I Dare Say "You are Lazy"

When our Prime Minister Lee warned of job losses in the year ahead…The world is entering the most serious economic crisis in 60 years and Unemployment surges to 5-year high as employers cut workers for eighth straight month and companies that have retrenched include world giant corporations like Philips, DBS, Motorola, IM Flash, Citi Banks, Western Digital etc...

I still obeserve that many un-employed people are not working hard. What do I mean by that? Do you know that looking for a job is a full time job? Well what is a full time job then? A full time job is one typically start at 9am till 6pm officially and more often than not, employee stay up till 7 or 8 pm. It is not uncommon for some to worked till 10 pm to rush for a project completion or deadline. I have know of IT professional work through the night just to get the system up and running.

So, how many people that you know that are unemployed are working this hard. My observation is nil. It is just not happening. Why? It is the belief that nothing much can be done and they will try and if they get an interview that is good and if they do no get one, it is nothing much they can do. I like to stir in you that it is 100% not true. There are many thing you can do to increase your chances for getting the interview and finally getting hired. Do come to my seminar www.eniconsult.com and you will learn more.

Many do not realize that the chances of getting a job will reduces as the individual get unemployed longer. It is the law of nature. Newton law states that "Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it." (now you know I am an engineer by training".

Hence the faster the unemployed get up, create massive action and take charge to find a job, the chances will be much higher than someone who take a break, take it slowly and let nature take it course.

Without saying more, the resume (or CV) and the application letter will hence be the most important document you ever written in your whole entire life. Not the proposal you give to your boss or customer. Not even the thesis you wrote to get your master or phD or MBA! But facturely how many people learn from the expert how to write a resume (cv) or application letter. There are many books avaiable too but be carefully because most of them are just theory. I will explain this more in my next posting.

Till then, work very hard to get emmployed! It should be a full time job with over time!

Career Expert, Greater Asia