Food For Thought.........

For individuals who are seeking employment, it may be necessary to look at your
personal value and professional competencies. To gain better opportunities, cons
ider the following options.
Make a simple personal exercise:
1. Reflect about your personal interest and vocation
2. Identify and explore your personal and professional values and competencies
3. Highlight these as valuable pieces when you are searching for employment
4. Demonstrate these values when you write your resume, gain additional developm
ent for your career
5. Demonstrate these values as not an option by the prospective employer
6. Seek for employers who value your abilities and competencies, research the ba
ckground, business culture and
organizational behavior of your prospective employer. Locate people that worked
there and employ your investigative approach in learning about them.
7. Communicate affectively only to employers who acknowledge the value on your a
bilities and ignore anyone who do not. Be confident to say "NO"
8. Put an extra effort in searching that quality employer for long term gains no
t for short term convenience, use critical thinking in making sure you are apply
ing to the right organization
9. Learn to interview interactively and strategically, get an interviewing Coach
to experience important scenarios and learn the art of interviewing
10. Negotiate and offer what can you do in adding value to the hiring organizati
on and not emphasizing your traditional skills
The identified ten pointers are not easy to tackle when someone has been out of
job for over many months. But take it as a compromise to yourself. Performing an
elimination process and selection is a valuable activity. You are giving yourse
lf a credit and in many ways, you are building your confidence. At the end, it w
ill give you a better optimism, greater fulfilment and energy when you will begi
n working with an employer that embraces you.

Where to find the right employment is the key question?

Current Paradigm Challenges:
The paradigm of current employment landscape has changed significantly and is ab
solutely different these days. Current hiring practices and procedures are influ
enced by the information technology driven applicant tracking system. You cannot
speak live with a person who will hire a qualified person. Every candidate is r
equired to complete their web-based application form. Unfortunately, there are w
eb portals of these employers that are not user-friendly.
The ethics of the hiring process have changed. Corporate Recruiters do not have
the basic etiquette and professionalism of communicating to their candidate. Man
y firms use the phrase 'customized service in doing business with them'. But whe
n comes to hiring practices majority of these companies do not train their corpo
rate recruiters to be pro-active and demonstrate the 'customised service'. Ackno
wledging an application with a personal email is not that difficult to do.
It enables a certain degree of professional appeal and respect from the candidat
e and that action when provided it will reinforce and align to the branding of t
he firm.