How To Get A Job - The Key To Landing Any Position
What makes a person right for a job? Is it the skill level? Maybe. The amount of degree’s and diplomas they have coming off of their business card? I don’t think so. What about the number of years they have been doing a similar role? Well, that could help, but if you want to find out what I think is most important keep reading below.
Before I get into what makes a person right for a job, it’s only customary that I introduce myself to you and share with you my story. As a boy growing up I always knew I wanted to help people. It just so happened that as I grew up I found myself getting more involved with students and watching them grow. When I went to university for teaching I quickly found that I loved it; being in a classroom with students, watching them grow and learn, admiring their natural curiosity. It gave me a sense of pride knowing that I was impacting their young minds.
Fast-forward to 2015. I was no longer following the teaching route but instead switched focus to public speaking and motivation. I started to delve into good personal development books such as Think and Grow Rich, Success Through Positive Mental Attitude, and How to Win Friends and Influence People. Reading these books only enhanced my passion for helping people. With this new mindset, I decided to join Toastmasters International to enhance my public speaking ability, motivate, and lead others to greatness. Through this transformative time in my life I started to notice that a lot of people become comfortable, they stop learning, they stop growing, they become satisfied; people get ready to go to jobs that they don’t like, jobs that are making them sick.
This brings me to what makes a person right for the job. The truth is that it’s not about the right person for the job, it’s about the right job for the person. It doesn’t matter how much experience a person has, how many degrees they have or even how much experience they have. What’s important is that the person who fills role believes in the work that the company is doing and believes that with that job they can make a difference. See, if you hire a person who wants a job, they’ll work for your money, but if you hire a person who believes in what you believe, you’ll have an employee who will be willing to put in the extra work, give you everything you have and actually care about the product they’re putting out.
To your success, Jacob Lethbridge
