Your career is your most valuable financial asset, offering you many financial benefits. You can make the most of it by getting a college degree and managing your career to its full potential. Doing this well can earn you millions of dollars in extra income throughout your lifetime.
Last year I spent a lot of time talking about a great book about managing your career called Career Intensity. I loved the book and featured it prominently over the following months.
In December, I asked David Lorenzo, the author of Career Intensity and blogger at the Career Intensity Blog, to write a few guest posts on career management and he graciously accepted. So today we have his first piece -- one centered on the four key qualities that are essential for a successful job search. Here are his thoughts:
Do you want a job with better hours? How about better benefits? Would more money be nice? How about more paid time off?
Of course you do.
There is a system that can help you achieve these goals.
I'm going to share the highlights of this system with you in a series of articles.
The first step in this system is to change your mindset.
There are four qualities that every job-changer needs to possess in order to conduct a successful career-change campaign. They are:
Confidence - Too many people start a job search when their present employer is unhappy with them. Maybe they have received a verbal reprimand from their boss, maybe they have received a written warning or maybe they have been fired. Any of these things (or about 100 other things I have not mentioned) can shake the confidence of someone who is looking for a new job.
If you are the job seeker, it is essential that that you put any negativity about your performance behind you. Other people cannot define you - you have the ability to exceed the expectations of any employer. Put past negative issues behind you and focus on your past success. Concentrate on how you can recreate that success in a new setting. The future is bright regardless of what has happened in the recent past.
Discipline - In order to get a new job you are going to need to follow a system that is proven to be successful. This means performing some actions repeatedly and consistently. This requires discipline. You must maintain this discipline throughout your job search process. Acting in a disciplined fashion will produce results.
Persistence - You must be relentless in your pursuit of a new job. You must run down every lead. You must make all the phone calls. You will deal with massive rejection and you will fight through it. In the end, you persistence will be rewarded with a pay increase, better benefits and better quality of life. You must fight the desire to quit. This extraordinary resistance will be present at all times. You must defeat it.
Capability - You must know: what to do, when to do it and how to do it. I'll help you with that.
Take some time today and prepare yourself mentally for the journey you are about to embark upon. You should be filled with excitement because the future is bright. You are taking charge of your career and you will control your destiny!
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