Expedite getting a new job

How wonderful would it be if a job search was not strenuous at all? You may feel that your qualities of head and heart manifest your suitability for a job. But a job search is all about selling yourself. Therefore, it is essential that you promote yourself amongst prospective employers. If you fail to do so, somebody else who does self-promotion in a better fashion will overtake you in the race.

A job search calls for a proactive approach and that again calls for extreme urgency and determination. The focus of attention of your prospective employers must remain on you. You need to be dynamic, maintain contact with the concerned employers and ensure that you emerge as a hot favourite. In this way, you will generate new career opportunities for yourself.

You could dispatch several resumes or spend time surfing the internet for jobs; for most people, these are arduous endeavours by themselves. But if we look at them with a certain degree of positivity, the pleasure that you will derive hunting for jobs will be unsurpassable. If job hunting was that easy a task, people would outsource it. The responsibility to plan, design and execute a result-oriented job search is invariably that of the job-seeker.   

Selling yourself can prove to be a monumental responsibility. But you can always cut down on its complexity and increase the prospects of easy identification of additional challenges. Here is how you can do so:

· Get ready for the search: You should appreciate that job search entails work toil. Today, there are agencies who hunt for suitable candidates for employment with companies. However, given the increasing trend amongst corporates to do recruitment without incurring unnecessary expenditure, you simply cannot bank upon head hunting agencies to spot and recommend you. What you should bank upon are your own ingenuities and enterprises that ought to ensure that your candidature and name is disseminated well in the environment. You should be your own marketing manager. A recruiting agency can just recommend your name and help you to be called for the selection process. It is likely that you may not be the best amongst the candidates, but nevertheless get hired. Under such circumstances, you will have to prove that you are in no way inferior to the person who was otherwise the best.

· Guard against overstretching yourself: If you overstrain, overstress and overtax yourself, you are more likely to go astray in your job search; and render yourself unsuccessful. If you have to be successful, you should concentrate your efforts on limited target organisations that as per your wisdom and perception require skills that you possess. Having done that, you have to identify methods to gain access into such establishments and cast your potential as a probable efficient talent. In devoting time and effort to gain knowledge about a target company and appreciating its specific requirements, including cultural values, you will be able to portray yourself as an incomparable find. The net result will be that the company will be impelled to recruit you.

· Be liberal and large-hearted: A significant characteristic of today’s job market is that your credibility needs to be established beyond doubt. It is you and you alone. You need to win faith and confidence of your prospective employers by volunteering to undertake a test assignment. This will help in the acceleration of the hiring process. During interview sessions, you need to portray yourself more as a professional advisor to the prospective employers and partner with them to conjointly reach some pre-meditated objectives. Neither you nor your prospective company is more powerful than the other or has excessive control; and hence both stand to gain from the success attained by the other party and also getting what each seeks from the association.

· Be prudent on larger issues: This caution is applicable to negotiations related to remunerations and perks as also various other suggestions that are deliberated earnestly by you. You must discard any feeling of superiority or smugness that you may have; and consider everything from the financial angle. It also needs to be appreciated that just in case if your earnings are not much, then any extra payment is a boon. As your association with a company grows, the probability of excelling and establishing your credentials and capability will always be high. But if you remain unemployed, then every single day is essentially amounting to some monetary loss.     

During your job search, you have to believe in yourself and have full faith in your talents and capabilities. Remember that if you do not have a modest but sensible self-confidence in your own fortes, you can neither be efficacious nor pleased.