Ultimate Guide How To Get a Dream Job

Getting a job is the most important selling you will ever do. Many young men and women who make good scholastic records in school or college become discouraged after being graduated because of their inability to secure 1 jobs. Classmates seem able to get a work without much trouble and yet these classmates were no better, perhaps not so good, students 'as the unfortunate persons who act employment.

How can we account for this condition of affairs? There may be several reasons, some of them beyond the
control of those who are unemployed. Thus, a period of .business depression may exist and great numbers of people may be out of work. Or some of those who are without work may have physical defects which interfere with their getting jobs. Or they may not have taken courses in school or college that prepared them to earn their living; they have no skills that employers can use. But if business conditions are normal; if applicants are physically fit; and if they have definite skills such as shorthand, bookkeeping, or selling
that business can use, and if they are still unable to get jobs, the probability is that they fail because they cannot sell themselves. In many cases they do not even realize that applying for a job is a, form of selling. In other cases they know nothing about the principles of selling. This chapter will be helpful to both groups, for it ex-
plains how to use the principles of selling in applying for a job.
The ones that are likely to be most useful to you are described below:
Know Yourself

You learned that the salesman who desires to be successful must know his product. Now the product that you
are trying to sell, in applying for a job, is yourself. Many applicants try to get jobs without knowing much
about themselves. This may be surprising statement; yet any employer will tell you that a large percentage
of those who apply for jobs do not know such ordinary facts about them selves as their exact weight or height', what subjects they liked best in school or what wages they expect to be paid. Sometimes they give stumbling, inaccurate answers to questions about these and other matters, but very often they have to admit they do not know. How can an employer have an interest in an applicant under such conditions?

In order to be sure that you are prepared to answer any possible question about yourself that an employer may ask, you should make a written analysis of yourself. A written analysis is more likely to include all your strong and your weak points. Of course, the written analysis is not to be taken on interviews; it is merely to be studied before you make your, calls, so that you will be certain to have all important facts- in mind.

Among the questions about yourself that employers are most likely to ask are the following. Make sure that you can answer each one readily, accurately, and logically:

How old are you?
Where were you born?
Where have you lived?
Where were your parents born?
What are your religious affiliations?


How many days during the past year
have you been ill?    

Where did you go to school or: col-
lege?          :.      .
What course did you take?     
What subjects did you study?
In what subjects did ypu do your
best work?

In what subjects, if any, did you fail?
What grades did you get?
What extra curricular activities did
you engage in?
What student offices did you hold?
What are your chief interests out-
side of school or college?

What business experience have you
had?. 

What business skills have you mastered? (typing, shorthand, office machine operation, arithmetic, bookkeeping and accounting, salesmanship, business letter writing)
Why do you want to work for us?
What is your goal for the future?
What wages do you expect to earn?
What references can you give as to
your ability and character?

The importance of each of these questions will be apparent upon a little reflection. The matter of grades
deserves special comment. Although it is not necessary that you stand first in your class in order to be considered for most business positions, nevertheless it is a fact that employers do not care to employ those who have failed in school. Hence, for some positions, employers require  that applicants have their school furnish complete records of their grades. This is done quite willingly by principals or teachers in charge of placement work. In 'any case you should be able to give employers an idea of the grades you have made and, perhaps, your relative position in your class.