Feared about the lack of job experience?
Dec 13, 2006
Now you are out of college and chances are that you don't have the required job experience to take on to the job market. Don't worry nobody has it. How can you expect a freshly college graduate to have 2-3 years of job experience? Are you kidding? Ahh, give me a break! Now every newspaper ad you read asks about 2-3 years of work experience and now that has a reason of its own. Seriously speaking, this is a stratagem that most companies play these days to just retain those who have real hard working appetite. Most companies are looking for the "can-do" attitude and you should say this in the interview and tell them that you are a hard worker and would do your best to accomplish the task offered. If companies sticked to this so called requirements, half the fresh college graduates would never get the interview call!
Although, you might not have the job-relevant experience, you might still have what it takes to get the job done. So go ahead and put some work experience on your resume even if you have worked at a fast-food restaurant. Write about how you multi-tasked yourself to achieve blah blah task. Talk about your leadership skills if you were at any managing position or as a team lead etc. Also write about the projects you took at college and write that you can work in teams etc. Just brainstorm yourself and you can come up with a list of so much qualities that your employer will like and invite you for the initial interview.
Include everything you can on your resume that will qualify you to get your “foot in the door” of the interview room.
Many a times after the initial interview, the companies might send you a well written rejection letter saying that " We liked your skills very much but we are interested in pursuing more experienced candidates right now". Don't get dishearten and leave the rat race. Follow up and let them know that are something the company would miss if they didn't hire you!
Posted byJon at 12:18 PM 0 comments
Are you ready to go over it again?
Many times the decisions made by people, let be even multi billion companies don't end up in success. Meaning, they don't go well with what the time demands and hence are in-effective not that they were wrong in first place but just that they were not made with respect to the time. Some decisions can be well good for one particular time period and some for other time period. Moreover, there is no decision that can survive the time line of lifetime. Same thing holds true for one's decision over selecting a particular major. People when selecting a particular major tend to have priorities while doing so. Some would just jump to a major based on their hobbies and some would base their major selection decision based on factors like, "would i be able to do it or not?", "what are the challenges?", "what is the level of competition?","what is the prospective of this xyz major in the job market right now and future?" etc.
No matter what your decision factors are, irrespective of what you do to get going to a major you should have that gut-twists of "hullabaloo" when you think of job market perspective every time. Applying your knowledge that you have gained through all years of schooling since childhood is often exciting, ain't it?
So, now is the time to go over your decision again and think if what you did is right or not. Because now is the right time to do what is right for you in long run. There is no other time in your life where you realize that you owe it to yourself to make a man out of you than it is now! Right here right now is the time where you can revert back if you find yourself not comfortable with the major you chose and register for classes the next semester in the major of your comfort. But, At anytime don't be shameful or feel shy about your decision making ability because from what i have experienced is that there is nothing wrong with the decision but only that it lacked enough information and timeliness to get it go.
Posted byJon at 11:30 AM 0 comments
So, Here you Are!
So, Now you have earned yourself a so called "Diploma" after putting a lot of hard work, spending hours and hours in that library discussing through those tiresome projects all night! Surely, its a damn hard work although you will always miss those college days all your life. You are about to embark on a journey that will be most thrilling adventure of your life and also one of the greatest one ever.
You wonder if your big break will come alive and put you into the limelight of success, fame and happiness?
Remember, You are unique with your special talents and unique personality, and you have something called as mind which is been said of having miraculous powers that you will achieve whatever you put your mind to focus on. Don't worry if you have the necessary skills or not to take upon that dream job of yours.For a simple reason being that you hold a diploma and have graduated, shouts out the fact that you have finished the required course curriculum related to your major of study and that more than qualifies you to present yourself to the job market for getting offered a job. Nonetheless,You have the required education required to perform the job if not experience which we will talk about later, now it is the moment to apply that knowledge to the practical side of the job equation… the reality of the workplace!
No matter if you slept throughout your classes or you the whizkid always answering the questions posed by the instructor, you still earned it successfully! So don't worry if you would be able to perform the job duties or not, just get rid of that fear and get yourself the label of "Job Seeker" and apply for jobs and be ready to face the interviews!
Posted byJon at 11:01 AM 0 comments
