How to Get a Job in the corporate world.
Getting Started
Creative Strategy and the lack of it has contributed to what we now understand as unemployment. In the corporate world, finding a job is often not about the size of your C.V but what you can offer. There is this popular notion that to get a job you must have all kinds of connections, to begin with. But this is not always the case. This has made many young people reluctant to go in search of jobs.
Societies have grown beyond the point where people should get stuck in the crowd because they do not have a job. There are constant shouts of ‘no jobs’. Most people blame the government. Some blame other people, who they argue should help them get jobs. And then there are extreme cases of superstition and outrageous beliefs. Dwelling on the above will certainly not give you a job.
You need to make a conscious effort to evaluate your strategies. Think of different ways to apply yourself. You can go a step further by putting yourself in the position of the company, organization or establishment where your interest lies and be honest. Would you employ someone by simply looking at what is contained in a bulky C.V? Or what he/she can actually demonstrate.
"The best way to get into the corporate industry is to get familiar with related trends. Find out everything you need to know; how they work and what they are interested in, with a SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities and traits) analysis. This sort of information allows you to enter the corporate world in style."
Now note the following tips:
Arm Yourself
A SWOT analysis gives you the power to decide how you want to make your contribution to the corporate industry. To solidify your position, however, draw up a proposal on any key aspect of the particular corporate body you chose. Your document may outline ways to improve, a new concept for a product or service, an expansion prospect, etc. Any aspect you choose must be backed by solid and verifiable facts, not theories.
Present Your Findings
With your findings, go to the Corporate Head, and confidently present your findings. In ideal situations, no corporation will turn you away after going through what you have. To do so is to reject a golden opportunity or expose their corporate butt to competitors. Pardon my pun. Because they know that you can do either of the following; go to a competitor with the information you have or sell the information to the highest bidder. Either way, you will not loose.
Negotiating On Your Terms
The first two tips will retain the attention of a company, organisation, firm or office. The next step is to follow through and decide how to get rewarded but, do not get greedy if the objective is to work for the long term. Reach an acceptable compromise that will be of mutual benefit to you and that corporation.
Establish Trust
As soon as you get accepted, your first call is to show them where your loyalties lie. Resist the temptation to play them because it would be risking a sack, a lawsuit, eventual bankruptcy or worse. A wounded establishment will do more than the proverbial wounded Lion. Understand that no one would be any good as a corporate leaper or get cast out by the corporate universe.
Settle Down To Honest Work
You owe it to yourself and your office to concentrate on all associated responsibilities with unrelenting purpose. Your attitude, conduct, dealings and philosophy must reflect a genuine cause. If and when your contract expires or the need to leave arises, they will be reluctant to let you go. The point to dwell on is that you would have established a partnership that will forever benefit you.
These five tips are useless if you do not make the effort or take the necessary steps to be creative or adopt research into your life’s goal. You can walk the dusty streets and town roads from dawn to dusk every other day and still be without a job. The job you seek will always be a few steps away from you. If you want to wait for the perfect opportunity, I can guarantee you that it will never come.
Most, if not all, job seekers have written more applications than they care to count, gone for countless interviews and taken aptitude tests only to go back home and wait forever for that confirmation via a call or message that says you are hired.
If you have not had enough of job-search related disappointments, you have made your choice, one that may probably drive you out of your mind in the shortest possible time. But if as an alternative, you decide to take this article seriously, then congratulations. You have graduated into the corporate arena and your name would most likely be taken off the labour market’s register.
