Month: July 2020

Education and Your Job Search

Education requirements vary. The requirements vary by the job type. Additionally, education requirements vary from job sector and from one employer to the next. This article shows you how to prepare for presenting your education to get the maximum interviews.

Understanding Education Requirements

Knowing the education requirements of any job is important. Before going to a job interview, attempt to get a job description. Here are some places to find job descriptions.

  1. Job boards and job search engines
  2. Recruiters
  3. Hiring company websites
  4. Direct contact with the company’s human resources department or from the hiring manager
  5. A jobs search with your favorite search engine

Do You Need a College Degree?

In some companies, college degrees are not a requirement.  Some of the most successful company founders don’t have a degree. In the tech sector, airlines sector, construction and home repair sector, sales positions, and other roles often don’t require a college degree.

On the other hand, many companies require a college degree. In some professions, a college degree plus college credentials or advanced degrees are requirements. College requirements are important in many fields. Additionally, credentials or certifications may be required.

Some organizations have specific training for their new hires. Furthermore, these companies train you in specific skills that last you throughout your career. In working for a company that is well known throughout your industry as a training company makes you more marketable.

However, a college degree may prove helpful to move into leadership roles for these positions. Please do your own research through job listings to find the education requirements.

How Important is Your College Major?

The importance of a college major depends on the industry. Accounting, finance, chemistry, engineering, physics, biology, and other majors often qualify a person immediately useful for specific jobs.

On the other hand, some positions do not require a specific college major.

I majored in English. Then I entered Naval Officers Candidate School. The math and science I studied in college were sufficient to give me a basis to study Navy navigation and tactics. When I went aboard the ship, I continued to receive training on the operations of the ship. A year into my service, I qualified as a Navy bridge officer (Officer of the Deck). Additionally, I was promoted to a position as a public affairs officer. My studies in journalism and English gave me the groundwork to develop the skills to manage the shipboard radio and television station, the ship’s newspaper and cruise book, to write daily press releases Additionally, I was able to develop the skills to coordinate and escort VIPs like the Bob Hope and his troupe of performers and technicians.

Should You Get a Degree?

For students who are making a decision whether to go through devote four or more years and spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars to get a degree, I want to share my thoughts.  Graduating from college did two things for my career. I got a key to let me through doors marked, “Degree required.” I gained acceptance into business circles and social circles where having a college degree meant credibility.

Career Strategy: Creating a Powerful Plan for Your Success

Career Strategy: Where do you start in creating a strategic plan that is tailored for you? What do you need to know about adjusting your plan to an ever-changing job market?

Check-off List

A career plan creates a check-off list. Through this check-off list, you will create focus and direction. Your intuition can emerge to see options that might somehow never have come to you.

Career Options

Identify your career options. Develop a refined list of options by examining your interests, skills, and values through self-assessment. researching companies, and talking to professionals in the field. You can further narrow your list when you take part in experiences such as shadowing or working alongside a company employee, volunteering, or internships.
Next, list all the things you need to do to accomplish your career goals.

Here are questions to ask to create a strategy for you career.

    1. Location: Where Do You Want to Live?
    2. Type of Job or Industry: What Do You Want to Do?
    3. How Well Do You Work with Other People?
    4. Opportunities for Promotion: Do You Want to Lead People?
    5. Money: How Important is Income?
    6. Risk: How Well Do You Tolerate Risk?
    7. Do You have a Mentor or Advisor?
    8. Job Security: What are the Risks of Playing It Safe?
    9. What Education Do You Need?
    10. What Experience Do You Need?
    11. Should You Take an Aptitude Test?
    12. Who Hires People with Your Goals and Qualifications?

    Organize by Your Priorities.

    It’s not enough to list options. You must prioritize them. What are your top skills? What interests you the most? What’s most important to you? Whether it’s intellectually challenging work, security and benefits, the right location, or a big paycheck, you must know your priorities.

    Compare one answer against the other in terms of importance. Reshuffle the order to match your priorities. Additionally, notice how your limits on any priority affects opportunities on your other priorities. Preferences on location can range from your home to one neighborhood to one city or to anywhere across the country. If you are open to living anywhere, your opportunities will increase for other priorities. For example, if you are open to relocation, your potential for promotions will increase to locations where a company has needs for managers. Additionally, your opportunities for security may increase with your willingness to change location.

Thinking: Learning how to Manage the Pain Between our Ears

Thinking: Happiness is easy when everything is going our way. However, we can suffer, even when have everything we want. By managing our thinking, we can find joy from learning how to think about our world.

Thinking: Learning how to Manage the Pain Between our Ears

Being happy is a normal. Staying unhappy is not. www.jaywren.com

Traditionally, we see our thoughts in three categories: the past, the present, the future. I add another category: the flow.

Ruminating

Ruminating about or regretting the past is painful. Additionally, filling our heads with anger over the past is enticing. We can imagine how we could have said or done things to people whom, we believe, have harmed us. Rather than allowing the past to haunt us, we can process these thoughts by taking simple steps to change our thinking. Simply taking a deep breath can change our thinking. Also, getting into action can change our focus. Take a walk. Finish a task we have been putting off. Writing a gratitude list put us into action mentally and can alter our mood.

Worrying

Worrying is a thief of our joy and clarity. We see problems as insurmountable. Worrying about the future steals our energy. Additionally, worrying clutters our mind. Rather than worrying, we can write about our concerns. From there, we can seek advice. Additionally, we can create a plan to see solutions. We might find that clearing our minds, we can see that we have options. Even when faced with unavoidable problems, we can prepare to meet them. Preparation builds confidence and helps us we that we will have the wisdom to deal with frightening situations.

Here are things that help me feel happy return to clarity and relief. First, can we simply let the feelings pass? Thinking about the unhappy experience heightens our unhappiness. Even years later, when we think of bad experiences, the unhappy feelings can return. Therefore, not thinking about the cause of our unhappiness allows us to find happiness and return to the present moment. A process for letting feelings pass is to sit with a feeling and focus on the feeling, not the things that we think are causing our unhappiness.

Second, can we change things that make us unhappy? If we can, we can concentrate on solutions and not the problem.

Present Moment

Thinking is still necessary. Sometimes diligent thinking is necessary. When I learn new skills, I must carefully think about what I am doing. I am in the present moment. But as I become more skillful, I move from the present moment to the highest level of thinking.

Flow

Returning the present moment is simple. We can focus on the things in front of us. An even higher level of thinking is living in the flow. Some people call this psychological condition “the zone.”

We stop thinking. We just move through time and action without analysis or distraction.

When I was a Navy officer, standing bridges watches was stressful. I commanded a watch team to keep the ship on course and speed. Additionally, I made changes in course and speed to keep the ship safe and on task. At first, I did a great deal of analytical thinking. As I became for capable, I was no longer analyzing. I simply performed.

Today, when I am writing I often find that my thoughts become like a flow. In those moments, I feel peace. My vigilance turns to a simple awareness of what is happening and what to do.

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