How To Advance Your Career By Selling Yourself

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How To Progress Your Career By Selling Yourself Many people find it very hard to sell themselves as a product or a commodity and that is because of modesty and because they do not perceive themselves as products and commodities. We are people, we are individuals, are we not? The answer to that question is not as simple as it ought to be. On the human level, yes, of course we are all people and we are all nice people with feelings, emotions and worries. However, when you are an employer, you have jobs to accomplish and deadlines to meet and although it is a real shame that the son of employee number 456789 has fractured his arm and he needs time off, it is a nuisance to sending that order out on time. Depending how vital the job is of employee 456789 of course and how large the workforce is. In a shop, it could be a disaster, in a factory, it hardly matters. It is natural, no matter what business managers and owners have learned to say, it is a nuisance if items do not go smoothly in business. It is the job of a business manager to flatten out these bumps. Once you start to see the problems of your employer or even interviewer, who represents the employer, you can start to see methods of how to advance your career by selling yourself. Therefore, the employee (or business owner who wants to sell) has two things to do to begin with. First, find out what the employer needs and second, find out what you have to offer. You may think that you already know the solutions and perhaps you do, but let's go through them anyway. An employer wants you, as an employee to make his life easier. You can accomplish this by being punctual and reliable. The employer already has a decent idea of what you are able to do by looking at your CV. What the employer does not know is whether you are trustworthy and reliable. Now it comes down to you. You could corroborate your CV, but the employer has almost certainly already done that anyway. So, your job is to prove that you know something about the firm, that you are interested in, what it wants to accomplish and that you will pull out all the stops to help achieve that. If you are not able to state that, maybe you are applying for the wrong job. Enthusiasm counts for a lot. Nowadays there are frequently 20-30 applicants going for every job, therefore be more selective and be more knowledgeable about the businesses you apply to. Finally, it is important to be courteous. This shows itself in several ways. You ought to dress in an suitable manner. Casual/smart is good enough for most jobs, smart to formal is necessary for others. Men should be clean-shaven, with a full set or at least trimmed. It is not good enough to go looking as if you did not have time to shave because you got up late, because you don't care about the position.


In general women understand this better than men, so I won't preach, but I would like to give two examples. My father's last bit of advice to me when he retired from the family business was: 1] Do not employ people who have a newspaper folded on the sports page, because they will sit in the toilet working out their bets 2] Do not employ those who roll their own cigarettes because you have to pay them to make them I understand if you do not agree with my Dad's pointers, but employers are merely human as well. Owen Jones, the author of this piece writes on quite a lot of topics, but is at present involved with Professional Translation Services. If you want to know more go to our web site at Real Translator Jobs Advice.


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