Career and Jobs Tips

Once you get into the interview you need to ensure that you are able to combat your nerves and try not to appear too nervous as you will make the interview a lot harder. The interviewer will start making their own ideas of you as soon as you enter and if you enter with lots of nerves, you will be fighting against the interviewers nervous impression of you during the rest of the interview. Of course an interviewer would expect a little amount of nerves but being able to control them is what they are looking for.
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The conventional wisdom is that the best time to look for a job is when you already have a job, as you feel less pressure and are in a better negotiating position. This is a search by choice, as opposed to the more forced search.
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As the national economy plummeted downward recently, so did the seniors employment figures. It’s only natural that fear swept the land as the media hammered on the widening theme that millions of people were being stripped of their livelihoods. Senior citizens hunkered down and made every attempt to keep a low profile and protect what already belonged to them.
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According the a report released recently by the World Bank, unemployment rate in Nigeria is about 15 per cent while in the United States, the rate has surged to its highest in the last 16 years with more than 2.5 million job losses in 2008 – a situation that has not been witnessed since the end of the second world war in 1945. The phenomenon of job loss in Nigeria heightens an already awful situation which had seen many formerly enterprising industries like textile, rubber and auto closing down in incredible large numbers. By this very fact, job losses are now a common feature among the citizenry.
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Before an employment opportunity presents itself to you, it would be advisable that you have a list of your particular strengths, weaknesses, your qualities and your motivators. So where do you start putting this list together?
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The following are job techniques used by hiring managers.

One-On-One Interview

In a one-on-one interview, it should be assumed that you already have the competencies and education needed for the job. The hiring manager wants to find out if you will fit in with the organization, and how your competencies will complement the rest of the division. Your goal in this type of interview is to create a bond with the hiring manager and show them that your abilities will benefit the organization.
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Why it is so valuable?

As of October 15, 2009, LinkedIn hit a new milestone with over 50 million professionals now a part of this ever-growing database (as reported by the CEO of the company). This large number should get your attention. 80% of employers and recruiters use this database to prospect for new candidates because it is perhaps the easiest and most cost-effective tool employers and recruiters have ever had available to them. There is a strong chance that your next employer, recruiter, client, or business partner is already on LinkedIn. So all you have to do is leverage LinkedIn to begin that relationship.
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Same way I feel that the job seeker should think like a marketing guy when he appears for the interview. He must know the art of selling himself to the company. A candidate must know how to sell his skills. But most of the time, candidate appears for the interview without proper preparation which results in bad impression along with the rejection of his candidature.
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Many companies are restructuring budgets, relooking at staff effectiveness, and even trimming staff. If you have experienced pain in your employment or business; or if you are looking for a new job I can assist with a specific industry. My most exciting career for over thirty years has been in the Consumer Electronics Industry. This is a fun industry to be in and a sales position either in retail on a store floor or in fact a representative job for a distributor is a great place to start. You could even consider starting your own business in the industry if you have the passion and drive like I did.
So you have some choices, now where can you head?
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