A Recent Question:- 

“Thanks for your advice on my depressing rejection following the telephone interview with the insurance company. Yes, you made some good points there. As far as I know, I answered ALL the four questions the interviewer put to me (the usual: Tell me when you dealt with a difficult customer, deadlines etc.), so this is why I was disgusted to get the short email from him saying I hadn’t been shortlisted.

Do you think age discrimination may also have had something to do with it? With my being 46, maybe he has looked at all the other applicants, saw that they were much younger, and therefore thought that the age gap was too big? I know they do employ a lot of these young teenagers now in these large offices, a lot of whom just lark around and have scant interest in the work (another BIG mistake of these firms when they take such individuals on!).

Being constantly unemployed has really taken its toll on me. I live on xxx, where there are HUNDREDS chasing each vacancy, and am now so fed up that I just feel like relocating. But where?”

My Suggestion:- 

Hey there.

Let’s see then.

I wonder if you might look at this a different way. I get my clients to take a closer look at the kind of work they really want - it’s not time for an ‘anything will do’, because that’s when recruiters sense that you are less than 100% up for a job and it tilts the balance.

So, here are a few tips from my research…

1. Get really clear on what turns you on in life as a whole - what do you love to do?
2. How ‘might’ that translate into a job you really would love? What would that job be. Try to get really specific. If you can’t be, try to pin down what area of work you might love to do.
3. Check how this fits with question 1. If you were doing that job, would it really give you a buzz to get out of bed in the morning and would your eyers light up as you go in each day.

Get these clear before you start thinking of upping sticks and moving on.

Take a little time and consider these. Tomorrow, get yourself a good paper - I usually recommend the Sunday Times (in the UK), and with a good red felt tip, red circle the jobs that give you that buzz. DO NOT rule yourself out of these jobs, whatever they are - they are the ones that give you the buzz, HOWEVER impossible they may seem, that’s not the point.

Regards

Martin Haworth
http://www.HowToLandYourDreamJob.com

A new online survey carried out by BUPA, the UK’s largest private healthcare provider, has identified some worrying trends in employee/employment appropriateness.

Albeit a relatively unscientific and informal survey, it shows that up to 75% of Brits are in the wrong job, according to the free online personality test that they are running.

Behavioral traits are relatively easy to measure online and as few as 18 questions, taking around 5 minutes can show you up in your true colors (and shapes, for that matter).

Using this information, it’s possible to make a pretty good guess at how well people fit into certain jobs and the survey takes this into account too, though with a fairly small list of jobs to base the outcomes of indivuduals who take part.

If you want to have a go at the test, for which BUPA will make a donation to a British charity, checkout this link www.bupaworld.com.

We’ll take a longer look at some of the numbers that came from the 2,300 (to date) survey over coming weeks - safe to say that our work at www.HowToLandYourDreamJob.com supports these findings and help people, worldwide find a better way, and how to make your work better for you.