"What you find in life is that the undoable seldom has to be done."
"As you seek new opportunity, keep in mind that the sun does not usually reappear on the horizon where last seen."
"There is always opportunity. Equal fortunes await the doer, the undoer and the redoer."
"A task may be difficult, but you have the advantage over it, for you can redouble your effort, but the task cannot redouble its difficulty."
"There are times when a willingness to change tactic has an advantage over persistency, as with persistent attempts to feed a baby through its ear."
As you check the want ads and see a hundred jobs you're unqualified for, remember that you are looking at a wish list. What you are actually seeing are a hundred needs, each to be eventually met by a more or less "unqualified" person that might as well be you.
As a job applicant, there are two things you must ask of the interviewer. You must ask for a precise description of the result wanted from the job, not the skill set required to do it but the tangible deliverable desired. Then you must ask for the interviewer's attention as you describe the path to that result that begins in the chair you're sitting in, showing how along that path you, yourself, will identify the skills required and acquire them as needed.
-- Robert Brault
4 comments:
Wonderful thoughts and so appropriate in today's work world - I will share these with my friends and family that have found themselves in a position of finding employment.
Marlene, thanks. It's a tough time to be job hunting. Nobody's hiring time and effort; they are hiring only productivity and hoping to identify potential productivity by skill set. The job applicant lacking the specific skills must cut right to the chase by offering productivity. This is especially true of older applicants. You do this by painting yourself as a person who can drive a job to completion, and you demonstrate this to the interviewer by driving the interview. In better times, this would be a little pushy, but in today's job climate, it's the only way.
smiles,
rb
I love the one about redoubling your efforts. Another printable quote, needing to be displayed for constant reminder!
As a former business manager, do you know how much I would have LOVED for the applicant to be a little pushy, to have shown me in just a few minutes that they had the ability to be productive, even if they didn't have the "skills" required? I can train skills. Character however, can not be taught.
Randi,
I'll tell you -- I was an independent consultant much of my career, interviewing frequently, and I would have killed to have sat across a job interview desk with a person like you. Didn't happen often. But the thing a productive person has to realize is that it only takes one, and there is a Randi waiting to greet him if he keeps after it.
smiles,
rb
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