Your job is what you will be doing during the major portion of
your life and it is what that will define how your life will be spent. You have
to spend half of your waking hours on your job which is why this most critical
decision of your life warrants for a lot more attention than what it currently
gets.
Keeping in view the importance and magnitude of the impact of your
job on your life, no amount of planning can be enough for it. Therefore, it is
recommended that you start giving your job and career a serious thought early
on. By ‘early’ we mean the times when you are at school and your fellows are
still planning their proms and partying hard!
Yogi Berra very rightly once said that “It gets late early out
there” and this is true for the job market as well. As soon as you are in your
final study year, you need to start preparing the ground and get in touch with
the job world out there.
Here is a guideline to help you get on with the act to get the early
bird’s worm!
Find your passion – To start with, you must pay the utmost importance to
your inner voice and ask yourself what is it that you will love to do for the
rest of your life as Confucius’s words of wisdom - “Choose a job you
love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” - stand very
valid even today.
Research & shortlist employers – After you are adequately sure of
what you want to become, do your research and make a list of organizations that
have the jobs that you are interested in. Scrutinize this list carefully and
pick out the ones that you find in line with your personal values, work
environment, lifestyle, compensation expectations or any other criteria that
are in the value-list. Looking for information on employers can be tough but if
you have the will, you will get your way. Make use of your network and contacts
like your family & teachers; use the social media platforms like LinkedIn
& Facebook; approach their current employees and ask them your questions
and you will surely get the information that will bring out the true image of
that organization’s ‘employer brand’.
Be known – Once you have your wish-list of employers ready, make it a
point to get in contact with them and never miss any opportunity to network
with anyone from those organizations. You have a number of options to become a
‘familiar face’ to your target organizations. Think about doing your projects
with those companies, find internship openings, add them to your LinkedIn
network, get in touch with their hiring heads and make the best use of job
fairs and on-campus events where your favorite employers are present. After
making that first contact, never lose sight of them and find suitable occasions
and events to keep reminding them of yourself until you are ready to apply for
jobs following your passing out from college.
Persevere and succeed – There will be times when you might not find your way
through the first time around but keep in mind that perseverance and a positive
outlook is the key to success. Never let your beliefs waiver for a second and
keep pushing ahead gently until you will land your dream job which is bound to
get you to the top and expand your horizons so that you never have to ‘work
a day in your life’.
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