job

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.

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