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Tips to Prepare for a Job Change

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This is a guest post by Swati Srivastava. She is an avid writer who loves to pen down her ideas and career tips for job seekers and professionals. Her blog posts, new stories, and articles are focused on the extensive domain of employment sector in the gulf. Currently she is writing for Naukrigulf.com. Follow her @TwitterILinkedInIGoogle+.

Tips to Prepare for a Job Change

Tips to Prepare for a Job Change

In today’s competitive job market, individuals change their careers or jobs more often as compared to employees of decades ago! The rate is increasing due to several reasons such as the availability of more career choices, more focus on career growth, and the openness to find out new job roles. However, changing a job can be challenging, stressful or take you to a ‘dead end’ if you are not fully prepared to deal with it.

So, what you should do to prepare for a job change? If you can get someone who can guide you all through your career path, it is like everything you want!

Here are a few tips that can help you in your career/job change:

Gain clarity

Being on a right career path becomes difficult if you lack clarity about what to do and how to do it. Hence, it is vital to know your purpose for finding a new job and learn the best way to achieve what you want next. [Read more…] about Tips to Prepare for a Job Change

Why All Leaders Should Read The 4-Hour Workweek

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I recently finished reading the book The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated) by Timothy Ferriss. This book is amazing and has a lot of great tips for leaders.

Reading the title you may ask, “How can you be a great leader if you only work 4 hours a week?” Well, the principles you will learn from this book will help you to be a more focused and purposeful leader. Tim Ferriss teaches you things you can do to eliminate the fluff from your life so that you don’t spend time doing things that others could or should be doing and you will learn how to actively determine what is worth your time and what is not.

The 4-Hour Workweek

When I read this book there were many great lessons and pointers that will help me to be a better leader and be more successful in the future. Of all the great things I learned, there were five main points that will benefit leaders. Those points are:

1.  Define what you want out of life rather than your career.

As a leader, it is really easy to get caught up in seeking the next step of progress as you try to climb the corporate ladder. You can become so focused on the next promotion or advancement that you lose sight of why you are doing what you are doing. You should instead focus on what you want out of life, i.e. your personal, family, and educational goals, trips you would like to take, places you would like to see and things you would like to do.

When you focus on what you want out of life rather than a career, it is much easier to change your job or occupation to fit your life goals.  This approach allows you to be more successful as a leader because it causes you to think more deeply about what you spend your time doing.  If you are a leader and your heart isn’t in it, you probably won’t be the best leader you could be.  You will probably only be a half-hearted leader at best if your heart is in a different place. [Read more…] about Why All Leaders Should Read The 4-Hour Workweek

How To Obtain Your Dream Career

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This is a guest post written by Rhys Bates. He works for Washington essay writing company which deals with student writing skills development. He helps students boost their confidence and maximize their abilities.

The question that parents and grownups often ask children is ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ You might have grown up answering the question. When you were a little child the answer that you may have given might have been different every month and your parents may have been amused then. But it is when you reach adolescence that this question assumes a seriousness that cannot be underestimated.

It is this very same question that influences your education, as well, because education can very often pave way to your dream career. If you clearly know what you need to do in your life, then you can pursue the education that will prepare you for a life in that particular field. For instance, if a child wants to be a doctor then he/she can go to medical school and pursue the field of medicine. Almost every field of human endeavor from science and technology to agriculture has become an academic discipline.

How To Obtain Your Dream CareerThere might be students that are not able to pinpoint their chosen dream career. Such students need to take the help of career guidance counselors. Career guidance counselors can point students in the right directions. After a few interviews the counselor will be able to understand the student’s interests. These interests can then be analyzed and the career guidance counselor will be able to suggest a few careers that suit the interests of the student.

Parents, students and guidance counselors need to work together to ensure that the student makes the right decision. Going for higher education is the next step. The educational establishment that offers courses in the chosen academic discipline will then take this a step further by helping the student narrow the field of interest. For instance, if the student decides to go for business management and MBA, the educational institution will help in choosing whether the student prefers finance, human resources etc. [Read more…] about How To Obtain Your Dream Career