If you have excellent working skills, the job is yours

So, how do you hunt for a job?

With the only skills that matter -- your work skills. Identify employers that need your work skills. Find out who exactly: the specific industry, then the exact companies, and finally the specific manager. If you're good at your work, talking to the relevant people will be easy. You have everything in common with them. Find out what exactly are the problems, challenges and opportunities these employers are facing. Follow these steps, and you'll be talking with the right people about the right job.

If you're good at your work, you can be good at interviewing. The kinds of interviews where people get hired are ones that are about the thing you are already very good at your work. What you need to bone up on is the problems and challenges the employer is facing. Then you can appropriately apply your work skills to demonstrate how you are going to handle them. That's what we call The New Interview™.

Review your work skills, and answer the only question that really matters: What can you do to help this employer succeed?

Think that takes more research? Absolutely right. Do what the headhunter does: Talk with other employees at the company, talk with the company's vendors and even its customers. Figure out what the work is all about before you interview.

Employers pay headhunters for candidates who can do the work profitably, not for clever interview repartee. So, headhunters make sure their candidates are prepared to "go live" in the interview and do the job. That's the skill that wins job offers.

Last edited by husnain (2015-05-06 10:19:41)