Nov
22
Can Social Networking Help in the IT Job Search?
November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Do you know how to navigate the sea of social networking sites that are available online? More importantly, do you know how to use social networking tools to land the IT job you’re looking for?
Social networking isn’t just for wasting time online, though it can be used for that! In today’s world, social networking is a powerful tool for job networking. If you haven’t yet utilized this tool, you may want to consider trying it. Social networking helps you connect with colleagues and job leads you wouldn’t otherwise have access to, and it also gives you an online presence so potential employers can find you.
When you’re searching and applying for IT jobs, you want a potential employer to be able to find you online. You also want to be able to control the type of online information they can find about you.
How can you do this? First, create the kind of information you would like an employer to see. Consider joining social networking sites that are designed for professional networking. Sites like LinkedIn.com and MyWorkster.com allow you to create a profile, link with colleagues, and share a resume online. Consider signing up with one or more of these types of sites.
You should also make sure that your online presence in the social networking world contains nothing you wouldn’t want potential employers to see. Many people create blogs or post pictures on MySpace or FaceBook and don’t realize that this information is available for anyone to view.
If you have a FaceBbook or MySpace account, you can change your privacy settings to prevent colleagues or potential employers from viewing your profile. You can also edit your profile to contain only things that you wish employers to see, such as a resume and contact information.
The easiest way to find out what potential employers can see is to use a search engine and search for your name. What are the results? Do you like what people can see about you? If not, make changes by putting up profiles of information you’d like others to see, and removing any profiles or pictures that you’d prefer to remain private.
Networking is an important way to find IT jobs, and social networking is a great way to connect online. You have the ability to not only control what potential employers see, but to also connect and network through the social networking tools.
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Nov
19
How to Make a Targeted CV
November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
In the past, no one retyped their CV every time they applied for a job. Now, with the introduction of Word Processing you can, if you wish, customize your CV to all job applications. However, the effort involved should be justified. If it makes a difference to you getting a really good job, then it is probably worthwhile. Otherwise, specific re-targeting may be best left for just the covering letter. The CV can be more generally targeted to the job area, sector or industry, with maybe a change in the opening CV‘s Profile or Career Object Statement stating your aspirations. As everyone’s job search situations are different, there is no single answer to the question on “How to Make a CV” suit all, but there are some simple criteria that can be used to help you make the decision. As a general rule it wise to play the numbers game and submit your CV to as many viable jobs as possible within the advertised and unadvertised job markets.
As an exercise, when you feel you need to submit a CV, ask yourself the following questions: What skills am I selling? To whom am I selling? Why do they need my skills? Why should they choose me rather than other candidates? If you feel a general CV targeted only to the job area or industry will work, then fine – send your CV off with the covering letter, but be honest with yourself don’t just take the easy option because you cannot be bothered with more specific CV targeting. (You can download a CV template at my website). Personally, I support the general CV as you can specifically write the covering letter for every job application. The general CV can be “over targeted” i.e. it can be best if you communicate and fit the job criteria with the impression that you have just pulled the CV out of the bottom draw and written the letter. With this in mind, from my experience it is then best to write the letter in a different font type and different paper.
How to Make a CV – (The Personal Profile or Career Objective Statement)
‘If I get one more results-orientated, dynamic, sales executive today, I shall throw up!’ To add individual impact to your CV is to include a paragraph the intention of which is to summarize, in no more than a few lines, your experience and achievements, maybe you skills but not your personal attributes, (unless you a school leaver of graduate with little or no experience). The personal profile can be closed off with a short career statement matching your aspirations maybe with a titled job vacancy - the same personal profile may not be is appropriate for every vacancy. This is written at the beginning of your CV immediately after your name, address and contact details.
Personal Profile and Career Objective Statement Errors
* Copying other profile examples and over used content taken from job advertisements.
* Too much focus on personal attributes rather than skills, experience and achievements.
* Writing a profile that sounds just like any number candidate.
Make your CV as a solution to somebody’s problem and rewrite your closing sentence in your profile to suit a specific job target or job area. This will also focus your mind (experience, skills and achievements) that need to be communicated to your potential employer and the reasons why you are the right person for the job. Write your achievements with bullet points quantifying them if you can. More specific achievements can also be written in the covering letter for greater impact.
Mike Kelley has written many articles on various topics including CV Writing and this time writing article on How to Make a Targeted CV. For more details about Targeted CV please visit: http://www.cv-service.org
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Nov
18
Grisly Freelance Death Traps
November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For most of you out there who are either fairly new to freelancing jobs or who are seriously considering jumping in, a big question may still remain of whether you will be able to make it or not. The answer is that EVERYONE can succeed in freelancing, however, many do not.
Unfortunately for those who do not succeed, they do not realize that many factors that cause them to fail are within their own control. The key is to recognize what these factors are and take the right steps to control them. In this article, I’m going to focus on the factors that will cause the bloody death of your freelance career (and has caused for many other). The next week’s article will focus on the Freelance Life Lines for your career.
The following are the five death traps you want to avoid when starting out in freelance. If you are already in your freelance career, then pay attention. This just may save you.
Death Trap #1: Not having a backup plan or backup source of income
Speaking from experience, most freelancers will not have an idea of what freelancing is really like until they complete their first year… and that is a big IF they complete their first year. Therefore, you would be taking a huge risk if you decide to suddenly decide to tell your boss to go to #!@% off and think you can continue to earn your income by freelancing.
As a newcomer to the freelance world, you will need a period of adjustment to get used to the demands of it. I won’t go into depth of these demands here, but to name a few, there are high/low workloads, customer/client service (yes, you have to keep them happy) and invoicing/collections.
What often happens for a new freelancer, too, is that initially they will notice their income decreases from what they made in a paid position. This is overwhelming enough to cause many to panic and quit freelancing and resume working in their careers for a fixed salary.
To overcome the “freelance panic” and freelancing demands, the best route to go is to not quit your job and to freelance part-time in addition to it. Sure, this may bring about a very heavy workload, however, it is the best way to learn freelancing in your field without losing income.
Once you are established as a freelancer, you may want to decrease the hours in the salaried position and increase the freelance workload if at all possible. This method can all but guarantee that you will have a smooth transition into a freelance career.
Now, there are those who may jump into freelancing right away without having been in a salaried position in their career field. The same demands of freelancing still apply, in addition to the demands of their chosen field. That is why in this case, a fallback job or other source of income, even if not related to their career field, is ideal.
A backup source of income can be vital to giving you peace of mind and keeping you from quitting when times get difficult in freelancing. Believe me, too, they can get difficult.
Death Trap #2: Not being service minded
It is safe to say that most of us have had some kind of job position where we’ve had to deal with customers in a friendly and helpful manner. For those of you who haven’t, then for sure you have had to deal with some kind of customer service whether it was returning a purchased item, complaining of service, or receiving help.
In either case, do you remember being yelled at by the “nasty” customer or getting poor service, yourself? Can you remember what their voice sounded like when they got on your bad side?
Well the same will apply to your freelance job. Argue with your clients and treat them poorly and you can kiss your freelance career goodbye. The opposite is true, too. Treat them like you really appreciate their business and they will keep coming back AND bring their friends with them.
All of this boils down to one simple concept: service-mindedness.
If you honestly appreciate your clients, you will do the little things such as, getting work done on time, delivering high quality and even responding promptly to emails. Such things make a client feel appreciated and keeps work coming which is especially important to a new freelancer.
One thing that must be noted, though, is where the line should be drawn where it may appear that a client is taking advantage of your kind treatment. It is actually pretty simple. In this case, you have to be firm, but polite with them. Not surprisingly, most clients will try to see where their dollar will take them. If you keep giving in to complaints/requests for changes, they will keep coming back with more.
A rule of thumb is to always fix mistakes made on your part, but charge if a change/fix requested was not due to your error. Inform the client in a polite but stern manner and they will they won’t take advantage of you.
Death Trap #3: Not making a working schedule
Part of the reason that the majority of us switch to freelancing is to get out of the 9 – 5 grind Monday through Friday. We want the ability to sleep in on a Monday morning and the freedom to take a three hour lunch break if we want to. What is generally not taken into account, however, is that despite our perceived freedoms in freelancing, we still have to work those eight or more hours a day during the week. Sometimes more.
If you freelance at home, too, you also open yourself to distractions that can inhibit your workday. After all, there is a bed, refrigerator, TV and a sofa all within arm’s reach from your working desk. What has to be done is to get into the habit of eliminating these distractions and getting yourself used to good working habits.
One of the most important things you can do to gain a good working habit is to create a working schedule. This may sound like the dreaded work schedule at your old job, but here you have the freedom to schedule anything.
The schedule should be started by first determining the hours you want (or need) to work in an entire week. Divide these hours up by the number of days you will work in the week then schedule in the daily hours in a weekly planner. Remember, you have the freedom to work at 3 AM as you do 3 PM. The important thing is to stick to those scheduled hours like you would at a job.
As you are working, be sure to keep track of the time and make sure you complete scheduled times. Try not to “cut-off” from working five minutes early nor starting five minutes later than your starting time. The goal is to develop a productive working habit and not be a clock-watcher like most were at their old job.
Once in a while, you will have an emergency or you may have had a little too much fun the night before to keep you from sticking to your schedule. Do your best to reschedule those working hours for another day in the week or divide them among the rest of the week.
Keep the habit of working your desired weekly hours and you won’t have to worry about the distractions that often dooms freelancers to low productivity… and low income.
Death Trap #4: Charging too little for your work
Freelance newbies are often so eager to find work they will accept any price for a job. Then they quickly find they do not earn the income they thought they would and quit.
This is by far one of the biggest mistakes made as a freelancer since this leaves you open to being taken advantage of by employers. Even if you are new in your field, there is a market price for the work you do and you are entitled to it.
The key is to know what prices are being offered for the type of work you do. More specifically, you need to determine a price range paid for a project where you know exactly the requirements to complete it. Then you bid a price on a project within that range.
Note that you may have to take a longer time than a more experienced freelancer to complete a project, but as long as you note the time for completion to the employer when you bid, this will not make a difference.
Do not sell yourself short if you are looking for work and/or if you are new to your career field. Remember that there are plenty of people looking for freelancers to provide a service at a price ideal for you. Your focus should be on looking for one of these instead of taking anything that just happens to come your way. Be patient because they will come.
Death Trap #5: Not tracking your production
As a freelancer, you are officially a business. As a business you need to track your working income to see where you can be more efficient and grow your business to earn even more.
Let me give you an example. Personally, I found that as long as I was able to pay the rent every month, eat and go out on the weekends, then I was doing more than enough to make ends meet. Why should I have to worry about what I make if it appeared to be enough?
Well, the answer is that as a business, you want to run efficiently. You could actually come to find that you are leaving money on the table like I did.
What did I do?
I first kept track of my hours (see Death Trap #3 above), but then kept track of what I did in those hours. For instance, I would spend a typical day responding to business emails and client questions and then doing the work of my field. What I came to find was that I would spend a disproportionate amount of time emailing (which doesn’t pay!) rather than doing productive work earning myself an income.
Just from this finding, I was able to limit non-income business activities and increase my income. This is also without increasing the number of hours I work.
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Fortunately for you, if you are new to freelancing or are even considering it, you don’t have to go through the same growing pains as I did in order to succeed. I don’t want to tell you that everything is roses, because it is not. You will come across obstacles not mentioned here that you will have to get through, but in truth, will be necessary for you to grow in freelancing.
Heed my five Death Traps of Freelancing though. These will help you pass through the worst of what could come.
By Johnny Spence
Author of The Rookie Freelance Job Guide
Journal: The Freelance Rant
Johnny Spence has been a freelancer since 2003 and has not looked back since quitting the J-O-B for good back then. He encourages everyone else to jump on the boat and do the same and will not stop until all middle-management bosses are eliminated from the universe.
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Nov
17
Finding the Perfect Job
November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Are you happy with your job? Because if you are, you are one of the very lucky few who have been able to find the job they love to do. If not, then there are probably countless reasons why you still haven’t found the perfect job for you.
Not all people are happy with their work, there are many who jump from one job to another in just a short span of time, some only stay at the company they work for–doing the job they dislike intensely–because of financial reasons, others feel that their only choice is to keep their jobs because they are not qualified or just too old for other work.
If you are about to begin your first job or if you are unhappy with your work and thinking of making a change, here are some tips to help you find the perfect job.
First, know what you excel at and what you want to do. You will only feel satisfied with your job if you are good at it and if you like what you are doing. Most often, people who are unhappy with their jobs have not really spend some time to learn about what they excel at and love to do. Probably, many of them quickly picked a job simply to earn money and ensure their family’s survival.
Second, think of what your ideal job would be. This is actually related to the first tip. Of course, if you know what you are good at and what you want to do, you will surely have an idea of what kind of job would best suit you. Hence, you can easily narrow your job search to companies offering the kind of work you like.
Third, since there is a lot of competition out there, you will have to do your best to make yourself the perfect candidate for a job. You can have greater chances of landing the perfect job if you have work experience as well as relevant qualifications. So, prepare yourself by getting the necessary skills or academic training for your dream job.
Life is too short to spend time doing something you do not like; therefore, you must strive to find the perfect job for you.
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Nov
16
Win Friends and Influence People with These Background Check Secrets
November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Background checking might seem a lot of trouble but it always pays off at the end. Theres no telling when you might unearth particulars about a soon-to-be member of staff that proves them inappropriate for the job in question. In such instances, you should go on to the next candidate.
Military records are one aspect of background check. It is out mainly to know someones military discharge. It is however not common as it was carried out over 50 years ago.
Management is serious business. Not only do you have to oversee the goings on in your company, you also have to organize money transactions, oversee this and oversee that. Perhaps the toughest part is the responsibility of overseeing employments. Organizing the tests and interviews are the easy parts. After this, you would have to verify the claims of your applicants by doing a background check on them so that you know youre putting your trust in the right place.
There are indeed those who desire to go straight after a rocky past. The problem they have is that their pasts do no let go very easily. A background check carried out by a company in which they are trying to secure jobs might reveal secrets that they believed to be long dead. Ultimately, they might never get the post, and worse, they could resort to alternate means for getting by.
The Internet is one of the sources of background check. It not only carries the information of thousands of people. It is fast and relatively cheap to operate. This source of background check is better than the traditional means, which is very rigorous.
One of the pre-requisites to employment in recent times is background check. Employers now make sure that their companies are not jeopardized by unscrupulous elements. They carry out thorough investigation into the personal records of applicants to save their companies names.
A lot of people are becoming security conscious by investigating into the credit worthiness and past employment records of prospective employees. This is because a lot of employees turn out to be criminals. Consulting the employees former places of work can do this investigation.
It is not uncommon to find workers or job applicants with several altered details in their curricula vitae. Sometimes they have things to hide about their past litigation problems, problems with the law and they would prefer if those issues remained in the past. It is therefore imperative that a background check be carried out before anyone is employed because these things may have a bearing on how efficient the employees will be at their newfound jobs.
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Nov
16
The Bond Background Check Techniques
November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
One of the dumbest things a manager could do is fail to arrange for some kind of background check on contenders applying for high profile jobs. The higher the amount of responsibility required, the more detailed this check would need to be. Otherwise, the consequences could be severe.
Aircraft are big and graceful, but they are also very delicate machines. Pilots and technicians who handle them have to be qualified to the book and tough to the bone. They have to be people who do not panic when there is turbulence up there in the sky. There is no résumé that can adequately depict these traits. Before the gentleman is employed, they must be a background check, period.
Even though it seems simple enough, a background check can be very involving. Although there is a lot of information you can get from the Internet, they still wouldnt be enough. In some cases, you might have to make a few phone calls or do some traveling to get what youre looking for.
There are indeed those who desire to go straight after a rocky past. The problem they have is that their pasts do no let go very easily. A background check carried out by a company in which they are trying to secure jobs might reveal secrets that they believed to be long dead. Ultimately, they might never get the post, and worse, they could resort to alternate means for getting by.
Security check is a form of background check that is commonly used by employer. They use this form of check to investigate into the personal details of applicants. It is as popular as a medical check.
One of the pre-requisites to employment in recent times is background check. Employers now make sure that their companies are not jeopardized by unscrupulous elements. They carry out thorough investigation into the personal records of applicants to save their companies names.
A lot of people are becoming security conscious by investigating into the credit worthiness and past employment records of prospective employees. This is because a lot of employees turn out to be criminals. Consulting the employees former places of work can do this investigation.
Frauds related to employment issues cost up to 1.4 billion Euros in 2005 in the United Kingdom alone. It strongly suggested that people we in dire need of jobs and cash, and were prepared to go to any lengths. Naturally, pre-employment exercises have been stepped up since. Now after thorough examinations have been conducted with very rigid rules, the interviews that follow for those who qualify and even more methodical. All this is now capped up with careful investigation of the applicants background.
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Nov
16
They Laughed at My Background Check Tactics, But When I Spilled the Dirt About Them…
November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Many people look good enough on the surface, but underneath they could be snakes. On their curricula vitae, youd never see it, and then youd never know what to expect. But if you did a simple background check, you might unearth vital issues details about the person that could guide your decision making.
Employers are becoming interested in carrying out background check on applicants. They are expected to consider the position of each applicant in order to know the type of search to carry out. It is equally pertinent to use the same search for all the applicants enlisted for a particular position.
Because young children will pick up and learn from just about everything around them, you certainly cant have the wrong kind of people within the same vicinity. People with questionable mental and criminal histories should not be employed as teachers or staff in schools because they could adversely influence the kids. Even if they keep straight faces and their demeanors look like they are all that, a good background check should reveal all you need to know about them.
There is simply no way to measure how many deaths have occurred due to accidents, train wrecks, boat capsizes, and plane crashes. Many of these occurred at the hands of under qualified drivers or pilots who never should have gotten employed in the first place. But due to obviously falsified credentials and/or lapse diligence on the parts of the employers a simple but good background check would have exposed them they got the jobs anyway.
Background check is no longer as complex as it used to be years back. With the advent of the Internet, anybody can carry out investigation to get detailed information about people and events. The procedure is very simple; log on, pay your fee and run a report on what you want.
For background check to be conducted on a nanny, permission must be taken. This is to keep you save from any legal issue. There must be a waiver from the person to conduct the check. You can explain to he person that the check is for the sake of safety.
Background check is the form of search that can be carried out by anybody. It can be carried out by security agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and State Security Service (SSS). It can also be carried out by background check service providers.
While compiling your résumé, you want to be certain that all important and necessary details are included as much as possible. This will spare you a lot of awkwardness arising from fresh details being exposed from your past when a background check is carried out on you by the company you have applied to.
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Nov
15
You are not your resume
November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This discussion we have been having around the padding of the resume, essentially the direct misrepresentation of skills so that someone will interview or offer you the position has gotten me moved toward the more front end of the process. I find in the technical profession, that people bend the truth, since without it most managers cannot see past the direct links of keywords in their jobs and the resume application. So they “pad” to make themselves more attractive and get to the next step. So how do we avoid this?
First and foremost, remember one simple truth - a piece of paper can never define who you are. Who you are resonates beyond paper and ink. The key is the expression of that character and most people limit themselves to a simple resume to get that point across. Stop limiting yourself. Playing conventionally will not improve your position of being successful, it only heaps you into the pile of nameless paper, making you as unrecognizable as the next. Do we really think that better words on that resume are going to make the difference. The first thing we need to do is get the person to pick up the resume. A few ideas for how to make that happen:
Send the resume in a special format. I have found for the most important things (and I think job searching for a career is one of them), sending things via FEDEX is a key way to ensure that the person will open it. Time, money and effort are all shown with this and reflect a level of distinction few others are showing. (This has been reflective in our firms billing system for example. We use to email invoices to hiring managers. Payments were delayed, etc. We switched to sending FEDEX, bills are paid on time and normally ahead of terms. We have not no missed or skipped invoices either. People know when they receive the package, they need to open it and read it).
Make sure when they have it in hand, that the read it and not just put it down. Customization. Yes, this takes time but is the only way for the manager not to think that he is one of a million recipients of the same message. Know the role, know the hiring manager’s name, know intimate details about the company and have an opening statement that shows you are an insider who is up to speed on what is going on there.
Make an impact quickly. People waste about a quarter of the first page with their name/address/summary that offers little to the reader. Make the first thing they see a good reason for them to continue reading. You have hooked them with steps 1 & 2, do not lose them with a resume that is boring. Impact statements, signs of concrete substance and positive environmental impact at your old positions. Savings - hard numbers. Facts. Make the most out of the little space you have on that little white piece of paper.
These are just some of the steps in making your job search process easier. However, I think it draws to the fact that when the process is done right, there is no need to lie. If you need to lie in addition to all of this, that position is simply not for you.
Jason Monastra is a 10 year veteran in the recruiting industry and current partner with United Global Technologies, www.ugtechnologies.com, a leading recruiting and consulting firm serving the IT and engineering vertical based out of Charlotte NC.
Jason Monastra maintains a major career advice and job search blog at www.lambentpath.com, making it easy to access key informational points to better help navigate your search for your next position.
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Nov
14
Use a Cover Letter Template to Stand Out in the Crowd
November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For all those job seekers who saw Legally Blonde II and the pink perfumed resume, there was a terrific chuckle. There was also a simple knowledge that maybe she had gone too far with her resume. News Flash, she also didn’t give a cover letter. However, the character in that movie did do one thing very right: She made sure that her presentation of herself was “head and shoulders” above the crowd. She was noticeable. That is often why people will use a cover letter template.
Let’s take a look at ways one can be certain that their resume and cover letter are noticeable other than pink perfumed paper and a personal presentation.
Foremost critical point: In almost all jobs you apply for you need to include a cover letter with your resume! In today’s work world cover letters are your introduction. Because they are so important, many people will use the cover letter template to help get the letter of introduction as good as possible. Cover letters have replaced personal contact when presenting the resume. They show some aspect of your personality, framework, and merit. They encourage a person to take a peek at the resume.
Follow the cover letter template as closely as you can. Do make sure you have these points covered as well:
* Put that cover letter and resume on decent paper. At least a 25 lb. paper ideally with a watermark is what you want. Don’t go overboard with color and texture. A nice paper is sufficient.
Potential employers will be determining key things about you in that cover letter. If you choose to use a cover letter template, make sure it will help you illustrate some of the things the employer looks for:
* Ability to follow instructions (that applies to those companies that actually requested that a cover letter be included with the resume). They want to know, do you read the directions and follow them?
* Attention to detail is another item the potential employer is looking for when he reads your cover letter. Did you send in a letter that is incomplete, has typos or grammatical errors? Is it properly formatted on the page? Is it concise and to the point, or did you ramble? Look back to your cover letter template as well, make sure it is of excellent quality.
* Personalization is another factor that must be considered. Did you write a cover letter designed for one and all, then basically blitz the work market? Let’s hope not, because if you did, you really blew it. Take a few minutes with each cover letter you present to get some info about the company, the person’s name to address it to. Personalize it the best that you can. This shows that you are not desperate for work and that you are a professional. It also reinforces your attention to detail.
* It’s a gauge of your communication skills - how well do you present yourself in writing, are you able to communicate concisely and professionally, can you highlight key points of yourself and your resume without boring the reader. Are you able to bring it all together through communication with a professional presentation? If you feel you are not able to do this, it is most advisable that you use a cover letter template.
There are only a handful of industries where cover letters are not required. Some of those include the construction trades, some IT positions, many part-time or part-time retail jobs. Some of the creative fields such as film or graphic design may also not require or want a cover letter. However the majority of today’s employers are looking for the cover letter to be included with the resume. If you are concerned about your ability to create it, then download a cover letter template to help you get the job done.
Margaret Marquisi is a retired career specialist and fulltime grandmother. If you are needing a cover letter template, download a cover letter example to help you in your writing.
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Nov
11
Using Personality Type to Find Your Ideal Career
November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment
Have you ever wondered why you like some jobs and hated others? It could be that you have been in jobs that just don’t suit your personality type, therefore you struggle to find your ideal career.
In personality type, an extrovert usually is more sociable and prefers to work with others, so they could struggle if they had to work alone in an accounts department all day long, with just some log books to keep them company.
It’s also true that most introverts, who are more reserved and thoughtful by nature, could struggle to be in a sales team, where they have to deliver presentations or be constantly in the spotlight.
But… this doesn’t mean that we are all the same. When Carl Jung introduced his theory of personality type theory he noticed that he could predict many of his clients behavior once he understood their personality type.
Does this mean we are all put in a ‘personality box’? No, this is not what he intended, as some extroverts can work very quietly on their own and produce their best work. But, he noted, they would probably struggle if they had to work constantly on their own, as they are energized in the company of others.
Many introverts, particularly famous classical musicians and artists, can perform in front of millions of people worldwide and really enjoy the experience. But, again Jung noted, they would struggle if they had to perform constantly every day, in front of people without having time alone, as they need to recharge their batteries and have time for reflection.
So you see, to find your ideal career you need to understand much more about yourself and how you prefer to operate in the workplace.
And now I invite you to discover more about your personality type and how this can help you find your ideal career by visiting http://www.RecipeForPersonalityTypes.com
Irene Houston has helped hundreds of people learn more about their personality type as a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) trainer.
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