FOUR Helpful Steps to Success

FOUR Helpful Steps to Success


1. Take inventory of what you have accomplished. Make sure that you take a good inventory of things that youve excelled at in the past. This will help to do two things:


1. by including a lot of your positive work, it will help to energize your resume


2. it will improve your chances of success in your next opportunity


2. Organize your accomplishments into a resume. Your resume is a marketing tool designed to let companies know who you are and what you can do for them. If you've done something exciting in your profession be sure to include it in your resume!

An effective way to organize your accomplishments is by using a concept we developed called "P.O.R.T.:


Projects

Objectives

Results

Technologies


With the PORT concept you :


* write down your major/most successful projects,

* list the objectives of those projects,

* tell about the results you were responsible for achieving, and

* list the technologies you used to accomplish those results



Don't be overly concerned about the word "technologies" you may substitute "techniques" or "methodologies" or "means" if it will help you. The primary issue is to tell HOW you did it, HOW you got the results on your projects.



When you're gathering information about a position for which you seem to be a match, you may want to use the PORT concept to make sure that you have all the pertinent information which you'll need in order to customize your resume for that position and to make sure that you're a good fit. )

Because we truly want you to be successful in your job search, we suggest that you strengthen yourself with motivational items such as the following:



Don't Quit


When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As everyone of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out

Don't give up though the pace seems slow -

You may succeed with another blow.


Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -

It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.


Clinton Howell

Now is the time to find the "right" position, so make sure that you "DON'T QUIT"!



Vincent Wright

Independent Recruitment Consultant