your research notes. Take your correspondence. Obtain interviewer names and titles. Ready your accomplishment stories and competencies. Check materials and web site about company. Find key names. Determine allotted time. Arrive early enough to read lobby materials.
interview formats
Traditional interview has interviewer asking questions and applicant answering. Strategic interview has interviewer asking questions and applicant answering, plus discussion of company and manager needs and applicant competencies relative to needs.
questions
Questions are about experience, skills, latest job, work experience, activities, accomplishments, competencies, style, and values. Questions are about why you like this company and contributions you could make. Questions about age, birthplace, nationality, race, religion, arrests, marital status, children, height, weight, drugs, hobbies, unions, and disabilities are not appropriate.
questions: goals
Questions are about objective, goals, ideal job, three-year to five-year goal, career-change plans, previous goals and results, motivations, and values.
questions: problems
Questions are about job-related problems, reason for leaving, dislikes, likes, and drug test.
questions: training
Questions are about education, training, courses, uses, and problems solved.
questions: weaknesses
Questions {knockout questions} are about weaknesses, weakness situations, problems, strengths, overqualifications, criticisms received, boredom, laziness, pressure responses, conflicts, diversity, power use, disagreements with boss, and adaptability. State that you are overcoming them or learning from them.
questions: salary
Questions are about salary or range.
question: types
Interview has three question types. Why do you want job in company? What can you do for company or person? What is salary you want? Talk about the future you expect to have with company in job, not about future jobs. Talk about organization needs, problems, and future. Show how your skills fit those needs. Be ready for questions about the past. Give usual salary range for job.
style
Be informal and friendly. Use two or three sentence answers. Do not say anything bad about oneself. Remember that interviewer probably has little skill in interviewing. Do not apologize or be defensive. Admit you do not know. Do not argue or become irritated.
If asked about which job type you want, tell why you like industry, why you like company, why you like job, and what your career plans are. If asked why you want to leave present job, or why you do not have job, talk about what you want more of, such as responsibility, opportunity to be creative or independent, field or industry knowledge, self knowledge, personal development, and/or salary. If asked about present job, talk about chances for promotion, achievements, and present salary. If asked about your present job and workers, state facts without criticizing workers, supervisors, or company. If asked about skills, state your best skills, how skills relate to job and company needs, and situations in which you used skill. If asked about weaknesses, state weakness only if you mention what you are doing to correct it and without apology. If asked to take tests, say yes.
conclusion
Summarize meeting and express interest. Arrange second meeting or contact. Send followups. Do not accept job at interview. State time you will give answer. After job offer, discuss salary and get offer and salary in writing.
People {interviewee} need to know if skills, experience, and competencies are enough and liked, to see the fit with company people and culture, and to receive enough pay and benefits.
interviewee questions
Responsibilities, job description, expectations, immediate needs, position history, next higher position, qualifications needed {interviewee questions}. Resources, co-workers, current experience, current training, training programs, budget, support from other departments. Authority, hiring/terminating, command chain, reports, supervisor history, supervisor experience, supervisor training, decision-making process, documented procedures, documented policies, budgeting, approvals. Performance, goals, goal making process, evaluation process, expectations, rewards/bonuses/promotions, review periods. Culture, management style, formality level, tight or loose structure, relations between departments/projects, turnover rate, position openings, internal candidates.
People {interviewer} needs to know your skills, experience, and competencies, to see how you fit with company people and culture, and to see how much is enough pay and benefits.
Interviewer asks about your past experience to show competencies and values, to test technical skills and performance skills {behavior-based interview}. Use accomplishment stories and competency list. You have five competencies, each with five stories.
Workers ask about your past experience to show competencies and values {group interview} {panel interview}. Use accomplishment stories and competency list. You have five competencies, each with five stories. Present to group and people. Use names and titles.
Interviewer reviews job requirements, your resume, and your qualifications {screening interview} {initial interview}. Interviewer asks about your education, skills, and experiences. It lasts 10 to 30 minutes. Use accomplishment stories and competency list. Talk about five competencies, each with five stories. Obtain interviewer name and number.
Interviewer reviews job requirements, your resume, and your qualifications {telephone interview}. Interviewer asks about your education, skills, and experiences. It lasts 10 to 30 minutes. Use accomplishment stories and competency list. Talk about five competencies, each with five stories. Obtain interviewer name and number.
Recommendation letters {job recommendation} {recommendation} can have form.
recommender address
Number and Street. City and State. Telephone. Date.
recipient address
Street Address.
introduction
This is recommendation letter for ... I have been his/her teacher and academic advisor for ... years. I have taught him/her ...
attendance
His/Her attendance is ...
attention
He/She pays attention and contributes.
behavior
His/Her behavior is ...
creativity
His/Her creativity is ..., originality is ..., imagination is ..., and ideas are ...
curiosity
His/Her curiosity is ..., interest is ..., desire to learn is ..., and asking of questions is ...
English
His/Her overall English ability is ..., writing ability is ..., speaking ability is ..., listening ability is ..., and reading ability is ...
goals and skills
His/Her career goals are ..., strength of career goals is ..., motivation is ..., intellectual ability is ..., work habits are ..., preparation in general is ..., preparation in the major is ..., overall potential is ..., research potential is ..., and teaching potential is ...
homework
His/Her papers and/or homework is on time, neat, accurate, organized, and complete.
laboratory
His/Her laboratory work is ..., laboratory notebook is ..., skills and competence in laboratory are ..., safety is ..., carefulness is ..., organization is ..., neatness is ..., and extra work was ...
other activities
His/Her outside reading is ..., fitness is ..., sports are ..., leads in ..., participates in ..., awards and honors are ..., dance, music, art, hobbies are ...
others
He/She can stand competition, accepts criticism, helps others, desires to help others, needs help from others, and has others' respect.
problem solving
His/Her problem solving is ..., problem-solving enjoyment is ..., problem solving motivation is ..., logical thinking is ..., analytical thinking is ..., and synthetic thinking is ...
qualities
His/Her responsibility is ..., honesty is ..., work independence is ..., work with others is ..., getting along with others is ..., maturity is ..., self-discipline is ..., self-confidence is ..., and perseverance is ...
writing
His/Her overall writing ability is ..., grammar is ..., organization is ..., neatness is ..., imagination is ..., vocabulary is ..., spelling is ..., style is ..., transitions are ..., conciseness is ..., order is ..., information is ..., and ideas are ...
financial aid
He/She needs financial aid.
recommendation
I give overall recommendation ... I hope you will accept ... for your program.
closing
Sincerely, X.
People can search for job information {job search} using steps. Study industries, trends, futures, companies, locations, cultures/styles, and sizes. Research trends in your profession or job type and review needed competencies.
review
Review your employment and personal history and list likes, dislikes, achievements, reasons for leaving, skills/knowledge/roles, and current situation as to age, family, monetary needs, and location. Consider your personal interests, motivations, preferences, characteristics, and values. Preferences are location, work schedule, income, and lifestyle. List everything you like to do. Think about your life over next five years and what you want to achieve by then.
writing
Write job objective. Write positioning statement. Write exit statement. Write accomplishment statements and stories. Write resumé and post it on secure sites. Write cover letter. Write followup letter. Define target market. Define target list. Write marketing plan. Practice interview.
actions
Use Internet and other resources to find jobs. Study target-list companies. Contact people at target companies and at job advertisements. Network with friends, colleagues, neighbors, association members, and so on. Record all contacts: date, contact type, name, title, organization, address, work telephone, home telephone, cell telephone, email, URI, other people suggested, company information, and date and nature of planned next contact. Contact type is letter, phone, email, lunch, conversation, or interview. Try to reach managers that are actually hiring. Interview human resources, workers, managers, and hiring managers. Negotiate salary and benefits. Begin properly at new job.
People can have interest and knowledge in economic sector {target market}.
industries
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes identify industries. List industries, which need you, in which you want to work. Learn about possible new technologies or methods.
characteristics
List locations at which you want to work. Write company size, by revenue or employees. State organization style or culture: startup or established, project or department oriented, ethnic diversity, gender diversity, practical jokes or witty humor, formal or informal dress, many or few management layers, formal or informal authority, and mistake tolerance.
jobs
Estimate number of available jobs in target market. Expand market to more related market segments, wider geographic region, or different company sizes and cultures. You need at least ten job applications per month. If there are more than 50 each month, tighten market to limit company number. Consider commute, relocation, objective, company size, and company type.
Companies {target companies} belong to industries, which produce and use specific goods and services. Companies have needs, goals, and problems. Companies have methods to meet needs, reach goals, and solve problems.
methods
Companies have different operation methods relative to customers and staff. Companies can be hard driving and competitive or easy-going and cooperative. Companies have good will with the public. Companies have important people, who have personalities.
jobs
Companies have available and desirable jobs. Jobs at company meet needs, help reach goals, or solve problems. People that work at company have ability to do those jobs, understand jobs, have ideas about how companies function, and have experience in that industry, company type, and job type. Jobs have turnover rate and morale level.
factors
Companies have organizational hierarchy, with politics and problems. Companies are in desirable and undesirable areas. Companies have subsidiaries and/or control other companies.
information
Visiting and talking to people, by introduction or appointment, can obtain information. Libraries, newspapers, and books have information.
Converse {networking}| with people about targets, industries, and jobs more than 20 times each week until you get job. You typically must talk with more than 100 people to get job. Talk with co-workers, supervisors, subordinates, customers, suppliers, association members, team members, project members, friends, and neighbors. Use letters, resumes, emails, and faxes.
Join industry or professional association. Participate in project or committee.
Check back with mentors and teachers.
Add 10 or more people to contact list each week.
Initial contact can start with people whom you know will return call.
Follow up contacts, every two to four weeks.
Cold call and mail directly to company contacts unreachable otherwise.
networking online
Email contact source, possible shared interest, job objective, and positioning statement. Identify yourself. Use respectable email address.
Companies have people {contact person} to whom to talk.
Meet for 30 minutes. Talk about who referred you and relationship and meeting purpose, to discuss industry in location.
Use your job objective, positioning statement, and exit statement. Show marketing plan and targets. Ask for information about people, needs, and finances for targets. Obtain referral name, organization, and title, especially for people in target. Help contact with your own information and referrals. Thank contact.
Follow with letter or email, every two to four weeks.
Inform people that you have contacted their referrals.
Meet with referrals as soon as possible.
initial contact example
Hello M. I was just calling to see how you are doing. I hope everything is going good for you! and your family, too! Let me know if I can help you with anything. If you know of possible jobs for me, I appreciate hearing about them. I will give you commission! I am looking for tech writing jobs in companies that depend on biology or science. Maybe I can earn two salaries at once! Talk to you soon!
Have decision date and meet it {closing the job offer}. Have a written offer or confirmation letter {registered letter}. Do not resign yet. Make sure all references have been checked, all drug and medical tests done, and all clearances received. Do not announce job until final. Search jobs until final.
Negotiate after offer {negotiating}. Always give yourself time to have a written offer and prepare a written response. You can negotiate salary, commission, profit sharing, job description, start date, vacations, holidays, authority, budgeting, support, reporting, relocation, insurance, pension, 401K, contract, memberships, stock, expenses, car, discounts, tuition/fees, dining privileges, travel, housing, services, and bonuses. Insurance can be medical, dental, eye, life, disability, and accident. First, negotiate money, then benefits. Negotiate first the present, then the future.
Follow up after starting new job {starting at new job}.
Notify all contacts that you have new job and thank them. Notify other companies, if necessary. Keep contact with many people. Review your job announcement so you can present yourself well: state your goals, address controversies, state relevant or prestigious background, avoid negatives, and stay energetic and enthusiastic.
List questions for supervisor and subordinates, to know problems and expectations. Start to network with co-workers, based on company and industry knowledge. Support others and ask questions. Learn culture, style, and methods: deference to leader or no single leader, argument or consensus, interruption or leave alone, cliques or open groups, competition or collaboration, joking and wit or serious, boastful or modest.
Plan your development. Score with early successful projects and plan for longer-term projects.
People have job skills {skill, job}.
tasks Skills can be about communicating, coordinating, developing people, managing finances, managing data, managing projects, organizing, planning, selling, marketing, serving, computing, designing, inventing, manufacturing, researching, programming, developing products, teaching, and writing.
types
Skills involve people, things, or data.
Simple data skills include comparing, sorting, copying, compiling, summarizing, computing, and calculating. Complex data skills include analyzing, problem solving, innovating, finding new ideas in old ones, coordinating data flow, synthesizing, and creating theories or summaries.
Simple people skills include helping, serving, taking instructions or data, and relaying or exchanging information. Complex people skills include counseling, negotiating, ruling, supervising, advising, consulting, instructing, teaching, treating, coaching, leading, persuading, diverting, and handling.
Simple thing skills include tending, watching, loading, unloading, transferring, sorting, driving, and controlling. Complex thing skills include operating, servicing, coordinating, manipulating, organizing, setting up, fixing, working with precision instruments, and designing.
questions
What skills do you have? What problems are you good at solving? What skills do you enjoy? Can you perform simple skills? Can you perform complex skills, involving independence, decision making, and problem solving? Are people, things, or data skills most important to you? What skills do you like to have?
Competencies {competencies} can be about skill and trait combinations. Companies have core competencies. Your competencies match those core competencies. Examples are education, childcare, word processing, project management, department management, international relations, budgeting, planning, auditing, communicating, persuading, market analysis, marketing, databases, object-oriented programming, data security, software development, and product development.
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