Getting it straight with the gods before battle
It has been oddly familiar and strange being on the other side and actually interviewing people for a couple of positions opened in my organization. Even if I know that they will not make it, I try to be compassionate and encourage them to do what it takes in order to thrive in this new economic era.
Given that Michigan is getting kick hardest in this recession I want to hire someone local; however not only are my top candidates from the TX and CA, but they also happen to be people who got their masters in their country of origin, came over here and got a second masters, with 5 years industry experience in between. They not only have microbiology lab experience, but also mechanical and engineering abilities within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. So the question is do I hire the best or do I hire a fellow citizen who needs this job more than ever before.
How can someone compete in such fierce competitive job market:
1. Prepare as if it were for battle and get straight with whatever god, spiritual tradition or motivational forces you can find. Understand that you may have no idea how you are going to get to your destination, but that you will everyday take steps to get closer to it.
2. Get ruthless about gaining new skill sets. The laziest and easiest way is to go to a formal school and if you have the money and no pressure to start earning do it; but there are other means of getting what you
need. It is NOT how many degrees you have or even if you have a degree, but how many skill sets can you perform.
3. Measure your daily, weekly, quarterly and yearly progress into some sort of journal. For each obstacle, failure and setback come up with next steps for your next try out. Understand from get go that this is a battle for the long haul so for each set back, each failure and each rejection, reset your determination button to go even higher than where you originally had wanted to arrive at.
4. Stay focus on the important things, which includes your health, your mental attitude, the people closest to you and your job hunting quest.
5. Never give up, never surrender, stay resolute
Personally it blows my mind that when you take the collection of my skill set: 10% more could take me into the half a million and up salary range (Finance / Capital Venture / Merger & Acquisition); but that if I stay still or had 10% less despite 20+ years in the workforce doing respectable work that today I
would be hopelessly out of touch with the job market.
No matter where you are, even if you are working get clear and take it all the way to top one step after another, then another, then another . . .
Wishing all of us clarity of purpose and the resoluteness for making it so.
Given that Michigan is getting kick hardest in this recession I want to hire someone local; however not only are my top candidates from the TX and CA, but they also happen to be people who got their masters in their country of origin, came over here and got a second masters, with 5 years industry experience in between. They not only have microbiology lab experience, but also mechanical and engineering abilities within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. So the question is do I hire the best or do I hire a fellow citizen who needs this job more than ever before.
How can someone compete in such fierce competitive job market:
1. Prepare as if it were for battle and get straight with whatever god, spiritual tradition or motivational forces you can find. Understand that you may have no idea how you are going to get to your destination, but that you will everyday take steps to get closer to it.
2. Get ruthless about gaining new skill sets. The laziest and easiest way is to go to a formal school and if you have the money and no pressure to start earning do it; but there are other means of getting what you
need. It is NOT how many degrees you have or even if you have a degree, but how many skill sets can you perform.
3. Measure your daily, weekly, quarterly and yearly progress into some sort of journal. For each obstacle, failure and setback come up with next steps for your next try out. Understand from get go that this is a battle for the long haul so for each set back, each failure and each rejection, reset your determination button to go even higher than where you originally had wanted to arrive at.
4. Stay focus on the important things, which includes your health, your mental attitude, the people closest to you and your job hunting quest.
5. Never give up, never surrender, stay resolute
Personally it blows my mind that when you take the collection of my skill set: 10% more could take me into the half a million and up salary range (Finance / Capital Venture / Merger & Acquisition); but that if I stay still or had 10% less despite 20+ years in the workforce doing respectable work that today I
would be hopelessly out of touch with the job market.
No matter where you are, even if you are working get clear and take it all the way to top one step after another, then another, then another . . .
Wishing all of us clarity of purpose and the resoluteness for making it so.