Career 03 (Apr 12 - Jul 19)

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When a job offer comes without a job

Recruiters are looking at innate abilities of college hires rather than just skills to do a job

By Lindsay Gellman

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-offer ... 00386.html

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How to Discover Your Talents By Brian Tracy

Here are four questions that you need to ask yourself on a regular basis:
1. What do I most enjoy doing?
2. How would I describe my ideal job?
3. If I could have any job at all, anywhere, what would it be?
4. If I won a million dollars in the lottery and I had to pick something to work at indefinitely, what would I choose to do?

To uncover your strengths and determine your unique talents and abilities, ask yourself:
1. What have I been good at in the past?6.
2. What things do I do easily that seem to be difficult for other people?
3. In what areas of work do I seem to get the best results… and derive the most pleasure?
The answers to all of these questions will give you a good idea as to how you might increase your return on the energy you invest.

Then look at your current job, and ask yourself:
1. Where do I want to be in three to five years?
2. What kind of work do I want to be doing?
3. What kind of people do I want to be working with?
4. What level of responsibility do I desire?
5. What kind of money do I want to be earning?
6. What part of the country do I want to be living in?

Look at your work and at your life in general, and ask yourself:
1. What kind of people do I admire and most want to be like?
2. Who do I know, or know about, who is doing the kind of work that I want to do and is living the kind of life that I want to live?
3. What changes would I have to make in my life to be like that person?

Source: ETR

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What happened when she found the right company

Only the truly competent individual can be free of politics in an organization. When you're really good at what you do, you can rise above politics.


Do What You Have To Do

Select your work carefully and if you don't love what you're doing enough to want to be the best at it, get out! Flee from the boring or unsatisfying job as you would from a burning building. Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life. Remember, this life is not a rehearsal for something else.


Look for Pay for Performance

One key to getting onto the fast-track is for you to work for the right company and the right boss. The right company is one that respects its people and practices pay for performance. The right company is dynamic, growing, open to new ideas, and full of opportunities for people with ambition and initiative.


How to Make Progress

A woman spoke to me at a seminar recently and reminded me that she had asked me a question at a seminar about two years ago. She had told me that she was very ambitious and hard-working but that she wasn't making any progress in the large company where she worked. She felt it was because most of the senior executives were men in their fifties and sixties and that women had a hard time getting into positions of responsibility. What could she do?


Change Jobs When Necessary

I told her quite frankly that there was nothing she could do. The senior executives and the company were not going to change. If she was really as capable as she said, I told her to find a job with a young, growing company that wouldn't care whether she was a woman as long as she could do the job.


A Success Story

She told me that she had followed my advice, quit her job, much to the disapproval of her co-workers, and found a job with a small growing company - and it was exactly as I had said. She had been promoted twice in the last 14 months and was already earning 40% more than her best year with her previous company.


Action Exercises

Here are two things you can do to assure that you are in the right position.

First, make sure that you really enjoy your work and that you do it well. You will never be successful at a job that you don't like.

Second, be sure that there are lots of opportunities for you to grow, develop and advance in your company. Your future is too valuable to waste where there is no future.


Source: Brian Tracy International

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10 Ways Work Will Change in 2016

By Libby Sander

Source: Epoch Times

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1950550 ... campaign=7

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21 Reason You Should Quit Your Job and Travel the World

By Karol Gajda,

Source: How To Live Anywhere

http://www.mindpowernews.com/TravelWorld.html

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Love your work = success

by Rick Kahler

Source: AdviceIQ

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/per ... /79410614/

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The Ultimate Secret to Getting Rich Doing What You Love

By Allen Says

Source: Mind Power News

http://www.mindpowernews.com/MillionSecret.html

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The one question you should always ask at the end of a job interview

By Jacquelyn Smith

Source: Business Insider

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-alway ... 00132.html

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Is job hopping a bad idea?

By Mandi Woodruff

Source: Yahoo Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/money-min ... 24725.html

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Have a gap on your resume? Here’s what NOT to say in your interview.

By Jeanie Ahn

Source: Yahoo Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/have-a-ga ... 19583.html