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Digg it UP - Your First Job
Traditional brochures typically tell the story of your company, i.e. they give evidence that you or your company have the wherewithal in personnel, capital, clout and expertise to perform the services you say you can perform or deliver the product you're selling. They are usually 3 or 4 panel affairs, printed on glossy paper, and featuring nice graphics or photographs. Think of company brochures as a resume for your business...Thus they are part of your "collateral" package.But do you need a company brochure? Producing a company brochure is often time-consuming and expensive. The money and effort spent creating a company brochure may be better used on another marketing method.Four questions to help you decide if you need a company brochure:1. Do your competitors use company brochures?That doesn't mean your biggest competition printed a brochure in 1992 and still have 1000 copies sitting around their office in dusty boxes. If you see your competitor's brochure when you make calls to potential clients, if they're mailing them out to your target area, handing them out at association meeting, etc., then you need one, too.2. Do your clients ask for one?If your clients expect a company brochure, then you should have one available. The more costly the service or product you provide, the longer the buying process will take your customer. Brochures and accom
2. Get networked
Get to know people and be friendly with them. Your work may warrant, at times, getting in touch with different people. During such occasions their support and guidance will be very much valuable and useful. But irrespective of your work requirements it’s always good to know people. Coffee and lunch breaks are times to mingle with people across the organization.
Come out of the shell. Don’t restrict your circle with just among those in your department. Reach out to
The most valuable tools to promote your home business are free. Yes, they are completely, totally free. Blogging and article marketing are the most important things you can do for your online business opportunity. You can use blogging and article marketing to promote any niche that you want.You can sign up for a free blog online and start posting entries. This blog will then have its own address where people will be able to view the information you post. If you set this blog up to offer some great tips that relate to your services or products you are showing yourself to be an expert and people will start to trust you.Blogging can be a trust builder but it can also be a traffic builder. If you establish this blog and post regularly you will want to include links to your website where you sell your products and services. When you create links to your website you are optimizing your website and the search engines will find your site more attractive. When search engines find your site attractive you will rank higher in searches for your keywords.Article marketing works similarly to blogging only instead of a website that you are posting to, you post your articles to article directories. You can do this by submitting them manually to directories you find by searching or you can find a reputable company to do some of this work for you. Companies of this sort charge
Fresh out of college. Loads of dreams. A whole new world waiting to be explored. And you are just waiting to put all those fat books you have spent the last few years studying into practice. Self-assured and confident yet anxious about the new world ahead. To make all those castles in the air real…with your very first job.
Like every other first experience, the first job is one experience which you wouldn’t remember to forget. The experience could make lasting impressions in your mind.
Desirables
In your first job, there are a few things that are helpful. Though they are not mandatory yet they are desirable in view of the long-term benefits they offer.
1. Postpone marriage.
2. Starting up with MNCs helps.
3. Start in line functions.
Choose between:
· Accounting vs. Audit.
· Sales vs. Marketing.
· Production vs. Planning.
4. Start in the private sector.
5. Work outside your hometown.
The Basics
First, understand that your first job is not a job. It is an extension of your education. The first job is the foundation of your job career.
By foundation of your job career I mean that the experiences you come across leave indelible impressions on your mind that are often lasting ones. It shapes your attitude and outlook towards lot of many things.
The first job is a stepping stone to higher levels in the corporate hierarchy. Don’t start looking for new jobs when the going gets tough or when someone offers a few hundred bucks more. Stay on for a minimum period of 5 years. The experience provides you a solid base upon which you can build your career.
Be flexible and go mobile. Don’t stick to one city/state and get your career grounded. Be prepared to shift anywhere. Travel widens your horizons.
Seven Steps to a strong foundation
1. Right Attitude
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
- William John Bennett
Have an open mind. Never judge anyone or anything immediately. Wait and watch before jumping into conclusions. Having the right attitude towards work and people is as important as the ability to work. Modern companies require their employees to sport the right attitude that is in full alignment with their goals and objectives. To start with you must be a law-abiding employee giving due respect to people, processes, practices, hierarchy and the organization.
Even clock-watching in the first or initial days of your first job is a pointer of your attitude. Don’t clock-watch and flee the workplace as soon as the clock strikes six in the evening. People notice your activities intensely and they may form fixed impressions in their minds. So don’t hesitate to stay put and finish your job if the situation warrants. Believe me, people would appreciate.
Again, attitude matters most since it measures your altitude. It can spell how far you can go on the organizational hierarchy. Right attitude is one where the mind looks at things with a positive outlook. You are open to ideas and there are no limiting factors to cloud your views and opinions about people and their ideas.
2. Get networked
Get to know people and be friendly with them. Your work may warrant, at times, getting in touch with different people. During such occasions their support and guidance will be very much valuable and useful. But irrespective of your work requirements it’s always good to know people. Coffee and lunch breaks are times to mingle with people across the organization.
Come out of the shell. Don’t restrict your circle with just among those in your department. Reach out to p
If you like to plan your day the night before, you are ahead of the crowd. But for the rest of us, planning is a general thing that will simply consist of a list of items to be accomplished. The list is tackled in an importance order and interruptions take a toll of what happens. In my office, I like to get in early to out my routine in order. Unfortunately, I do not always get the quiet time as I have a colleague that also comes in early and likes to talk about what he is doing (and he interrupts every 3 or 4 minutes or so). So how can you plan your day without worrying about the constant interruptions and get everything accomplished? I do my planning by setting up a daily routine. The routine consists of all the small things that I need to do on a daily basis which will make the difference between success and mediocrity. For example, if you have your own business, it is the accumulation of things accomplished that make the difference in your success. For your marketing routine you may want to do some of the following each day (by the way, if you do a small thing everyday for 365 days, you will have accomplished something very big): Read 10 pages of a business or personal improvement book (this only takes a few minutes). By the end of the year you will have read 3650 pages. Wow, what an education you will have. Make 10 phone calls everyday
2. Starting up with MNCs helps.
3. Start in line functions.
Choose between:
· Accounting vs. Audit.
· Sales vs. Marketing.
· Production vs. Planning.
4. Start in the private sector.
5. Work outside your hometown.
The Basics
First, understand that your first job is not a job. It is an extension of your education. The first job is the foundation of your job career.
By foundation of your job career I mean that the experiences you come across leave indelible impressions on your mind that are often lasting ones. It shapes your attitude and outlook towards lot of many things.
The first job is a stepping stone to higher levels in the corporate hierarchy. Don’t start looking for new jobs when the going gets tough or when someone offers a few hundred bucks more. Stay on for a minimum period of 5 years. The experience provides you a solid base upon which you can build your career.
Be flexible and go mobile. Don’t stick to one city/state and get your career grounded. Be prepared to shift anywhere. Travel widens your horizons.
Seven Steps to a strong foundation
1. Right Attitude
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
- William John Bennett
Have an open mind. Never judge anyone or anything immediately. Wait and watch before jumping into conclusions. Having the right attitude towards work and people is as important as the ability to work. Modern companies require their employees to sport the right attitude that is in full alignment with their goals and objectives. To start with you must be a law-abiding employee giving due respect to people, processes, practices, hierarchy and the organization.
Even clock-watching in the first or initial days of your first job is a pointer of your attitude. Don’t clock-watch and flee the workplace as soon as the clock strikes six in the evening. People notice your activities intensely and they may form fixed impressions in their minds. So don’t hesitate to stay put and finish your job if the situation warrants. Believe me, people would appreciate.
Again, attitude matters most since it measures your altitude. It can spell how far you can go on the organizational hierarchy. Right attitude is one where the mind looks at things with a positive outlook. You are open to ideas and there are no limiting factors to cloud your views and opinions about people and their ideas.
2. Get networked
Get to know people and be friendly with them. Your work may warrant, at times, getting in touch with different people. During such occasions their support and guidance will be very much valuable and useful. But irrespective of your work requirements it’s always good to know people. Coffee and lunch breaks are times to mingle with people across the organization.
Come out of the shell. Don’t restrict your circle with just among those in your department. Reach out to
When it comes to achieving success in a job interview, there are two big steps to make: you need to practice the interview technique and research the company you hope will employ you. Take both steps and achieve interview success.STEP NO. 1 PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICEIt's an age-old adage: practice makes perfect. And it applies to job interviews. There are two ways of practicing for an interview. One way is to simply go to as many job interviews as you can. The more times you go through the terror of a job interview, the better you'll get in the end. Better yet, you'll also be able to seek feedback on your job interview performance.Another way to practice is to get a friend role-play with you. Your friend can prepare a list of questions to ask you and you can practice answering them. A good way to check on your progress is to record your interviews on video and watch them later noting your body language and your fluency in answering your friend's questions.STEP NO. 2 RESEARCHResearch is vital. The type of research you should perform before your interview should offer you vital information in preparing your answers, knowing what to expect from the interview and the job, and getting to your interview on time.When conducting your research use all the information available to you. Begin with the Internet, use libraries, browse periodicals. Also speak w
Be flexible and go mobile. Don’t stick to one city/state and get your career grounded. Be prepared to shift anywhere. Travel widens your horizons.
Seven Steps to a strong foundation
1. Right Attitude
“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
- William John Bennett
Have an open mind. Never judge anyone or anything immediately. Wait and watch before jumping into conclusions. Having the right attitude towards work and people is as important as the ability to work. Modern companies require their employees to sport the right attitude that is in full alignment with their goals and objectives. To start with you must be a law-abiding employee giving due respect to people, processes, practices, hierarchy and the organization.
Even clock-watching in the first or initial days of your first job is a pointer of your attitude. Don’t clock-watch and flee the workplace as soon as the clock strikes six in the evening. People notice your activities intensely and they may form fixed impressions in their minds. So don’t hesitate to stay put and finish your job if the situation warrants. Believe me, people would appreciate.
Again, attitude matters most since it measures your altitude. It can spell how far you can go on the organizational hierarchy. Right attitude is one where the mind looks at things with a positive outlook. You are open to ideas and there are no limiting factors to cloud your views and opinions about people and their ideas.
2. Get networked
Get to know people and be friendly with them. Your work may warrant, at times, getting in touch with different people. During such occasions their support and guidance will be very much valuable and useful. But irrespective of your work requirements it’s always good to know people. Coffee and lunch breaks are times to mingle with people across the organization.
Come out of the shell. Don’t restrict your circle with just among those in your department. Reach out to
The main purpose of advertising in the business world is to promote sales in order to boost profits. As such, advertising has three basic aims:To inform To persuade and To remindOne of the most underestimated points is to REMIND. The cost of advertising is extremely high. One may therefore wonder if it is not a waste of money to advertise a product which is widely known and which has a good slice of the market. Take Coca-Cola for instance. It is known and is readily available in almost every city in the world and yet the company continues to advertise it. Why is this so, and is the company wasting profits?As i have already said, advertisers aim to inform the public about new or improved products and services and to persuade them to buy or use them. However, once the company has a slice of the market, it needs to remind the public that the products or services are still available, or it may well lose out to its competitors. I would be willing to bet anything if Coca-Cola stopped informing the public about their products a company like Pepsi would be the next giant.Many large companies have fallen into this trap, once they have their market they automatically assume people will carry on buying the products or services they offer. The ability to constantly inform consumers of a companies products and activities is an ongoing commitment that keeps major share holders
Even clock-watching in the first or initial days of your first job is a pointer of your attitude. Don’t clock-watch and flee the workplace as soon as the clock strikes six in the evening. People notice your activities intensely and they may form fixed impressions in their minds. So don’t hesitate to stay put and finish your job if the situation warrants. Believe me, people would appreciate.
Again, attitude matters most since it measures your altitude. It can spell how far you can go on the organizational hierarchy. Right attitude is one where the mind looks at things with a positive outlook. You are open to ideas and there are no limiting factors to cloud your views and opinions about people and their ideas.
2. Get networked
Get to know people and be friendly with them. Your work may warrant, at times, getting in touch with different people. During such occasions their support and guidance will be very much valuable and useful. But irrespective of your work requirements it’s always good to know people. Coffee and lunch breaks are times to mingle with people across the organization.
Come out of the shell. Don’t restrict your circle with just among those in your department. Reach out to
An interview almost invariably closes with the potential employer asking if you have any questions. Often an applicant will ask for clarification on benefits -insurance, vacation time, etc. While these are obviously important for you to know, they plant a seed in the interviewer's mind that maybe you are more interested in what the job can do for you than in how you can help the employer.Try to have three or four questions ready to ask that demonstrate your interest in the company and your desire to be a problem-solver.If you have been able to do some research, trot out a question or two that came to mind. If you have been able to come up with some ideas that relate to the problem, throw them out to see how the employer reacts.If you have been able to identify some trends or problems in the industry, ask how that is going to affect the company and what they are doing to deal with it. Show your concern about industry developments and what that may bode for the future.If some current challenges have been brought up earlier in the interview, ask for clarification and more detail.The more the interviewer interacts with you as if your concerns are mutual, and that possible solutions are something you could consider together, the more you will be seen as a valuable future member of his team and the more likely you will be asked to join that team.
2. Get networked
Get to know people and be friendly with them. Your work may warrant, at times, getting in touch with different people. During such occasions their support and guidance will be very much valuable and useful. But irrespective of your work requirements it’s always good to know people. Coffee and lunch breaks are times to mingle with people across the organization.
Come out of the shell. Don’t restrict your circle with just among those in your department. Reach out to people from across functions.
3. Learning the ropes
Your first task is to secure yourself – to transform the slippery toehold you have gained into a firm foothold. For this to happen you must become technically competent
Technical competence comes when you learn the job thoroughly. Transform the theoretical knowledge gained in your years of study into practical and workable application to the job you do. Learn as much as possible – across functions. The more you learn the better. Most novices fail by trying to learn the tricks of the trade. Instead, learn the trade itself. Learn across functions and become multi-skilled. That looks great on your resume.
More than learning what’s more important is the willingness to learn. Develop this desire to learn and there can be no stops for you. Many novices are shy of learning lest they would be branded ignorant. When you are struck somewhere don’t blink; ask help. People will explain how. Don’t live with ignorance. Dispel darkness with knowledge. And as the Danish proverb says, “Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.”
Be ashamed to say, “I don’t know”. Learn and you will never have to say that again.
Invest your time, energy and resources in learning without expecting anything in return.
4. Take Initiatives
“Folks who never do more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.”
- Elbert Hubbard
Without initiatives you are nowhere. You will not get noticed and counted. Initiatives prove your worth and serve as portraying you as pro-active, loyal and committed to the organization you work for. Higher-ups will start taking you seriously.
Initiative means exhibiting originality, doing a thing on your own volition without being told by someone.
What sets two trainees apart is this ability to take initiatives, to pitch in with ideas and suggestions in order to improve and simplify processes & procedures. “That’s-not-my-job”, “Why-should-I?” attitudes must go away for good in order to take initiatives. And taking initiatives is one way to get out of the pile and stand out distinctly.
Let me explain the value of taking initiatives with an example.
Three brothers, Jim, Mike and Bill were hired by a company on the same pay. Three years later, Jim was being paid $500 a month, Mike was receiving $1000 but Bill was making $1500.
Their father decided to visit the employer and questioned about the disparity of their income. He listened to the confused father and said, “I will let the boys explain themselves.”
Jim was summoned to the supervisor’s office and was told, “Jim, our company has just brought a large cargo ship loaded with Japanese electronic items. Will you please go over to the harbor and get a cargo inventory?”
A few minutes later, Jim returned to the office. “The cargo was one lakh units of Japanese stereos.” Jim reported “I got the information over the phone
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