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How to fast track your career

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What constitutes a good job? Who determines it is a good job? If a job does not help you fulfill your purpose in life, then it is not a good job. You have got to ask yourself, “How do I want to live my life?” You can create a job for yourself anywhere anytime as long as you can convince and demonstrate to a potential employer that s/he can make or save more money than the cost of hiring you.

Think about this for a moment: Why would Jane and James be changing jobs anytime they want, while John and Joyce are jobless and have been unsuccessful in securing jobs? Why would Peter and Janet be stuck in the same old dead end career for ages contended with their mediocre pay? Which one are you? Jane and James represent the creative minority in every sector constituting about 5%. Obviously, there is something that these characters know that majority don’t.

Ignition Training Group has organized a one day workshop on the 27th of July 2024. The objective is to equip you with the right tools in order to create and develop a valuable nameplate or brand called ‘you’ in your chosen field. Here is a preview of what to expect during this workshop:

  • You will get to learn the five advancement strategies used by the 5% minority.
  • You will be able to identify the winning edges in your field and how to present yourself as the ideal person for a specific job.
  • You will learn the universal single most important thing that potential employers look for.
  • You will gain insight that will enable you identify the five major critical factors that should signal a breakaway point or change in your career path.
  • You will discover clear pointers to your life’s purpose and God given assignment in life.
  • You will be shown the key rules used for making decisions in hiring highly paid employees and how to get ahead in your career.

This workshop is about the EVOLUTION of your professional life or it’s EXTINCTION. If you would like to be part of this workshop, please write or call us for details on how to register. Your investment for this workshop is USD100

Categories Ignition to Recognition

How to sell yourself in the job market

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It may interest you  to note that there are more job openings today than there were two decades ago. As a matter of fact there are more job varieties than has ever been in the history of human evolution. However, only about 20% of all job openings are advertised through the main stream print media. This means that there is a large and hidden(no so obvious) job market that most job seekers have no clue about. These job openings are never advertised in the newspapers.

What does this tell you? You may have to wait far too long if you hope to secure a job through the adverts in the mainstream print media. As a job seeker you need to be a little aggressive in your search for your dream job. Make sure that every day, you are building on your network of professionals who are already in the field that you would like to explore.

Volunteer your skills and expertise to assist them in their projects without even expecting any sort of reward. You will be pleasantly surprised that they will be more than wiling to introduce you to the people who have the power and authority to hire. It is so paradoxical that there are employers out there who are currently frustrated because they don’t seem to get the right candidates for the job openings in their organizations.

Your CV is a very crucial document. It is like (and indeed is) a sales brochure and should be a selling document as opposed to a ‘telling document’. The work of a CV is not to get you a job; it is meant to get you an interview for you to sell yourself.  It should not be a list of duties and responsibilities from your previous employment.  It should capture the reader’s attention with the profile highlighting on your skills, experiences and relevant qualifications.

An average recruitment manager spends only about 30 seconds glancing at a CV. Which means that your profile should be loaded with powerful ammunition that will make the prospecting employer want to meet with you. We may not exhaustively explain to you here how to create a winning CV, but it is important that you grasp the fact that you need to give it much of your attention.

Categories Ignition to Recognition

Winning Cooperation

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Why do so many couples and people argue and quarrel? Often unintentionally, most people argue to flex their egos and to demonstrate their own importance or superiority. What does their blatant disagreement win them? Very little if any! It gets them the reputation of being disagreeable. Unfortunately, this has never been proven as a dependable way of winning friends and influencing people.

One of the most critical factors in personal influence psychology is to find as many ways as you can to be agreeable. And the best way to be agreeable is to agree. I am not in any way suggesting that you have to get through life without ever being disagreeable, but rather to point out that it is not required of you to express verbal judgment on all statements made by others. As a matter of fact most quarrels and disagreement, in many instances, center on very petty and trivial matters. You are not under any obligation to mete out your judgment or opinion on everything.

You can engage in a discussion without any definite disagreement by simply being a silent but interested participant. It is better to be quiet than to be vocally disagreeable. Of course, there are those rare instances when you must take an adverse position and state your disagreement but, always make a habit of delaying as courtesy would permit. If you must really express an adverse opinion, then you must do so not as an argument or disagreement but as a thoughtful statement.

There are a couple of ways through which you can accomplish this one of which is what we call ‘The Other Persons Method’. Here is how it works-do not make an open statement that you disagree. Instead, express your disagreement by suggesting the following: “Some people might disagree by saying …. (Put your disagreement into the words of ‘some people’). When you disagree in this manner, your disagreement is never expressed out-rightly, but it is attributed to what ‘perhaps, some people would say’. Remember, when you disagree with another person, you deflate his or her precious ego.

Everyone has a compelling subconscious need to be right-because to be wrong hurts their precious ego. To be correct provides a pleasant glow of self-satisfaction and it strengthens the feeling of self-importance. By disagreeing, you challenge and even undermine another’s feeling of being right, of being correct, of self-satisfaction, of self-confidence, of self-importance and you trigger a subconscious resentment.

Categories Ignition to Recognition

Career Advancement

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Many people in employment assume their assigned duties and roles merely as passive subjects of those to whom they report to. They let their jobs use them until they become what we would call worn out parts. The amazing paradox however is that anyone can and should use their job instead of letting their job use them. Look-if you think of your job as drudgery, you will obviously come to hate it; if you think of it as a routine, with the passage of time, you will ultimately loathe it.

Here is how to use your job: If you can think of your job as a constant challenge (and actually it is), you will embrace every opportunity it provides for you to improve on yourself and your performance ratings. As a result, you will enter into an exciting journey of career advancement and fulfillment.

Begin at once to do your job so much better than what you have been doing before until you have reserve skills and energy that wouldn’t be utilized in that particular job. In other words, become better than your job. When you become better than what your present job is demanding from you then you will have outgrown your present job.

As soon as you have become much bigger than your present job, somehow you will either get a bigger job-from your present employer or another employer. Always think of your job as a never ending series of challenge and opportunity to improve. To improve in order to outgrow and become much bigger.

Categories Ignition to Recognition

Maintaining the status quo is a risky affair

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Growth is vital to both your success at a personal level and the prosperity of your business as well. Growth thinking is necessary to keep you and your business multiplying the results you produce. Every person, every enterprise and every national economy should and must focus on growth.

In a world that is growing and expanding every day, lack of growth means that you are lagging behind: If you are not growing, competitors will eventually overtake you. Growth is the only guarantee you have for the future. If you don’t focus on growth you will cease to exist. Here are some truths that you need to know about GROWTH.

  1. Growing takes courage. Every step you take to grow yourself in any dimension carries with it a certain degree of uncertainty. You have to endanger what you have already in order to become something more. Therefore, you must be willing to take reasonable amount of risks in order to grow.
  2. Growth has a psychological dimension. The mere experience of growth has a way of energizing you; growth energizes the business enterprise and attracts new opportunities. If you are not enthused about what you are doing with your life or what is happening in your business, then it may be a big tell sign that you are not on growth mode.
  3. Growth for its own sake does not do any good. Many business enterprises run into to trouble when people at the hem of leadership become obsessed with expansion plans. Any growth plans must be gradual and strategic to give you competitiveness within the realities of the operating environment.
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