Dec 11
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New Grad Job Network and Knowing When to Act
Of course you want a job and have worked hard to get on once you are done with college. But, this doesn’t mean you know when to act. You need to know when to move and act when the time is right in order to get the best opportunities while looking to break into your career.
What makes national news about the market may have little to do with the reception you get in the marketplace. Surprising as it may seem, through good economies and bad, the total number of employed Americans is sure to increase over the long term. Furthermore, the openings available depend more on turnover than anything else… people who retire, leave or get terminated, thereby creating a job opening.
Another thing to keep in mind is that some people are in career situations that will only get worse if they don’t take action. The longer you wait to make a decision, the worse your situation may become.
The longer a person remains on the brink of losing a job, unhappy every day, under stress or unchallenged, the deeper the hole that person may dig for themselves. If you wait and allow this to happen, the negative impact on your mental outlook can be severe. You will never be able to approach marketing yourself with the right frame of mind.
Then there are some liabilities that only get worse with time. If you have topped out, or stayed in one industry or one company for a long time, you will get increasingly less marketable. Of course, age clearly gets more challenging with time. Things will only be more serious later on. You also need to concern yourself with your achievements that may have been signifi cant, but which can lose their impact. As time goes on, the power of those earlier achievements will become less and less. With senior executives and high achievers, the impact factor is very important.
You need to know that your future is in your hands, it is not up in the air. Some of it will be luck, but it will be mostly skill and knowing when to move.
With our system there might be a temptation to think that little effort is required to win an attractive job. We wish that everyone could experience that. But through our regular staff communications with thousands of job seekers, we have statistics that tell us otherwise. What we have found is that to make our system work, clients must use this advice aggressively. Of our most successful clients… people who succeeded in a minimum of time… 92 percent devoted a great many hours to their search. And, when we looked at the campaigns of people whose search took longer than expected, most had not taken aggressive advantage of our system.