Career 03 (Apr 12 - Jul 19)

[behappyalways]

Syrian doctor turned people smuggler who has made £60,000 this month alone
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... alone.html

[winston]

"What keeps so many employees back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort."

-- Orison Swett Marden

[winston]

How to Force Your Boss to Give You a Raise By Mark Ford

Over the years, I've had the awkward duty of declining raises to dozens of employees.

Most of them simply sulked and disappeared. But a few of them took the experience as a wake-up call and fought back.

They didn't see themselves as losers, and they weren't going to let me view them that way, either.

If you get turned down for a raise, arguing with your boss won't do you any good.

But if you can take advantage of the situation by following the simple, five-step plan listed below, you may be surprised at how dramatically you can improve your future income…

1. Thank your boss.

Yes, thank him or her. If you didn't get the raise you wanted, there is a very good chance it's because you didn't deserve it. If you are like most people, this idea is going to be very hard to try on.

But if you spend some time thinking very objectively about your performance – asking yourself questions such as, "Was I always early?" "Did I stay late?" and "Was I always eager, energetic, and helpful?" – you will probably come to see your performance for what it was: less than stellar.

If you thank your boss for making you see the light, you'll shock him or her into paying attention to you. If you follow that up with some kind of modest pledge to do better, your boss will be watching for you to do so.

2. Come in earlier.

There is no more impressive way to show you are serious about your work than to get in earlier than you have been. A half-hour is enough. If you can, get in before your boss does. Get in earlier, and make sure your boss knows it.

3. Work harder.

However hard you've been working so far, it hasn't been enough to establish you as the No. 1 worker in your department. Getting in earlier and then paying complete and serious attention to your work will demonstrate your intent.

As time goes by, the extra time and energy you give your job will show up in higher-level skills, better knowledge, and – most probably – more money.

4. Get more training.

Take every chance you get to become better educated about your job. Take advantage of whatever programs your company offers.

If something comes up and your company doesn't want to pay for it, pay for it yourself. (As with working harder, you don't want to let your extra training go unnoticed.)

5. Help your boss plan your future.

After a few weeks as the "new" you, ask for an appointment with your boss. He or she may be afraid you are going to ask for a raise. Assure your boss that nothing is further from your mind.

When you get your boss alone, reconfirm your gratitude for the wake-up call, brief him or her on the changes and improvements you've made, and then ask what else he or she thinks you can do to move forward even faster.

Don't ask for anything in return. Make it seem as if job satisfaction is your only interest.

This is a radical approach.

95% of people who read this will never give it a try. You may be the exception. If you are, you will see dramatic results.

Your income will improve in six months or less – and it will keep improving thereafter.

Before you know it, you'll be at a whole new level. Just as important – or maybe more important – your job satisfaction will skyrocket.

You'll like your job better because you'll be better at it – and everyone around you will take notice, including your boss.


Source: The Palm Beach Research Group

[winston]

One of These Will Make Your Career Take Off

By Craig Ballantyne

My mentor, Mark Ford, taught me that having a single overriding priority that you dedicate your time and energy towards will allow you to achieve greater success than you ever thought possible.

If you’re a salesman, selling must be your #1 priority at work. Not filing expense reports. Not checking email. But selling.

Every morning you must get up, and like a lion in the Serengeti, you must begin your hunt.

You know you have to outrun, out-hustle, and out-sell the other salesmen if you want to eat.

When it comes to business, know what matters, and don’t get lost in the details.

Source: ETR

[winston]

Career Advice for College Grads

What career and life advice do you give to new college grads?

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson: I keep it pretty simple.

No. 1, figure out what you’re good at. The earlier you can figure out what you’re good at, the better off you’re going to be, and you can position yourself earlier in your career for success.

No. 2, what are you passionate about? What type of job is going to make you feel like, when that alarm clock rings, you are genuinely excited to wake up and jump out of bed and get to the office? I didn’t even know that was possible until I became an entrepreneur.

The last piece of advice is about networking. It’s so important, as soon as you can, to build relationships, to keep in touch with people, to do kind acts for other people without expecting something in return, because there are going to be moments in your career or your personal life where you might need to ask for help and favors. Just be a nice person.

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/busin ... .html?_r=1

[winston]

"The only job you start at the top is digging a hole."

— Anonymous

[behappyalways]

The most dangerous job on television?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/w ... ision.html

[winston]

Develop the skills that add value by Brian Tracy

Your goal is to organize your life in such a way that you enjoy a good income, a high standard of living, and that you are the master of your economic destiny rather than a victim of changing economic times. Does this sound consistent with your goals?

Contribution Is the Key

Your job is an opportunity to contribute a value to your company in excess of your cost. In its simplest terms, your job is as secure as your ability to render value in excess of what it costs to keep you on the payroll. If you want to earn more money at your current job, you have to increase your value, your contribution to the enterprise.

Add Value Every Day

If you want to get a new job, you have to find a way to contribute value to that enterprise. If you want any kind of job security, you must continually work at maintaining and increasing your value in the competitive marketplace.

And here's a key point. Your education, knowledge, skills and experience all are investments in your ability to contribute a value for which you can be paid. But they are like any other investments. They are highly speculative.

Once you have learned a subject or developed a skill, it is a sunk cost. It is time and money spent that you cannot get back. No employer in the marketplace has any obligation to pay you for it, unless he can use your skill to produce a product or service that people are ready to buy, today.

Prepare For Your Next Job

Whatever job you are doing, you should be preparing for your next job. And the key question is always: Where are the customers? Which businesses and industries are growing in this economy, and which ones are declining?

Get Hired!

Still unsure what you're looking for?

Where Is The Future?

I continually meet people who ask me how they can increase their income when their entire industry is shrinking. I tell them that there are jobs with futures and there are jobs without futures, and they need to get into a field that is expanding, not contracting.

Never Be Without A Job

There are three forms of unemployment in America: voluntary, involuntary, and frictional.

Voluntary employment exists when a person decides not to work for a certain period of time, or not to accept a particular type of job, hoping that something better will come along. Involuntary unemployment exists when a person is willing and able to work but cannot find a job anywhere. Frictional unemployment is the natural level; this includes the approximately 4 or 5 percent of the working population who are between jobs at any given time.

Three Keys to Lifelong Employment

However, there are always jobs for the creative minority. You never have to be unemployed if you will do one of three things: change the work that you are offering to do, change the place where you are offering to work, or change the amount that you are asking for your services. You should consider one or more of these three strategies whenever you are dissatisfied with your current work situation.

Action Exercises

Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, look around you at your current job and find ways to create added value every day. There's always something more you can do.

Second, identify the kind of work you want to be doing in the future and then make a plan to develop the knowledge and skills you will require to do it well.

Source: Brian Tracy International

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Your Moral Obligation in Life By Bedros Keuilian

We all have moral obligations in life. These obligations should never be to just do the minimum.

For those of us who have kids — we don't just have a moral obligation to provide food for their bellies, a roof over their heads, and basic education, we have a moral obligation to give our kids 10X the opportunities and life that we had.

You owe them every possible advantage to help them be better at life so that they can help more people as they enter their professional lives. This will give them more security and happiness as adults.

And in business, you have a moral obligation to do more than just show up at work and do the job.

Don't operate like you own a job. Operate like you own a business. They're two totally different mindsets.

As Grant Cardone says in his book, 10X: "You may have met your legal and moral obligation by showing up and doing the 'work,' but there's a much higher moral obligation that you should hold yourself accountable to... and that is to 10X the expectations that you have of yourself."

Source: ETR

[winston]

Four Signs You Have a Dead-End Job

A Georgetown management professor identifies four red flags for career stagnation.

by Sarah Grant

Source: Blooomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... =BBD120115