Loss of work is always a powerful stress. Of course, if you retired yourself – this is one thing. But what if after all, your employer was the initiator of the dismissal?
I generally advise to do nothing the first few days. It is necessary to calm down, collect your thoughts and think about a plan of action. But when you calm down, you need to start drawing up a plan of action.
It is important to have a rest. Job search is a potentially tedious, especially if you get negative results. It is necessary to provide regular rest here. For instance, holiday outings, watching movies, sports and sauna, stay in the family are good variants.
Many agencies do not welcome the re-mailing of resume or re-filling of the questionnaires in their agency. In this case it is necessary to know the phone contact person responsible for correction and completion of questionnaires and summaries, and contact him/her if necessary to adjust your data.
So, having made the list of vacancies you would apply for, take this list and begin ringing the companies in list, present yourself, learn who is responsible for the selection of personnel in this company, ask to switch you to this man (learn the phone number and calls back).
How not to reduce your chances to “zero point” when filling out questionnaires of employer?
Many people commit the same mistake in employment every day. What do I mean?
Everything is very simple. The applicant does not adapt the resume and the data that feeds into the profile of the employer under the asserted claims.
Here is a typical case. The girl came to get a job of the seller in the shop. She filled out the form, gave it to recruiters, and started to leave.
At the stage when the first thoughts about looking for a new job appear, you must clearly imagine, what is your present job, and what it does not suit you with. It is also necessary to formulate the main features of the work on which you would like to work (working hours, working conditions, wages, basic duties etc.).
From this we will build.
Draw up a list of:
- Newspapers, magazines, where you can learn about current job openings, post information about you.
- Friends who you can learn about the vacancy from.
- Recruiting agencies and employment agencies, labor exchanges.
- Potential employers, where the vacancies that may be of your interest could be found.
When the list is drawn up, we begin to act.
Step 1. Review all possible vacancies in newspapers and magazines. In parallel, having the opportunity, post information about yourself (mini-resumes, ads).
HR managers seek such ads when there are a lot of items that should be closed at short notice in the company. The market is represented with a lot of specialized publications. Each of them has its own niche.
You need to buy newspapers every week, to point out those jobs that you interest of and send resume. As a rule, the same ads appear in various newspapers, they may be from a company and from the employment agency or even a few agencies. The best way to send information about you is to do it using all the addresses.
There is also another cheap way to find staff – to view mini-resumes. They are very convenient for the human resources manager. They set out basic information, and it is possible to select suitable 3-4 mini-resumes of a dozen ones and talk on the phone immediately. They are easy to read in the newspaper and not full of superfluous details.
Unfortunately, for some reason a few applicants use this simple way of job search.
Firstly, it is quite effective – the possibility of fax does not come in any comparison with a circulation of newspapers.
Secondly, it is often psychologically easier when you do not transmit the summary and some calls you with a specific proposal.
Step 2. First of all, when a new vacancy appears, the employer is trying to tell the staff – may be there is the right person among someone’s friends and acquaintances.
Pluses are obvious – there is no cost and there are professional references.
Therefore, beginning the job search let your friends, former colleagues, fellow students know about your plan to find a new job.
Step 3. We visit, fill out an online questionnaire of recruitment agencies in your city, send CV there. It must be remembered that they are working on the customer, that is to say company, and are guided by its interests, ideas about what kind of employee they would like to see on a post.
In order to make the agency get interested with you, you must have a profile education, work experience in the specialty required, preferably in companies with sonorous names.
Unfortunately, graduates and those who have decided to change the profession are unlikely to be of interest to recruiters. However, to it is not worth of it to neglect such an opportunity.
Image is important thing when you seek to have successful career. But, it is good to be small and not to worry about your image, reputation, and how you look like in the eyes of others. To be honest, sometimes I think about the times when could do all things that pleased the soul, absolutely not thinking about consequences. But those days have passed away, and now I have to weigh my deeds and actions and match them in order to create an image.
I remember the moment when I thought about the image first. This event occurred when I was 14 years old. I saw an illustration behind the fashion article in a magazine: some Parisian woman was in a classic coat and a scarf, coming out of curl in the wind. “Oh, that’s a real woman!” – I thought then. Long coat, scarf and plume of perfume – that was the perfect image for a long time.
Should you agree with the boss in everything?
What side to choose? Should I always say what think about my leadership?
What do you think about articles writing for the Internet? The most popular texts in the network are the following:
* Ordered written article under the certain subject – copywriting article
* Copied papers of other authors (roughly speaking, it is a remake) – rewriting
* Promo, Advertising, Information article / text / news about something or someone – PR copywriting.
* Information paper for users and search engines – SEO-copyrighting
* Small texts that help user to navigate the site –so called usability-copywriting.
The easiest way is to start with rewriting. Despite the fact that the cost of rewriting is little (your earnings from the rewriting will be from 1 to 2 USD per thousand characters in average), you should practice it necessarily.
Then you can start trying to write on a given topic. For example, write an article about the first thing you will see after have detached the look from the computer now. Believe me, the whole treatises could be made about the light bulb or wallpaper.
By the way, you can write not only for a real customer. For example, if you wrote a series of articles on the same bulb, you can try to sell these texts and thus make money (to do this, leave the announcement of the sale of the text on the special site or forum).
There is a very important concept of “uniqueness of the text” in the network. The customer, taking your work, will surely check the written texts weather they are unique with the help of one of the services concerning the plagiarism existence.
Once you have learned how to rewrite and write order articles on a certain subject, you can develop following turn of the profession – writing of small explanatory texts. It only seems that small texts are easier to write than long ones.
In fact, it is very difficult to put the most important thing in 2 sentences. And in the case of explanatory texts on the sites it is doubly difficult, since in these two sentences you must both inform the user concerning the information about the topic and also explain to him how to find the information in this section more quickly.
By the way, many practitioners recommend learning to write short texts as follows: Take a long article (at least 2000 characters), and made a note up to 800 characters on it, noting only the essence and important points of the article. Then let someone of your friends read the article and your note, ask the opinion. And do so 50 times minimum.
Aerobatics in the texts for the Internet is a SEO-copywriting (but it is best paid). It is important for all sites as they are seen with the search engine (Google, Yahoo etc.). And what place the site has in the results from a search engine, because search engines give main stream of visitors for all sites.
When ranking sites (defining positions in search results), search engines look at many factors of a site, including the content (text content) of the resource. To understand what a topic the website is dedicated to, search engine scans with its robot the site and selects keywords that are most often used in texts on a site.
Career development is closely linked to financial growth, although quite often you can sacrifice one for another. So, moving to a higher position with the same pay, you can be sure that it will bring larger dividends in future.
The situation when, you stay on the original position, but the terms of your responsibilities expands, and you feel that your leadership have noticed you and thus push you up the career ladder, is completely acceptable.
On the other hand, if you grew up “out of short pants” of your responsibilities, and the rising is not expected, it is unlikely for you to be able to tolerate this state of affairs for a long time. And even a gain in payroll will be at best only as the delay of your decision’s execution.
However, the rush is not worth it. It is possible that there will be an opportunity to move to another area of work, but it is an opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills in new capacity, in the new environment. Carrying out other tasks, develop abilities you have not had before, thus increasing your value as a specialist. This is called as the horizontal growth.
We have not mentioned here such problems as hidden sexual harassment in the workplace, irreconcilable differences of religious or philosophical positions. We are not talking here about any personal friction with colleagues or management. After all, if a person initially gets in a hostile to him environment, he seeks to withdraw immediately from such a place and change the work without any hesitation.
It rather means the overall climate in the team. What kind of behavior in the team is considered as the norm among the colleagues? Do they act as a team, or do they just build coalitions of “pro” and “against” each other? Does the mutual help exist there, or laying the blame for the failed project on mates is accepted. This is something worth thinking about. If there is an unfavorable climate in a team of your company, it is unlikely to achieve any success without the opaque intrigue. But you have come in order to work and not to play games. As a result, you can serve for the benefit of the common cause faithfully for several years, and, eventually, be dismissed as a result of trivial intrigues or some kind of fraud.
It is probably familiar situation to many of us, when the salary is delayed, the leadership is being changed more often than the flowers on a reception do, but the future is covered with fog and uncertainty.
What do candidates usually write in a resume? “I want to find work in … … and stable company.” So, what is stability? How nice to us this word is. Let’s talk frankly.
Many people understand such states under the stability as:
- Salaries without delay; – vacation on time and in full capacity; – it is not so easy for them to fire me; – even if I am dismissed, the firm is stable and has the money on its account to pay me compensation for the appropriate period of time.
And in this case, a stable company is a synonym to a large company, and they do not only disappear in the blink of an eye, but always are under the scrutiny of public officials who are ready to fine such company for the violation of labor laws and negotiate with it then…
It’s no a secret that there are 2 main “human” aspects on a workplace:
• Money, that is, wages, or own profit
• Interest. This means the realization of dreams, education, life experiences, hobbies etc.
Of course, we can consider only that work as an ideal, which combines both these aspects. Unfortunately, this does not occur as often as we would like, so … we change work from time to time.
What motivates us to look for a new job? We will discuss typical reasons in this article below, but as for now we assume that the main motivation for the change of work is our dissatisfaction with one aspect or another, or both of them together.
So, let us work together to reason, when it is the moment of transition from reflection to action.
Wages are not rising
The most popular motive is the financial one. I have worked for a company during the long period of time; have invested much energy and ideas in it. But my salary now and the salary I have started with are the same.
“We have got a period of formation in the firm, we are just beginning and indicators do not predict the growth of wages according to the last quarter of…” Once we cease to meet such phrases of our boss. In the end, I am an employee and want the growth. If I did not get it here, I would seek it elsewhere.
In order to understand weather you are being got paid adequately, consider the current situation on the labor market: what money is now offered to professionals with your education, experience and knowledge. It does not matter what salary was offered at the moment employment, a lot could change since. In case the cost of your professional profile and skill level has increased, but wages are not improved, you should make your management board pay attention to the situation. If the situation does not improve – it is time to look for a new employer.
You have come to the company with a great desire to implement your ideas and, consequently, bring your contribution to its prosperity. Let us suppose you have succeeded. And no longer can. It is difficult to understand whose fault it is, but the fact remains – the novelty and the mood is gone. However, this situation is not the most common.
More often it happens that you, being filled and overflowing with fresh ideas and sentiments, bump on the regular bureaucratic routine of well-established steering apparatus. And here, the initiative is often not something that is not encouraged, it may be destroyed in the bud. Otherwise, those who showed good fellow may become a competitor very soon. Especially, such a situation is typical for large offices of international companies with large budgets.
So, must you change it or not? This decision is always difficult to make. Dostoyevsky wrote that most of people afraid of each of their new step. And everyone, having carefully weighed all the pros and cons, should make this choice himself. Nevertheless, the change of work – this is just a change of work. This is not the end of your life, as often happens, it seems, but rather a new beginning. The vast majority of those who once decided to quit his/her job, wanting a career and professional growth, has not regretted it.
Nevertheless, the decision should never be taken spontaneously. It, like ripe fruit, must itself fall to the ground. But after that, you should not let it just lie there. If the decision is made – act.
Many problems and misunderstandings in the workplace can be avoided being aware of the basic behaviours of men and women. This is important when interacting with colleagues, and in the chain called “head-subordinate”, because the motivation of men and women are different, and therefore they need to be operated differently. Career opportunities and interests must be offered each group. It is proved that in a team where there are both men and women, the work is efficient and the results are better. Therefore, instead of being annoyed because of the gender characteristics of your colleagues, it is better to use the advantages of each of them for the benefit of the general affairs.
There are several advices for women how to behave on a workplace.
Modesty and restraint remained as the prerogative of the Victorian era. In our time, they will not bring you success in your career, so if you think that your idea really improve a company’s business, do not keep silent about it. And do not allow others to assign your achievements!
Learn how to stand up for yourself. Do not allow men to interrupt you, and never give in to intimidation. But there is a little advice: do not try to take everything under control. Use a natural charm and communication skills – let everyone leave the meeting feeling that he has been heard.
Do not finish saying with the words “Do not you think so?”, “After all is this possible?” Or even worse: “Well, OK?”. You have left school long time ago, so stop asking permission for everything.
Leave the emotional details and unnecessary comments. Express thoughts clearly and distinctly.
Do not go into discussions on personal issues. Talk about work at work.
Speak the truth, and do not be afraid of offending the feelings of the interlocutor. Do not think that person will be pleased to hear about him something good first and the list of misdemeanours then. Go straight to the point.
Do not try to resemble men. It doesn’t fit tou. Use women’s strengths.
Do not take others’ guilt. Do not apologize just out of courtesy, but sincerely apologize if you are really wrong.
Keep track of your body language: giggles and smiles will turn you from a serious business woman, whose opinion is being listened, into the schoolgirl.
If a man asks you not to take the issue to heart, try to do so. Men regard to a lot of things easier. Try to do so.
Here are several advices for men how to behave on a workplace.
Spare no time to establish good relations. And it means plenty of communication, such as in a bar with friends, only without the beer and football.
Keep in mind the good manners. You would not believe what benefit could be taken from the words “please” and “thank you”.
Pause in the words: listen carefully to opinions of fellow women, do not interrupt her.
Women take everything to heart closely, and if you had not understood this at school, it’s time, finally, to become an adult man. The fact that is simply expression for you, may seem rude and cruel for women. Be softer.
