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Halimah Madeline Bellows
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Champion Your Career
Self-Help
Author Insight
Nourishing Your Network
Having more education or a better degree is not necessarily going to get you the job you want. There are a lot of variables here. Basically your success in landing a job lies in your ability to assess the totality of your life experiences and relate them to your career goals and the job opening you are pursuing. Then you need to be able to “sell” yourself to the prospective employer in the interview. Instead of thinking you have to get another degree, look at the skills you have and the ones that are transferable into different occupations. Then put your package together and market yourself.
Book Excerpt
Champion Your Career
Let me again emphasize that about 80 percent of the job openings come from the hidden job market. You might believe that finding a job is a matter of luck and it’s true that very often it involves being at the right place at the right time. But you have to put yourself in the right place. You cannot wait for the phone or the doorbell to ring. You have to go out and seek your opportunity. So the people who have had luck—guess what, they made their luck happen! They made the calls, they made the contacts, they made the effort. You cannot wait for it to happen. You have to make your own luck.Myth #4: Big companies with lots of employees are naturally going to offer you the best chances of employment.Absolutely not true. Look at statistics from the government. They reveal that most of the new jobs are in businesses that have fewer than a hundred employees. So don’t just focus on big employers; look at the smaller companies too.
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