Sunday, September 16, 2007

Focus Is The Key

One key to finding the job you want is to conduct an organized job search campaign. A campaign has three ingredients -- a well-defined objective, a strategy for achieving your objective and organizational support tools for implementing the strategy.

Unsuccessfull job hunters are often defeated by their lack of focus. How can we get a job if we do not know what kind of job we want, what industry we want to specialize in and what sort of organization our skills can best be used? This lack of focus can have several causes, including mixed feelings about working, unhappiness with your career path, personal distractions and simply not knowing how to get organized.

There are also job seekers who need to do more pre-campaign work. Some people launch a job search without having a good grasp of the skills and abilities they have to offer. They may need to conduct a more thorough self-assesment. Others are not sure where to find the jobs that match up with what they have to offer, these job hunters probably need to do more in-depth research.

A well-organized job search campaign has the objective of obtaining a specific kind of position, in a given industry and with a particular sort of organization. Some job hunters resist getting focused becuase they worry that they will limit their options and narrow their choices. This is a legitimate concern. After all, we do not want to close out any possibilities that might come our way. Yet, the experience of hundreads of thousands of job hunters over the years suggests that focusing brings the best advantages and is more effective.

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