The first thing to do when trying to land your dream job is to decide what that dream job is.  After all, if you don’t know what you want, how can you find employment doing it?

Once you’ve figured out what you want, then you need to figure out the skills needed to do that job and work on obtaining them.

Your current job doesn’t need to stand in the way of that.  Take night or weekend classes, spend some of your spare time practicing them.

When you feel that your skills are up to par, go out there and apply for that job.

Whilst you might want a job or role that is very good to progress your career, it’s no good chasing that job if you are nowhere near ready.

To start developing your skills, you need to know where you are, compared to the role you want.

Knowing the needs of the target job is a great place to begin.

To get that clear for yourself you need to find out from the organization offering the position exactly what the new role entails and from that, overlay the plan for developing your skills.

You can easily do this from the paperwork they send you as part of the application process.

Savvy career management skills would make sure that you got hold of this before you started applying, so that you had already taken steps to have the skills, experiences and training in place well before you need to show them off.

The key now is what you are going to do about it next. And that’s where “How To Win At Assessment Centers” will make a difference!