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experience, your skills and abilities.
Give him this résumé.
Emphasize experience that shows you
are qualified for the kind of position
you are applying for.
Take plenty of time to write your
résumé. Seek advice from those quali–
fied to give it. Few people reaJize that
no job-hunting tool is more useful than
a good résumé, yet most people skip ít
or do it poody.
Your résumé must be very neat in
appearance, but do not make it elabo–
rate or expensive-looking. In a few
instances you may want to have a dupli–
cator run off quaJity copies to mail
to key personnel of many different
companies.
Sell Yourself
When you go for an interview, don't
be
afraid to tell the personnel director
you have investigated the company - if
you have - and you know the company
is financially sound. He will be pleased
to hear it. Employers are impressed by
the rare individual who is able to show
such initiative, enthusiasm, and real
zeal. They
NEED
this type of individual.
Also be able to honestly tell him you
want to work for this company because
you have talked to the employees and
have found that they are happy on their
jobs.
Be dynamic ! Be forceful! Youc
personality -
your interest in the
company, your resourcefulness, your
friendliness - may be the deciding fac–
tors
in
landing you the job.
Look your interviewer straight in the
eye. Tell him in a straightforward mao–
ner that you have prepared for this type
of work. Tell him you believe in doing
as much as possible for him and the
company, that you will go "all out" in
making a success on this job! Of course,
be sure you can fulfill these promises.
Tell your employer how you can help
him, not how he can help you. Remem–
ber the company is buying your services,
your experience and your abilities. An
employer wants to hire you only if you
can make him money. Sell him your
abi!ity to make him money. Prove to
your prospective employer your services
will be profitable to him!
Be factual! Get to the point and say
clearly and concisely what sort of abili-
The
PLAIN TRUTH
ties you have to offer and what your
experience is. Do not reel off endless
details about jobs you held years ago.
Employers also look for loyal, cooper–
ative employees who do not com–
plain and criticize their last employers.
Employers want well-adjusted, happy
people
who got along we/l as a team
with theír last employers
and fellow
workers. They want someone who is
wi lling to work, and does as he is told.
But be careful. Most interviewers will
turn clown any job applicants who
launch into a philosophical "spiel"
about their "eagecoess," their "willing–
ness to work," "character," and "ambi–
tion." You need to be
sincere, positi·ve,
and
honest!
Also, an interviewer almost always
tucos clown any job appücant wbo dis–
cusses his personal difficulties. They are
hiring money-making producers, not
problems.
Be Persistent
Make job hunting a full-time job.
Begin looking for a job early in the
mocoing. Don't quit until dosing time.
You will work for your employer 40
nours a week. Why not work at least
that much for yourself?
Job researchers insist the job hunter
should be able to make up to one appli–
cation an hour for non-executive jobs.
That's nearly forty a week. They state
that jobs on the executive leve! require
much longer interviews.
Set a goal of a certain number of
applications a day until you laud your
job.
Cal! up and ask to speak with the
directors of the various company divi–
sions, the lab directors, or the shop
foreman. (Remember key personnel are
listed in the Chamber of Commerce
Directory of Bttsiness and Jndustry.)
If
you have good qualifications, the lab
director may hire you even if there is
no opening at the moment. He must
look ahead to future needs. Show initia–
tive, drive. Put fortb this effort. Pros–
pective employers are impressed by
initiative.
Most job seekers stop with the inter–
view, when many a job could be secured
by a follow-through.
Keep going back. Sorne employers
make it a policy to hire a man only
August-September 1970
after his second or third visit. They want
a man who is persistent.
Sometimes a thank-you note to the
interviewer for the time he gave you, or
a telephone caJl
in
a week or so may
remind your prospective employer what
a persistent man you are and may win
the job for you.
Look Ahead
Once you get the job, keep alert to
what's going on in your organization.
Know bow you are doíng and what
your boss thinks of you. You should
usually know how long your job is
goíng to last.
If
you see that the end of your present
job
ÍS
in sight,
IMMEDIATELY
begin lay–
ing the groundwork to find another job.
In
today's tight labor market, don't
ever quit your job unless you already
have somewhere else to go. It's far
easier to find another job while you still
have one than when you don't. But be
careful not to "shop around" by chang–
ing jobs too often. It hurts your
ernployment record. (A two-year stay
on a job is usually considered minimal.)
Don't ever tuco an offer clown flat
because it doesn't meet your every
requirement. Be willing if necessary to
accept a position that requires traveling,
or be willing to take company training
for a new job.
If
you are in a small town where
there aren't any jobs available, then you
must be willing to go to a larger
city
where there are jobs. You may have no
other choice.
The unskilled often find it diffi cult to
find jobs. Remember you are never too
young or too old to leaco a trade. You
may find it advantageous to enroll in a
course at a trade school or in an adult
education program,.
In the present tight job market, many
skilled professiooal people are out of
work.
If
you are in this quaodary, be
willing to seek temporary employment
opporttmities lower than your capabili–
ties until your field opens up again.
There are definite laws of success in
achieving wbatever you undertake. We
offer a
free
booklet caJled the
Seven
Laws of Sttccess.
lt
can help you find
and put into practice the principies nec–
essary to find and keep a good job.
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