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12 Dec 09 Job Search – Are You Qualified Enough to Get a Job

Are you? This is the question you should ask yourself every morning you get off your bed. The answer to this question will get you a job. How to find if you are qualified or not? The only way to do so is to ask this question and test yourself. You need to do an honest assessment of your skills, and honestly review how well it is suited for the job you are searching. You should try to find answers to the following questions:

  • What was the last degree, diploma, or certificate course you completed?
  • Which year?
  • What seminars, video course, or webinars do you attend and how frequently?
  • Which blog, website, forums, magazines or books do you read in a month and how many?
  • What has changed in your industry in the last year, or the last two years?
  • Have you tried to update yourself by learning new advancement?
  • How much time or money have devoted on this?
  • Will you get a job, if you were fresher? Analyze this on the basis of skills you have.

This is not an exam where you need to excel by hook or by crook. This is a real life test which you can only pass if you are honest with yourself. These are the basic questions you need to ask. The honest assessment of your skills will tell you what you need to learn in order to be employable again. If you do not update your skills, you will be obsolete before late. Keep on inventing, reinventing and upgrading yourself, and you will always be in demand.

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23 Nov 09 You are An Expert, Own Your Domain Part – II

In the first part of you are an expert, own your domain, I talked about the internal changes you need to bring in yourself to instantly sound and feel like an expert in your domain. In this issue of the mini-series, I will talk about how to upgrade you skills and keep reinventing yourself in order to keep your position as an expert in your chosen niche secure.

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An expert is a person who knows most of the relevant detail about his domain (if not all), and you can only hope to know all if the information is presented to you in a platter. Thankfully, it is served that way. All you need to provide the address (e-mail ID) where you want it to be delivered. Keep yourself apprised of recent findings, thoughts, ideas, development, and research, etc., in your niche.

Set Google Alert

Getting news by the hour is too late. We are the generation of “NOW”, and we should get it everything here and now. Be it information about the recent development (by recent I meant development in last 10 or 20 minutes), or the latest breaking news (the news that broke 30 or 60 seconds ago). You can get this by setting an alert for your niche. Setting up Google Alert will keep you on top of the news in your niche. This is what an expert is supposed to do: be on top of all the development in the industry.

Develop your skills

A true expert is a person who keeps on investing resources in continuous learning. Learning should never stop, if you intend to become an expert. Take a certificate course that educates advance students like you in your chosen field. Attend seminars, be a part of industry gatherings, read books, attend webinars, etc. to upgrade your skill.

Always remember, the moment you stop growing you stop being seen as an expert.

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22 Nov 09 You are An Expert, Own Your Domain Part – I

Believe it or not, you are an expert.

Expert of what?

That you have to find out. Regardless of what others say, I am pretty much confident that you are an expert. Now the issue at hand is to make you realize that you are an expert. I am writing this series to help you realize your true potential. The first part will talk about the changes one need to bring in oneself in order to become an expert everyone looks at in your chosen niche.

Accept it, flaunt it

Many people, despite knowing a great deal about certain topic, abstain from calling themselves an expert.

Why?

Because they are afraid of being an expert. They think being an expert is something that is beyond their reach, and they need to know more about the topic before they can be expert. Shed this no-expert syndrome with adding ABC specialist, or XYZ expert after you name. You do not need only to be an expert, you need to flaunt your expertise as well. You need to realize that you are an expert, and you need to tell others as well.

Get on top of the tallest building in your town, take very, very deep breath, hold it for 3-4 seconds, and expel all the air in your lung while shouting “I AM AN EXPERT”. I know this is a little exaggeration, but it will work. Have you taken it seriously?

Show credentials

Have you done some certificate course or completed a diploma or degree in fields related to your work? Any specialized certificate or any other course? Have you won some award or something? If your answer is yes to any or all of these then you all ready know more than others does. Start flaunting your credentials. Put it on your website and blog. Mention the most trust-worthy certificate in your signature line like, Mr. your name, XYZ certified expert.

Promote

Out of sight is out of mind, and it is out of market as well. Do not think that people will come knocking at your door because you are an expert. For the starter, no one knows that you are an expert of something. So, make them realize your true worth by writing a succinct and power-packed bio about yourself and post it on your website, blog, leaflet, and wherever you can. This is not those ugly self-glorifying behavior, simply put, it is a promotion that everyone does.

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