Getting Hired Fast - You choose the job not the job choose you!

Here I will help you decide what job you’re looking for then you can proceed to find it! No one succeeded in finding somthing which they have not decided what is that.
Note: if you already have a clear idea of the job you’re looking for, these exercises will still reinforce your goal. Remember: you can’t hit a target that you can’t see, so it’s vital to know exactly what job you are looking for.

Two critical action steps for you:
1) Choose your three most marketable skills to use in your next job (not 4 skills or 15, since you must convey a tightly focused picture to employers of what you can do for them, and nobody can be expert in 15 skills).
2) Choose the best, most in-demand jobs that require those three skills, so you know what to look for;
For this two-step process, you’re going to use three simple resources that won’t cost you a penny: a ballpoint pen, pad of paper and a large job search Web site, such as Monster.com or jobsdb.com

Step 1) Choose your three most marketable skills to use in your next job.
About 95 people out of 100 hundred will have a hard time answering this question: “What are your three skills that you want to use most in your next job?”
In other words, what three things do you do best and most enjoy doing?
If you have trouble answering that question, don’t be afriad. Many people are at the same state as you not knowing what they enjoy doing.
Now here’s the good news: we’re going to quickly and easily define your three favorite employment skills, the ones you’ll use in your next job.
Ready? Let’s go!
RIGHT NOW, on a sheet of paper, write down as many skills as you can that you enjoy doing. Do not censor yourself -- there are no wrong answers. Just write for 60 seconds and come up with as many as you can.
Finished? Good.
If you’re like most people, you wrote anywhere from three to 10 or more skills. Things like: writing, training people, customer service, managing others, public speaking, etc.
Again, there are no right or wrong answers, so don’t worry if your list looks strange or if some unexpected skills turn up.
Now, do the following exercise, which can generate surprising insights into your personality. You are going to rate each skill against the others. You’ll easily determine your top three skills this way.
Here’s how.
Take your list and match the first skill up against every other and put an X next to the skill you enjoy more in each pair that you’re looking at. Your list and rankings may look like this:
writing - X train people (I’d rather train people than write, so train people gets an “X”)
X writing - customer service (I prefer writing to customer service, so writing gets an “X”)
X writing - managing others (I’d rather write than manage others, so writing gets an “X”)
writing - X public speaking (I enjoy speaking vs. writing, so public speaking gets an “X”)
Then, pair the second skill with those you haven’t matched it with yet, and repeat the exercise, like this:
X train people - customer service,
X train people - managing others,
train people - X public speaking,
Do this for every skill until you have matched and rated each one against all the others. Then, total up the number of X marks for each skill. The three skills with the most X marks are your three favorites.
Easy, isn’t it?
Now that you have your three job-search skills picked out, you can move on to Step 2 …
Step 2) Choose the best, most in-demand jobs that require those three skills.
This will help you quickly figure out which jobs to look for.
Here’s where you’ll use a Website like Monster.com as your resource. You’re not looking for jobs at this point, only information. You want to get new ideas for the types of jobs you could look for using the three skills you identified in step 2 above.

Let’s say your three favorite skills are writing, training and managing. Go to Monster.com and look for the “Key Words” box near the top of the page.
I typed in the first two skills above: writing and training, and did not check on any category or location, because I wanted to generate the most results possible for jobs posted nationwide. Remember: we’re brainstorming here, so the more jobs listed, the more ideas we can generate.
Experiment with different combinations to see where this leads you.
Among the openings I found were such job titles as Manager of Medical Writing, Training Coordinator, Full-time Tutor, and Communications Specialist.
That’s quite a range! It certainly gives me plenty of ideas about what jobs to look for. When you do this exercise, it will generate ideas for you, too, to help you choose your dream job from the widest range possible.
Plus, when you start searching for jobs based on your favorite, most-marketable skills, you will quickly get a sense how many jobs are available and at what salary level.
So, expand your search terms and your thinking until you hit it. It’s that simple.
This exercise will help you save weeks or months of frustration looking for jobs that simply aren’t there.

And here’s the best part: once you clearly define the job you seek, wonderful things start to happen …
Remember when you bought the car you drive now and it seemed like suddenly, every third person was driving the same vehicle as you? It had always been out there on the road, but now you saw it more, because you were more receptive to that particular style and color of car.
It’s the same with your job search.
Once you know exactly what kind of job you seek, you will suddenly start to see job openings where you never saw them before. Ideas and employment leads will come to you, almost as if by magic. Just wait and see!
That’s it for this section. Congratulations on taking that first step toward your next job!
Action Steps
Let’s write down what you’ve come up with:
1. You’ve identified the three skills you want to use in your dream job. Write them below:
i. __________________________
ii. __________________________
iii. __________________________
2. You’ve used Monster.com to brainstorm job titles that use those skills. Write below the 5 job titles that appeal to you the most:
i. __________________________
ii. __________________________
iii. __________________________
iv. __________________________
v. __________________________
Congratulations! You now know the skills you want to use and the jobs that will let you use them. You know more about yourself than approximately 80% of all job seekers.

There is alot for today. Stay tuned.
Act With Passion

The Career Expert, Greater Asia