Looking for a Job This December by Lloyd Luna

This column is a response to my letter senders who have just taken local board for nurses. I didn’t have the luxury of space to publish your letters but here are some important points for you.

This is what I call the season of searching-for job and for self. Many of our graduates, and I’m sure there are a lot of them, still have the mixed emotion. Last time, I’ve touched this “mixed emotions” and I bet the hangover is still there. Let me give you my take.

The number in 2005 tells us that only 1 out of 10 graduates is employed. You must be so lucky if you’re that “one” in ten. Unless you beat the other 199 applicants competing for the same position that you want, you won’t get the job. Again, you must be very good is you’ll be able to beat those 199. Eight out of ten are actually underemployed. Please be reminded that your diploma, or medal, or awards, or citations, doesn’t always amount to a job that’s relevant to what you’ve taken.

With these figures at hand, many will surely be afraid of their future. When I was in college, I was already got to know about all these, I became so afraid that I had to really prepare myself.

Unfortunately, many of these job-seekers this time were not able to prepare for this challenge. Maybe the school failed to remind, or worse tell them about this, or the government, or their families. But at the end of the day, we are accountable, and non one else.

On getting the job

Many have asked me how to know that that is the right job for them. I usually pause and ask myself why people need to ask that. Can’t they figure out that this is or this is not the right job for them?

Well, I found an interesting thought on this. And later on I realized that all of them asked the question before they get the job. So my question is how do we know it if we don’t try it at first?

But the safest answer that I give goes like if what you do, or you’re doing, is the one that you love doing, then you’ve got the right job. And I’d add that you’re successful on that.

The key

The key to a happy career life doesn’t lie outside our selves. Many of us look for happiness, and some say fulfillment, outside. Unfortunately, it can’t be find there. And so the key if you want to have a good job, a job that fits you, is to know your strengths, your passion, and your goals. All of these combined with the right philosophies, attitude and faith, make up the key to a successful career life.

Is There a Job Waiting for You?

Well, I’m lucky enough to somehow do away with this question. And thank God I’ve skipped it! But this is a tough question, I’m sure. And rarely could you find the answer.

During my college days, I usually do stuffs that were alien to my classmates. And they will always make jokes on what I was doing-focusing on student publication and other co-curricular activities instead of dwelling on our engineering subjects.

But now, as I go on with my own business, which I started in 2005, one year after my schooling, it came to me that that jobs of my engineering batch mates, and they are licensed now, include a call center job, sales, and so on. It is alien to me now. While I don’t say landing a call center job is not good, I’m saying that there could have been a better job for you if you only had the time to sit down and plan.

The complete answer to this question, or at least some ideas to figure out the answer can be found on my first book titled Is There A Job Waiting for You? Nine weapons you need to make jobs look for you. The website is www.isthereajobwaitigforyou.com

Value your dreams,

BIG

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