Top 5 Myths About Getting Your Next Job

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Myth #2: During the interview you have sufficient time to sell yourself to your prospective employer.

The person interviewing you will make a decisive qualification of you within the first 60 seconds of the time you meet. If you wait until the interview to sell yourself to your prospective employer, you're too late. A qualified decision will have been made and the time allocated to an interview is just not enough to differentiate yourself from the competition. You have to sell yourself before the interview begins.

Myth #3: Pursuing your next career opportunity starts with the job search process.

Most people pursue a career change as a reaction to some event in their lives. Maybe you've been laid off. Maybe your expenses have increased or have a child going to college. Reacting puts unnecessary boundaries and time-frames on how you address your job search and you end up doing only those things that can be completed within your pre-defined time frame, limiting your effectiveness and overall success.

Proactive development of realistic and achievable career goals and plans today is the key to getting your next job tomorrow and achieving the career and financial success you deserve. It's critical that you make the effort to develop a realistic and attainable career plan. Start by developing a written set of short-term career goals, and realize that no matter how simple your goals are, as long as they are in writing you will have done more that most of your competition. With your goals defined, you can then proceed to define a plan for reaching your goals.

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Reply #1 on : Sat June 26, 2010, 03:32:06

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really funny stuff :) I can take this to my research papers