Employer who wants value for money paid for a job must of necessity have a clear standard upon which performance is measured. Therefore an employee should be bold to ask for The Job Specifications Statement or manual.

Without a measure you wouldn’t know whether you are meeting up with the target or not. Without a target there would be no focus in attaining unto higher level of productivity.

Career, like a business and a life to be lived should be purposely driven. Career leaders are driven by and on purpose.

What is the reason why you want to have a job?

Why do you want a specific job?

There must be a well stated reason(s). Remember that the reason for taking up a job should be more than money because the motivations from money are usually short-lived.

The job you took should be primarily a means to express yourself and your God given talents. In doing this satisfactorily brings in the money.

This is why you find out that a new employee who is driven primarily by money will begin after few months on the job to grow apathy towards the job which used to give him excitement in time past.

When the excitement due to money is gone, purpose is what you have left. When remunerations are poor, something higher should keep you going which should be your overriding life purpose. At the end of life, when you look back, what would you be glad you are able to accomplish? If you don’t have a compelling reason, you cannot fix yourself to the exercise of getting on with the challenges of a job.

Job without a strong overriding purpose will grind one down. To make money the reason is to be easily corrupted on the job.

What is the compelling reasons that can keep you on a job; even in critical moments?

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Always find clear vision why you are taking up a job (beyond mere cash or material accumulation).

Among your purpose is the desire for a quality life and positive contribution. Your overarching life purpose is your supreme navigation tool for an outstanding life whether on the job or in real life. Purpose on a job helps you chart your coordination with clarity; and you don’t have to be supervised to do every nitty-gritty of your job.

Without purpose, you can waste the rest of your life at one spot only to retire with nothing to show for it.

Purpose is everything!

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When you have a target job; let it be your ultimate goal. Often your dream job will usually be beyond your grasp at the beginning for lack of necessary experiences. It is your dream to always go for jobs bigger than the one you are currently occupying.

Experience cannot be gathered right in your home. The wisdom of top achievers is to be on the going; find some job(s) relevant to their dream job in order to gather enough experiences. The smaller job should have some correlations, features and similarity with the ultimate job.

I have a young man whose experience in a one-man telecommunication business gave him the little experience that launched him into a multinational telecommunication firm.

Don’t take a job without a purpose; every job should be purposely chosen. This is why a lesser paying job that has correlation to your ultimate job should be given much consideration than some medium level jobs that has a dead-end.

While on the job, be conversant with the skill sets necessary and needful to be learnt and of useful consequence in subsequent dream job.

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Action is the step that makes the difference between your thought and what you become. Don’t think opportunities will come to you on platter of gold. Everything that works out well must be labored upon. Even when a door is opened you still need to walk through it.

Here are some actions that could help you to achieve your dream job

1. Take the list of places you will want to work. Let the list be few so that you can be focused.
2. Make research on those companies, what you know about an organization will determine whether your interests will be renewed or you want to look for another firm.
3. Make friends in those establishments; sincere friendship. Don’t wear it on your face that you are befriending them because you want the job.
4. Know the requirements that could get you a job in the firms.
5. Update yourself with requisite skills before next openings.
6. Find the power brokers in those organizations and seek how you can legitimately impress them.
7. Be patient, keep the job at hand if you have any and do your best while on the job.

Another set of action useful ahead of getting a job:

1. Self development: Build your self esteem; make yourself the kind of person people will want around them.
2. Skill development: develop new skills everyday that will give you the edge
3. Personality development: Work on your temperament and adjust it to suit the particular kind of job you are seeking; there are different personalities for different kinds of job.
4. Develop a winning attitude. A bad attitude could make getting or keeping a job a daunting experience while the right attitude could open many job doors for one.
5. Relational development: Learn how to flow and relate with every kind of person out there. The workplace is an assembly of diverse character.
6.  Dressing and fashion taste: Dress for the job, understand the dress code; simplicity, cleanliness and being moderate often pass in many corporate organizations.

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SWOT analysis (alternatively SWOT matrix) is an acronym for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and is a structured planning method that evaluates those four elements of a job, organization, project or business venture and can be applied towards job search and to evaluate an employee.

Strengths: characteristics of the job seeker (personnel) that gives him an advantage over others

Weaknesses: characteristics that places one at a disadvantage relative to others

Opportunities: elements in the environment that the job seeker or personnel could exploit to advantage.

Threats: elements in the environment that could cause trouble or limitations e.g. competition.

SWOT analysis groups key pieces of information into two main categories:

Internal factors – the strengths and weaknesses internal factors that are intrinsic or part of you. You must know your strength and weakness. Your strength guides you to what kind of job you should look for. Again, you must know those weaknesses you must surmount e.g. seeking for more training or education. The more you reduce your weakness factor the more you become relevant.

External factors – the opportunities and threats presented by the environment external to you. You must find a way of harnessing your environment. This is where creative ingenuity comes in. Two people could be equally qualified for an opening. Yet one may not be abreast of the opportunity, so the other who is aware would lay hold of the opportunity.

When you are job searching you must know your abilities, your resources, gifts and talents; they are your marketable strength. Your weaknesses include those limitations within you which include qualification deficiency, physique, language, etc. Seek for ways to build up or overcome your area of weakness.

Find opportunities and make the best of them, failure to get or access opportunities makes our skills of little value.

Threats to your career growth include competitors i.e. other applicants or personnel that have similar competence; what you need to do is to use your creative power to beat through the competition in the market place.

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Man is created to naturally want more: aspire more and grow more. Irrespective of the job you are engaged in now I believe one of your noblest desires is to grow on the job or find a better job than you are currently engaged in. This paper will also help prepare the unemployed to create their own job. Even if you are well contented with your present job and status at the workplace you still have much to gain from this paper.

Galvanizing Your Thought

Galvanize your thought to see possibility. What you can imagine, you can get but what you cannot imagine you cannot strive to achieve. There are thousands of different jobs out there, if you don’t make up your mind you will be hooked up with just any job out there.

You are what you think not what you wish.

Old age is not far off, many people drift from one job to the other and before they wake up old age set on them. Upon interviewing them, many of these old people told me that they intend doing the job only for a couple of years. Sadly, they got old on the same job because they failed to look far enough.

Thus, before you take up that job, you must have a clear goal of where you are going, how far you want to attain and the quality of life you want to settle for on the long run. This paper does not really give you the quick fix on getting a job; but it offer certain and long term support for a richer career life.

Your thought has to be definite and focus on what it wants; definiteness of purpose is what brings about realization. The difference between a lion and other animals is that the lion is the most focused and determined among animals. The lion is not the fastest animal, it is not the biggest or strongest but it is the king of all animals because it is focused and determined to utilize maximally all its endowment for the kill. When your thought is focused, you will more often get what you want.

A less skilled applicant will get a better job if he is well focused to maximize the showcasing of all his endowment. We have many skilled people out there who are nothing but bunch of failure.

Choose to be the lion king.

Focus on getting the best in the market place. Remove your old disempowering thoughts, the limiting idea. Anything is possible; you can get incredible results in life. You can get that job; it is a matter of time.

Focus your thought on what you want and avoid every bit of distraction. The thought you focused on is what you become. A hazy idea of what type of job you want will land you a non-descript job.

Climb higher in your thought, paint the picture you want until it is so enriching and exhilarating that you are ready to run with it. What you don’t love you cannot be passionate about.