FINDING THE RIGHT JOB
Ever notice how many people here on Monster's message board arecomplaining about how difficult it is to find the right job? Orasking for advice about finding a job because they've been search solong? Did you also notice there isn't any advise about findingthe RIGHT job? There is only advise about finding a job, not theright job. Finding the right job is never easy & it neverwill be. Unless the job is a minimum wage paying job, then it'sprobably going to be very difficult to find the right job. If youdo find the right job fast, then consider yourself both lucky &impressive. Headhunters, recruiters & employment agencies try to simplify thejob search by matching people with jobs by using only basicfactors. They try to take these factors like workexperience, salary requirements, location, education, etc. & matchthose factors with job descriptions & requirements of the hiringcompanies. This process is nothing like playing the card matchinggame you learned as a kid. Candidates they find may beoverqualified or under qualified for the jobs they are trying tomatch. Or the salary range may not be what the candidates areseeking. Plus not all jobs are advertised. Some arefilled by networking & who you know. There are so many factors that go into matching the right candidateswith the right jobs, it's impossible to list all of them. It cantake up to a year or more to find that ideal job you areseeking. Everything from world economic situations tocompany finances to employee personality traits can all play factorsinto finding your ideal job & company. The keys to findingthe right job are knowing what you want & staying focused onfinding your ideal job. Be positive & persistent. Don'twavier, get side tracked, or accept less than what you want, & workto find it. It's out there. You just have to find it. Iknow it's not easy. How do I know? We'll I've been looking for the right jobfor the past 9 months now and I still haven't found it yet. I'veturned away several recruiters all of whom all thought I would be agood candidate for the same job where I had interviewed 2 monthpreviously. Most recently I've interviewed with 7 differentcompanies where I live since being laid off from my last job 5 monthsago, I've had 3-4 phone interviews locally & nationally, &talked with countless employment agencies/recruiters locally &nationally too. I once interviewed with 11 different companies ina 5 month period before I even got a job offer. Even after thatjob offer, I still had more questions to ask to make sure it was theright job. Everything goes in cycles & eventually things will go yourway. You will find the right job & be in demand again. If you aren't in demand now, don't get discouraged. You will be& when you are, your career will taking off again. It'sjust involves being very patient & waiting it out in some cases avery long time. So just hang in there. Eventually you willfind the right job & things will work out in your favor. Juststay focused on your search. It's out there. This is the way I see the "right job" and the "dream job". There are no such animals. You can look at a job description and think to yourself "Yes, perfect. It is just what I want. Nothing about it is wrong." Well, that is just fine and dandy, but nothing is as wonderful as it what it sounds like. There is something wrong with every job. You may not be doing something that the job description had in it. You may be doing more than what the job description advertised. The actual work may be what you want, but the people yo are working with are wrong. In other words, the "right job" is how and what you make of it. The "dream job" is the job you have had dreams about. The job you think about wanting every night and picturing in your head just before the sandman takes you. And that is where it exists. In your dreams. This job does not exist outside of your imagination because your boss is a nightmare. Your clients give you indigestion. Every case you go to trial on will bring out the "Perry Mason" in you. In other words, the "dream job" is when you are sleeping. BUT, you can make the best out of most any job that you get. You need to work just as hard at that aspect of your career as at the actual work you do for the company you have opted to work for. To give you an example of the "right" type of job....I will not work for a company that make product that goes against my moral & values in the world. So right or ideal jobs do exist, as do wrong jobs. If the company product or job go against your morals & values, then it's probably not the right job no matter how much it pays. I will not work for a company that make a product that I won't indorse. So it appears there is a difference of opinion...right & wrong jobs do exist. | |
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