How to get a Job - How to make a Successful career - Tech Lectures

Employers often look for skills that go beyond one’s qualifications and experience.

Education and experience may make one eligible to apply for a job. And to be successful in most roles, one will need skills that are likely to develop over time. Some will be specific to the job, but the so-called ‘soft skills’ that can be used in any job or employment sectors are the ones which are the most sought after. These soft skills are ‘Employability skills’: they are what makes one employable.

As we see generally, employers are willing to teach and train someone the job-specific skills (Hard Skills) required, such as how to operate particular pieces of machinery, or use particular computer packages that are very specific to role or company. However, they usually want to see that their employee already have the other ‘soft skills’ before hiring, because they are not that much easy/smooth to teach.

Why it's the need of the hour today?

As all of us know that, for many people today, career is not a mere option. Most of the people hold their jobs with various types of employers and keep moving across different employment sectors through their working life. And quite a few play the role of an employee and an entrepreneur. That’s dual work life style. So it’s a need of the hour to retain their job, or get the best appraisal for promotion, explore different skill sets for playing the role of a dual work status.

We all therefore have to be compelled to be flexible in our working patterns and be prepared to alter job and/or job sectors if we believe that there are better opportunities elsewhere.

For this we need to understand that we have a set of transferable skills which is nothing but employ-ability skills. Though these are not specific skill set for one particular career path, but in general very handy and useful in employment sectors.

The basic requirements of Employability skills. 

The first and foremost skill which is a requirement in all fields of our role is the Communication & Inter/Intra Personal Skills. Apart from this, the following are the most basic requirements as employability skills either to get a job or retain the job or to get elevated in the job position.

1. Working Well with Other People
The skills required to work well with other people are known as Interpersonal/Intrapersonal Skills
Good interpersonal/intrapersonal skills allow you to participate effectively as a member of a team, satisfy customers’ and clients’ expectations, negotiate, make decisions and solve problems with others, and generally work effectively with other employees. Well-honed interpersonal skills allow us to empathize and build rapport with colleagues and clients, leading to a more robust and less stressful working environment.

2. Goal Setting : Yes one should have a specific goal set to improve their professional & personal life style. These two life styles are to be balanced like the railway bogies on the railway tracks. The engine that pulls it forward or hind ward is the spiritual life style. To achieve goal if one works just on SMART technique is not enough. One also needs to inculcate the 5Ds.


DESIRE, DREAM, DISCIPLINE, DEDICATION AND DEVOTION.

Desire: the urge to get
Dream: the vision and assertiveness
Dedication: the amount of concentration required
Devotion: the involvement and
Discipline: the most sought after one to check and take corrective measures about the other 4 Ds.

To get into these 5 D's one should give up two things:
1. Laziness
2 Procrastination

And Build in two most powerful things by questioning oneself:
1. How 

2. Why.

3. Communication Skills. (All four LSRW) not going in detail as most of us being trainers know about it and its components.

4. Emotional Intelligence : The ability to recognise, understand and manage one’s own and others’ emotions, and to use them positively to achieve the desired outcome.

5. Team Work : The ability to work with others in groups and teams, both formal and informal. Not everyone is needed to work in a close-knit team, despite the language barrier in many organizations. But the ability to function well in a group or team is a vital skill in most of the jobs.

6. Negotiation, persuasion and influencing skills : These skills all relate to finding mutually agreeable solutions to problems or situations, either by persuading others that your solution is best or finding better alternative by sharing ideas. A good GD and Debating skills.

7. Conflict Resolution & Meditation : The skills required to resolve disagreements in a positive and assertive manner.

8. Problem Solving and Decision Making Skills : The skills needed to work effectively with others to identify, define and solve problems, including making decisions about the best course of action.

9. Being Reliable and Dependable: This means walk the talk. However, it also means being able to look around and see what needs doing and then do it. Sounds quite simple, but not. It needs more personal skills than the interpersonal skills. It means being organized and managing time. (Time Management).

 Being reliable means being trustworthy and conscientious. For example leaving the work early quit often when thing still need doing. Trustworthy and conscientious both means self-regulations or self-management.

 People who are self-regulated and reliable take responsibility for his or her own actions and make sure that they live up to their values. They keep track of deadlines and deliver to them without having to be chased up.

10. A willingness to learn: This means being open to new ideas and experiences, and always looking to improve ones skills and knowledge.

 Change is common in most of the work places, and the most valuable employees are those who embrace personal change and recognises more opportunities than threats.