What are your requirements for a new job

Make your dreams come true, first of all, think about what you are willing to offer employers. People who have a solid professional experience no difficulty in answering the question "What do you know?" Usually do not. But those who are looking for a job for the first time, are at a loss: "I do not know and do not know how. Nobody needs me". We assure you that you are wrong, so categorically yourself appreciating.

Tips for beginners

To begin, take a clean sheet of paper and try to remember everything - what is your education, for some subjects taught in school or college, you will have achieved the greatest success. Add to this list a variety of clubs and electives, you've visited, participation in conferences and competitions.

Do not rush immediately to admit that you do not have professional experience. Maybe you have helped someone in their own businesses, made urgent calculations, gained surround text. Or were on probation, worked part time during the holidays, do practical work.

Try to objectively evaluate your business and personalqualities. We should listen to what they say about you family and friends. Maybe you do not agree with their comments, but do not be misled by his employer, "the executive and accuracy", if you have them available.

We hope that such a comprehensive analysis of its features will allow you to gain confidence in themselves and determine where you'd better look for a job and what skills you lack.

Now you can formulate their requirements for future work.

A realistic approach

Standard applicants requests are as follows:

stability of the company. But the stability of the company and your official position stability - not the same thing. There are organizations where high turnover is part of the corporate culture. The average duration of their staff varies from two to six months. Besides, even the most stable companies undergoing periods of downsizing, disagreements between the founders, and so on. N.

The proximity of the future place of employment to their place of residence. Daily spending 3 hours on a trip by public transport in one direction for most workers is unrealistic. Yes, and the employer usually does not agree to such a compromise, "You'll be so tired that you can not work." However, an hour and a half on the road to and from work - this is normal for most residents of large cities.

Once I had to watch as graduate courses currency cashiers, having no experience, I gave up a very attractive offer: "I can not drive to work one and a half hours. Find me the same place closer to home. " Human Resource Specialist for a long time to explain that this is for her - a rare stroke of luck, because such working conditions and a salary young professionals do not offer. She left to his own opinion, and missed a good chance.

Strictly normalized working day. In some companies delay after working hours are not welcome. It is believed that you do not know how to plan and organize their time. However, in many organizations there is an other point of view. At work, as a rule, retained assistants (their time focused on the head), personnel officers (10-12 interviews per day, but also the paperwork!). Do recruiters and managers of training centers the working day at home, on the phone. With some of their clients can be contacted only late at night. If you find yourself in a company where there is no limitation of working hours, you have to either accept such conditions, either immediately refuse to work in this organization.

Career prospects. Your statement that you are planning professional development, worthy of respect. But sometimes it is not fully consistent with the objectives set by the employer. One day I was asked to find a secretary to the director of a commercial company. one among the standard professional requirements sounded unusual:. "Without career ambitions" "What's the matter?" - I asked. "Over the past year we have changed four secretaries. All of them were promoted and now works as a manager. We are tired and want to find someone who likes it is this work. "

Social benefits. High demands on the social package be justified only in the case when it comes to highly qualified specialists applying for the position of responsible officials. At the same time a little strange to hear a long list of social benefits, which are calculated in the process of those who are just starting their careers.

Good friendly staff. This may express specific wishes about the age of its members (youth) or composition (mixed). It remains to recall that when applying for a job in the first place consider the professional quality of the applicant. Of course, pay attention to the ability to work in a team, adapt to the team, non-conflict character, but "a good man" - is not a profession.

Competent, courteous, understanding all the chief. Head usually requires subordinates perform their assignments, often without explanation. Get used to yourself to find and correct their own mistakes, and then many problems will be significantly reduced. Note that the loyal and democratic leaders are usually rigid and authoritarian deputies and vice versa. This is the law of equilibrium in nature and management.

List of candidates to the requirements of future work does not end here, but try to keep them to a minimum and to work out a compromise solution to answer the case, "No, we can not promise you."

to prioritize

Again, take a clean sheet, fold it in half vertically. From left to write your requirements for future work in order of importance to you, and the right - the inconvenience that you are ready to move for the sake of their performance.

If you are serious about finding compromises, your list will be reduced to an acceptable minimum and gain clarity and harmony. Agree, it's nice to deal with organized person who is objectively true to themselves and their capabilities.

Effective e-mail correspondence

Well, if you have rich parents who become mandatory spending their offspring include daily lunch in the cafe, and if not? Or conscience does not allow to ask? The output in this case of one - to earn at least out of pocket expenses.

Distance education

For students who want to have their pocket money, people experienced in that case may be advised to go on a correspondence course. Like, in this case, the work will not interfere studies. Training takes place at a more convenient time, session, most often, are not a problem for employers. This is the best way out. However, the benefits of such education is quite doubtful. Do not forget that distance education does not protect against conscription, and employers are more willing to take the company to the holders of diplomas from the "fixed form". And so, after weighing all the "pros" and "cons", the bulk goes to work, continue to study during the day.

See also: Part-time - the basis of a student's life.

nightwork

The most popular among the students of the hospital are positions that do not require special skills, namely retailers, system administrators of computer clubs, petrol tankers, car washers. However, to sustain several consecutive shifts, constantly lack of sleep, pretty hard and the pay is not that high, and have a lot of work. Start missing pairs, underachievement, complete apathy to everything around him ... a long time on this kind of work the students do not stay and continue his search.

Underemployment

Many students looking for a job with flexible hours, for example, a promoter, a courier, a distributor or a social research interviewing advertisements, flyers. Here are just a prestige job data among the students do not use. First of all, because of the low wages but also because the work is not constant, that is, as soon as a certain company ceases its advertising campaign, we have to look for a new job. Basically this work is interesting for students I - II courses, and even then only in the warmer months.

the specialty work

The most favorable option income - work close to their future profession. It often happens that a company in which the student was an intern, and later takes him to his work. Thus, solved several problems: in the leadership do not need time off to study - they are interested in it, and teachers are sensitive to a pass, of course, if they do not become regular. And, most importantly, solving the problem of employment after graduation. Experience has great significance. Of course, until the payment would be lower than that of ordinary employees. That's just the luck with this kind of work is not for everyone, and the staff younger than the IV year student, to work hardly take it.

Where is the exit?

To answer this question, each student must independently. On the one hand, there is a lack of money, on the other hand, in the case of employment, there is a problem with a constant lack of free time. Will be able to live in such a rhythm - please. As an option: You can review the personal budget and cut back on spending a couple of articles, for example, a taxi ride home from a nightclub. It is possible to organize rallies and strikes with demands to increase the scholarship, but you can find a job paying 500 USD per month, and employment - 2 hours a day. If you find one - write, rejoice all the editors. Good luck!

I love my job!

For you to come in for an interview a young professional with a good education and manners, you decide that it is perfect for you to send him a letter with confirmation of acceptance for work, and he will respond to Internet slang, decorating letter emoticons and exclamation marks. And what to do with him now? Most employers will decide that it is better not to take.

Experts complain that this happens more and more often when communicating with the applicant by e-mail, SMS or via social networks. But this is a serious problem. Many graduates and students can lose their position due to the fact that employers consider them irresponsible and not serious. How can I take on the work of man, which communicates with the employer as an old friend, and quite unable to conduct business correspondence? This trend is, among others, can enhance the differences between the old and young generations of employees, it will be difficult to communicate with each other, and not have to talk about what kind of corporate culture.

Some young applicants admit that it is difficult to go to the official tone, but they believe that it is necessary to find a good job. Well, some do not even try to resist their habits: the new generation eventually take its toll, and the employer will have to live with it.

On the other hand, employers are to blame: it is not necessary to use mobile phones, ICQ, social networks and other popular means of communication among young people, and talk to the applicant in person or at least on the phone. Many companies, both Russian and foreign, before the interview with the candidate is asked to write his essay on "Why I want to work here." And then it is tested the ability of the applicant to express his thoughts competently and without slang.

interlocutor Office phone

Absolutely nothing could be followed after failure of telephone communication for an administrative assistant. You run the risk of being branded not only incompetent, but also get a lot of negative characteristics, such as "stervozy", "mymry" and stuff, stuff, stuff. As shown, the period of professional adaptation, it is the work of the telephone service and puts forward a number of serious problems.

The beginning of the day - this is the phone calls. Awakened consciousness awakened body. But not always with a voice wakes him. And on the other end can not see any of your elaborate toilet nor a perfect make-up, only the voice becomes a working tool. It was he brings. Listless, wishy-washy, panting, with a husky overtones - all this has you a disservice.

Make the morning before the start of the working day a little articulation exercises, it will give an emotional charge. Articulation exercises can be repeated during the day, of course, alone. Now, the following rules to be not only in the morning, but also during the entire working day, again, will double the result. Talking on the phone, keep your abdominal muscles and buttocks tightened, strain them and not "spread" in a comfortable office chair. Your voice will get support, not "leave the stomach." And at the end of the day you will not feel the pain of tension of the vocal cords, the voice will remain vigorous and sonorous. The main condition of success - training, constantly, daily, persistent.

"Speak, that I saw you"

So he instructed his disciples to the ancient orators. No less useful to follow this advice now.

So, the phone rings. Office - not the house. You can not do with faceless "Hello", "Yes ...". It is best to call the company, which make up most short version: "... The company listens. Hello! "However, even with this short sentence, remember that this is a presentation of your company and your professional self-presentation. Be sure to smile at the same time, it does not matter that you do not see. Phone will give all shades. Give your smile voice of kindness and willingness to communicate. Manage your voice, giving it different shades. Of course, genuine interest. Greeting "Hello" - is a wish of health, not on duty phrase. If the first part of the sentence, when you call a company, should sound clarity and vigor, the "hello" should be pronounced with a touch of softness and warmth.

"Until the voices of beauty - you might say, when a customer calls and" pours "on your poor head flow is not compliments." And here is the answer strengthen-ing. Before Beauty! Plus, patience, kindness and emotional endurance.

Leaders need to convey information about who called in his absence. On the question of how to spot whether your boss, set your counter-question: "Who asked him, introduce yourself, please!" And then you tell about the time of your boss, and if you are not sure of his discipline, offer to leave a phone number, that allows you to call back. You ask whether you can do something to help, with whom the client might still like to discuss the problem. In this case all the same courtesy, kindness, smartness.

The customer is always right. Is it always?

That the rights of the client, a well-known doctrine, but agree that in all situations. Typically, you apologize. Do not be afraid to apologize if you feel guilty. Firstly, it will disarm the customer, and secondly, will cause him respect. After all, can only confident and mature people to the apology. But in any case, even during the conflict when a client "unleashes" the flow of claims on the work of the company, or your colleagues, you must remain calm and confident.

How easy is it? Of course not. But you have to in this situation "explosion" to control aggressive talker, but he is not you. Learn to manage conversationalist. Understand for yourself that with all your devotion and love for the company, still did not criticize you personally. First you need to help the other person to reduce his inner tension.

So, the first rule. Give partner "let off steam". Listen to him, not rejecting "out of hand", using speech support, or on the other end of strenuous efforts, there will be concern, whether it is listening: yes ... it is clear; I'm listening ...; I understand you ...; so ... so ... of course, and so on. n.

Most people, when they cry or they are charged, too, shouting in response to, or are trying to give up, to keep silent, to extinguish the anger of another. Both of these positions are not effective.

Put yourself in the position of a teacher who knows his job better than the pupil, and thus it automatically raises your status, you have become the leading party in the conversation: after losing the small, win in the main.

During an angry monologue try to understand the essence of the claim, it is best to burn. Do not be afraid, even if the customer is wrong to agree with him: I understand you perfectly ...; in your place I would have been annoyed, outraged ...; You are certainly right ...

Seizing the moment, if the client is not given immediately, and ask him to give his name and patronymic, be sure to write them down, God forbid, louse, better ask again in this situation.

Use the personal appeal immediately, but some time later. Appeal to the name will help you move to the next stage of the conversation. Repeat yourself (if you have time to understand it), or ask your partner to repeat the main claim, but tell me (do not forget about the tone of sincere sympathy) that have to be taken into account only the facts and objective evidence.

Ask formulate the desired end result, mutually acceptable solutions. Appropriate and reference to the positive qualities of life:.. "You, as a knowledgeable expert ... as an honorable man ... as a clever man," etc. If you solve all possible, assign the time and meeting, and it is best to take a position and to call back the most when you are in it will be ready by yourself or your colleagues.

The most favorable impression on people produces a response to the criticism, which contains specific commitments about what will be done to improve matters, with specific deadlines and real opportunities.

Do not ruin relations

Regardless of the outcome, you have to maintain its goodwill to the end, to finish the conversation in a positive way. Expressed his respect voice and words, do not change the location of the customer or partner will express regret for the difficulties encountered (but not indifferent tone).

Of course, the winner you will not always, the conversation can end and so that the other person sends you have guessed where. The main thing - do not dwell on failure, and you have no right to insult, you have a right to constructive behavior. With time and experience generated by skill, and you will flexibly manage their partner in communication, you will certainly ocharuete his interlocutors on the phone and give them a great opportunity to show you their respect.

How to make the right decisions, and what it means to have the information?

And similar requirement applies not only to managers, to make serious decisions, but also to applicants applying for the starting position - the trainees (from the HR department to the commercial department).

What kind of quality of what they need and how to get it - these three issues, covering the issue of effective thinking, I have devoted this article.

The answer to the second question - What does the ability to work with information? - on the surface, although at first glance may seem that it is not. Often people believe that awareness (as a simple knowledge of the facts) is a sufficient condition for successful activity, whereas the truly valuable information hidden behind the facts face, and to find it, you have to be proficient in such "techniques" of thinking as analysis, synthesis, systematization and creativity.

Even working at launch sites, employee constantly have to make decisions that affect it, how successful will it work in the future. For example, among the functions of the trainee of department on work with the personnel - regularly reviewing resumes received by e-mail, as well as finding the right resume on the Internet. The number of resumes that arrive daily view and evaluate, can reach several tens or even hundreds. Experienced recruiters spend on each resume an average of 10 seconds - this time enough for you to make a decision: whether to conduct an interview with the candidate. It is clear that for such work the employee must be the ability to rapidly analyze information.

In the selection for the vacant position, to assess the cognitive abilities of candidates, often used this form of group work as a case study. Often, the situation needs to be addressed is described on pages 30-50, and more so in a limited time (usually in the case is given about an hour), willy-nilly, to cut the text obviously irrelevant information, to identify priority - one that really belongs to the conditions of the problem .

The ability to work competently with the details - very bright light the ability to think analytically. If you're telling the HR manager about your experience and setting out the decision of the case, feel that go into specifics, stop and ask the question: "How important is this information right now?".

Based on the analysis carried out classification, in other words - the ordering of perceived information and their own experience. For example, any employee involved in the sale of goods or services of the firm, it is desirable to have at least a rough classification of the possible types of customers, in time to know with whom talks should continue or begin to work, and to whom - it is better not to waste time.

To demonstrate an example of "bad" customer, you can describe the following situation from the practice of the employment agency. The agency handles the company that wants to find a specialist in Lotus system. At a meeting with a representative of the recruiter asks in detail about whether engaged in agency jobs associated with the Lotus, for some companies, how successful have been searching for, this system is used in some companies. The client waives any form of payment. This behavior is typical "marketing", the true purpose of which is to clarify the situation on the market in order to successfully sell your product (in this case - Lotus). He does not need new employees, it is under the pretext of recruitment agency uses as a source of information.

Analysis and ordering his own experience will save you from many mistakes in the future.

In addition to the analytical skills employers expect from the young specialist manifestations of systemic thinking. What is the system? This kind of integrity, part of which, interacting with each other define its properties. And the properties of the system can not be reduced to the properties of the individual parts. Each system as an element included in other, larger system. Market - the same system, which as its elements include various sectors or segments (ferrous metallurgy, oil and gas, IT, FMCG, insurance and so on). At the same time, each segment is a system whose elements are companies operating in the industry. Each of them has their own goals, values, and its role in this system, each part performs its function. Knowledge of the situation in its market, and the ability to properly assess the events, taking place in the company in the context of this situation and its changes - the most important competence, without which it is impossible to become a professional manager. Therefore the question of a recruiter or HR manager - "Tell me how you see the situation in the industry, country and so on" - is aimed at identifying the skills of the candidate to think big, to link different facts in a single picture. And erudition, knowledge of the facts, this is not so important, as a demonstration of the ability to synthesize and organize information. to link different facts in a single picture. And erudition, knowledge of the facts, this is not so important, as a demonstration of the ability to synthesize and organize information. to link different facts in a single picture. And erudition, knowledge of the facts, this is not so important, as a demonstration of the ability to synthesize and organize information.

Creativity, the ability to think outside the box - yet another competence are the key to future success. Contrary to popular belief that the ability to create either laid in a person from birth or not, psychologists have long proven that creative potential lies in almost every one of us, and we must be able to reveal it. There are special training sessions on the development of creative thinking, are very popular and really help people open to new opportunities. In the words of E. De Bono, the famous psychologist who developed a theory of lateral (non-standard, creative) thinking, "if IQ compared with the" horsepower "of the car, thinking it is equivalent to the art of driving." Written quotations meant by 'thinking' is the ability to think outside the box. What is lateral thinking? First of all - the ability to see the opportunities that are not apparent at the moment, the ability to go beyond the most familiar solutions and reasoning given channel.

Here is an example. Draw on a sheet of squared paper, divide it into 4 equal parts, and then remove (delete or shade) its one-quarter. A figure which is obtained by ( "corner") share another 4 parts, so that they were all the same. The correct solution in this case will be a division into four corner - the same as the original figure. Typically, the first all trying to solve this problem in a standard way, that is to divide the resulting figure to the right shape shapes (rectangles). When these attempts fail, someone gives up, and someone finds an alternative way to solve. This is the ability to think outside the box. How to demonstrate creative thinking in an interview or assessmente? In many companies, the selection of candidates using tasks aimed at identifying candidates ability to think creatively. For example, in one of the oil companies, the candidates were asked to collect from an improvised material (paper, pencils, glue, cardboard and so on) any moving model. Also, you can not even offer practical exercises, and simply ask to tell the real-life situation in which you have expressed yourself creatively.

I'll tell you a little about the basic techniques that help to work and information and solve the problem in front of you more effectively.

There are several strategies for the systematization of textual material. These include such techniques as the alignment of the linear sequence of events, the construction of hierarchies, classifications, networks, showing different kinds of relationships between concepts, designing block diagrams for the purpose of clearly describe the situation described in the text (what action should be taken in relation to the situation which actions are carried out, what are the conditions of the situation), and so on.

Synectics - one of the techniques that can help find the right solution in various situations. This method has more to do with the development of creative thinking. Synectics - conscious search for analogies in science, artistic creation and other areas with a view to finding solutions to specific problems. There are different types of analogies:

 Direct analogy is invited to review the methods used in other areas (for example, science and technology).

 Personal analogy, offering to get used to the image of the object, to feel his condition and on the basis of their own experiences to find and offer the most optimal solution.

 Symbolic analogy - finding a brief description of the problem of symbolic or object, usually a combination of an adjective and a noun, which characterizes the shape of the object substance paradox.

 Fantastic analogy - the search for solutions in science fiction, as well as the statement of objectives in the form of fairy tales, myths, legends.