- A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants.
- Don’t be irreplaceable, if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
- The more crap you put up with, the more crap you are going to get.
- You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
Who doesn’t know the Murphy’s laws? Now: Murphy’s Laws on Work.
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Writing Resume Artistry
When I just started my second job search I was thinking like this:
“I’m smart enough to build a winning resume. No need to pay or even to ask somebody for help. There is plenty of resources in the Internet. So I will not pay to those smart *sses advertising their resume writing miraculous skills. I’m a smart*ss myself”.
…It took me 4 long months to realize that the resume I’m sending each day in bulk is a peace of garbage. Nobody reads it more than a second line. How I have learned it? I finally gave up and hired the professional to review and fix my resume. At the beginning I was very suspicious: “How can this work if she had changed just few very small things in my original resume?”.
The result was miraculous: I’ve got a call on the second day. I went for an interview on the forth day.
And I’ve got hired on the 5th day. It was October 9 2001, just one month after the 9-11-2001 terrorist attacks. When it looked as nobody was hiring anymore.
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Pick a starting salary
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Person asked the young MBA fresh out of MIT, “And what starting salary were you looking for?”
The candidate said, “In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package.”
The HR Person said, “Well, what would you say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years – say, a red Corvette?”
The Engineer sat up straight and said, “Wow!!! Are you kidding?”
And the HR Person said, “Certainly, …but you started it.”
Have a life after death
“Do you believe in life after death?” the boss asked one of his employees.
“Yes, Sir.” the new recruit replied.
“Well, then, that makes everything just fine,” the boss went on. “After you left early yesterday to go to your grandmother’s funeral, she stopped in to see you
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“Walking in the opposite direction works, and Alice finds herself talking to the Red Queen” (Lewis Carroll).
Believe it or not but this trick worked not only for Alice but for me too. Many times. OK, few times. But worked 100% during the interview.
First time. I was a newcomer to America. I was full of hope and expectations. But month after month my excitement was declining. The hope to find a job was fading with each new day. Finally I gave up. Not in a desperate way.
I just said to myself, “OK if I cannot find a job I probably have to start my own business. I still have enough energy and experience and knowledge to switch to this path”.
And I switched. I have collected local information about business angels and govt. institutions and stuff and started to dig in this direction.
And at this very moment the Monster agent brought me an email with the job description. I’ve read it just by inertion. What was funny the hiring company was located just a block away. “What a heck!”, I said to myself, “I’m not loosing anything if I’d go there just to take a look”.
Guess what? I’ve got my first fulltime job! Later I was oftenn returning to this point in my mind until I understood what made this interview so different and successful as a result.
I was not going to get a job! I didn’t wear nice suit, I was in jeans and sporting shoes. I wasn’t nervous. I was relaxed. I was joking during the interview while answering the questions. As a result I was able to make a very positive impression as a highly self confident person.
I know what you’re thinking. “Coincidence. But how can I say myself I’m not looking for a job when I’m actually do?”
Well, that’s not easy. But if you say yourself that this next interview is just another one. And that you don’t really worry about the result because it’s not the end of the world then the trick might work. It worked for me several times. So there is a big chance it will work for you too.
GO IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. TELL YOURSELF YOU DON’T WORRY ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR INTERVIEW.
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Hello world!
I left the title for my first post as it was in the original WP sample on purpose. I like it as a good starting title.
This is my “initial” greeting to all of you who visits my blog and who wants to improve their competitiveness on the job market.
And I hope it will be interesting and useful reading .