How to Manage your first Job?

How to Manage your first Job? I recently sat with a young man who was finishing his studies and spent 387 resumes making only three interviews. Had 6 months and was quite dazzled with the process.

He complained that he had always thought that college was going to get a job for students  recently graduated and now realized that it was not. He was also upset with the fact that companies do not respond your requests. With so many "no", his confidence began to waver.

I asked him how he defined a set of professional work , and he told me that a job was an opportunity to do something constructive and where you would pay for that.

I invited him to consider another definition. A job is when a company, organization or community has a problem that has not solved with current resources, or opportunity that has failed to take advantage of existing resources. With this definition I asked. ¿Tell me about a company, community or organization that does not have these jobs?

This question breaks the paradigm of "no work". Break paradigms is key to getting a good first job . If you follow what everyone will achieve what they achieve all. The book "What Color is Your Parachute" is an extraordinary guide to find work.

This book states the following:

The 3 worst ways to get a job

• Mail resumes to any company. This method has a 7% efficiency.

• Responding free classified ads in newspapers. This method has between 7% and 24% chance of success.

• Approaching private agencies for home use . This method also has between 7% and 24% chance of success

I always thought that people do not often do things because they do not and not because they want to. While I can get work accomplished in amounts of different forms, after 18 years of teaching these subjects and 20 years in business, I have deciphered a simple methodology, practical and effective, to which I have named Build your own thread :

The first step is to know himself, to serve, that does not work, what their dreams and what the problems around you that really bother you - in your home, neighborhood, city, country, continent or world. This flow will generate mental clarity. By having clear dreams, and act, achieve motivation. Motivation is a cause + action. To be clear about the strengths and weaknesses, know what market. By having the problems that bother you clear, he can create chances for a job where you help solve one of those problems.

A second step is to understand the environment.

Three questions are used for this purpose.

• What industries or fields value a person with your strengths?

Choose between one and three.

• What are the fifteen to fifty companies and organizations within those one to three areas that really interest you?

There are lots of directories and magazines that listed companies in the libraries. Within each of these organizations,

• What are the key contacts, problems and opportunities are not taking advantage?

On the Internet you get a lot of information on most companies and organizations. Another source is that one can gestate contacts within companies.

And knowing and knowing the environment, a third step is to build relationships with organizations or companies that interest you. The best strategy is a subtle strategy. Just as when one is without a partner and shows desperation, repulsion, also when one is looking for student work recently received from the university and shows too much need, scares people. It is important to think about where and how.

There are several places to meet people:

At trade shows, airports, public transportation, at events, on the street.

Are multiple forms. Serendipity techniques and innovation in the gaps I Believe In Colombia, serve this purpose.

The fourth challenge is to get the interview.

If one has positioned itself as an asset not before they know you are looking for work, the likelihood of achieving the interview is greater. If you meet unmet needs and unresolved problems of the organization, using it is to touch a chord with the organization and thus, get the interview. The strategic emphasis - showing desire but hunger - is key.

The final challenge is to sell well in the interview.

These 12 guidelines are useful:

• Relax and enjoy

To increase the chances of getting hired quickly, if you who requested the interview, only ask for 17 minutes and just take those 17 minutes, no matter what happens, this pleasantly impress the interviewer.

• Do some research the company BEFORE the interview. This will put forward (in the mind of the interviewer) from other candidates. Therefore, when setting the date and time of the interview ask if they could mail you something in writing about the company. Also look for themselves.

• Most business decisions are taken in the first 60 seconds of the interview. Most interviews begin with an open question "Tell me about yourself ..."

• Use packaging to highlight the substance. There is no second chance to make a good first impression.

• Do not hog the interview. Talk and listen 50% and 50%. Spend half the time listening to what the interviewer wants to tell you about the needs of the post and the other half you talk This way there will seem to be ignoring the needs of the company.

• Studies have shown that when you have the word, not talk followed by more than 2 minutes, if you want to make a good impression. In fact, a good answer to a question from the interviewer should take only 20 seconds.

• During the interview stay focused on what you can do for your interviewer rather than the interviewer can do for you.The interviewer should look like a person who solves problems and not as a person that only keeps busy.

• What is a company looks at the person to hire is someone who is punctual, arriving to work on time or earlier, stay until after the departure time or even late, who can be trust, who wants more than a paycheck, that is self disciplined, very organized, very motivated and very good at handling their time, so be it and direct it to the people, speak effectively, that can handle the computers , that this commitment to teamwork, which is flexible and can adapt to new situations or changing situations, that can be trained and loves to learn, which is focused on results, you have creativity and is good at solving problems, it is full, which be loyal to the organization that is able to identify opportunities, markets and trends. They also want to hire people who pay his salary alone (to bring the company more money than you paid).

• Take time to consider that makes him different from nineteen people who can do the same work you can do. Usually a matter of style. What do you do .. more closely, faster or what? How to answer you .. this response may depend in an interview that you get that position and not any of the other nineteen people. Do not wait for your interviewer guess this. Be prepared to tell, so modest. This is what makes me different.

• Never speak ill of your work or former employer. The interviewers feel they are a fraternity. During the interview they want to find someone to politely express all members of the fraternity. They feel that if hired, you will end up speaking the same way.

• Every evening after an interview sit down and write a thank you note to every person you visited that day. this means not only managers but their secretaries, receptionists or anyone who helped in some way. Mention something individually for each one of them. Do not do a format, make it personal. Use the thank you note to emphasize something that was discussed or to add something that might be left out. This is crucial.

By following an orderly process, the chances of achieving a first job to match the candidate's expectations and possibilities multiply. It is important to build traction for not skating. This process works if you use it with care.