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Job Search Tip #1 - Understanding The Competitive Environment

"Individuals and organizations who know 'why' will always be ahead of those who merely know 'how'". --- Sola Olubode

When searching for a job, you need to understand these fundamental truths:

1. There is a job for everyone.

2. Finding the job that fits is usually the major challenge for most people. Winners do not not look for the right job; they make the job they have found the right one(Sola O., 2006).

3. Finding a job is job in itself because it involves you "selling yourself" to your prospective employer(Sola O., 2006).

4. Getting a job starts with an interview and hence you must set yourself to look for an interview and not a job(Sola O., 2006).

5. Deciding on your career should be a crucial step in getting a job on time. You need to decide what a suitable job is after a careful analysis of your own self. For example, if you don't know where you want to be in the next 5 years, why would anybody want to hire you? 
A careful analysis of yourself will include giving honest thought to your dreams, goals, aspirations, likes and dislikes, training and experience, personality type etc(Sola O., 2006).

Quotes are culled from the Book "Winning at Job Search and Your Career" by Sola Olubode

To be continued...

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