The 10 Power Principles Of Successful Job Acquisition!
May 10th, 2010
Job acquisition has to be your priority. But, today there are two job marketplaces. One is the old-fashioned traditional marketplace of resumes, classified ads, website postings, agencies and recruiters, interviews and rejection letters.
The other is the hot fast-track job acquisition marketplace of career partners, contact banks, automated interviews, professional introductions, interactive dialogs, on-the-spot employment creation and savvy negotiations.
You see, the 21st Century job market has changed a lot. The old-fashioned ways of job acquisition mean that you could be looking for a job for months. Besides, expectations of both employers and job-seekers have moved in decidedly new directions. For example, employers expect job-seekers to know and understand corporate goals. They want prospects to demonstrate how they can contribute.
On the other hand, job opportunities are being created on the spot and the candidate can be part of the creation process. Above-average deals are the products of above average negotiations where “dollars” is only one part of the total package.
Most importantly, if you want to excel at job acquisition, if you want a superior job with more money, if you want to select your next job rather than settle for it, you must understand and embrace the dynamics of today’s job marketplace.
We call this new dynamic as The 10 Power Principles of Your Job Acquisition Success! Here they are:
1. Run your job search like an entrepreneurial business using basic marketing strategies.
2. Identify your specific strengths, capabilities and key transferable skills.
3. Develop a compelling communication and presentation plan to position you as a highly attractive job candidate.
4. Identify and recruit personal contacts and career partners.
5. Research and target organizations that match your interests and skills. Identify specific decision-makers to approach.
6. Utilize various methods to arrange non-interview meetings with targeted decision-makers.
7. Practice and perfect assertive face-to-face communication techniques.
8. Master powerful closing and negotiating techniques.
9. Follow through and follow up on each employer contact.
10. Repeat the process to acquire multiple job offers so you can select your next job rather than settle for it.
Put these amazing job acquisition principles to work for and you guarantee your next job . . . and you can do it in a matter of days!
So, read everything you can get your hands on that will help you master these 10 principles. The small investment in time that you put into learning and understanding these exciting job acquisition techniques will pay huge dividends in the job marketplace . . . and put you light years ahead of the competition!
PAUL BOWLEY
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/the-10-power-principles-of-successful-job-acquisition-131089.html
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May 10th, 2010 at 5:11 am
Do Obama supporters identify themselves as radical leftists as their leader is one?
Obama is a follower of Saul Alinsky’s rules for community organisers. Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals in 1970. Rules for Radicals opens with a quote about Lucifer, written by Saul Alinsky: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."
In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky says: "Here I propose to present an arrangement of certain facts and general concepts of change, a step toward a science of revolution." He builds on the tactical principles of Machiavelli: "The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-nots on how to take it away."
Rules for Radicals is concerned with the acquisition of power: "my aim here is to suggest how to organize for power: how to get it and how ot use it." This is not to be done with assistance to the poor, nor even by organizing the poor to demand assistance: "…[E]ven if all the low-income parts of our population were organized … it would not be powerful enough to get significant, basic, needed changes."
Alinsky advises the organizer to target the middle class, rather than the poor: "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America’s white middle class. That is where the power is."
Alinsky is interested in the middle class solely for its usefulness: "Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority."
To accomplish this, Alinsky writes that the organizer must "begin to dissect and examine that way of life [the middle class lifestyle] … He will know that ‘square’ is no longer to be dismissed as such — instead his own approach must be ‘square’ enough to get the action started."
Rules for Radicals defends belief that the end justifies the means: "to say that corrupt the ends," writes Alinsky, "is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles … the practical revolutionary will understand … [that] in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind."
Altogether, Alinsky provides eleven rules of the ethics of means and ends. They are morally relativistic:
"The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe’s ‘conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action’; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind."
"The second rule of the ethics of the means and ends is that the judgment of the ethics of means is dependent on the political position of those sitting in judgment." Alinsky elaborates his meaning on this point, saying that if you were a member of the underground Resistance, "… then you adopted the means of assassination, terror, property destruction, the bombing of tunnels and trains, kidnapping, and the willingness to sacrifice innocent hostages to the end of defeating the Nazi’s. Those who opposed the Nazi’s conquerors regarded the Resistance as a secret army of selfless, patriotic idealists …." Rules for Radicals is therefore concerned with how to win. "…[I]n such a conflict, neither protagonist is concerned with any value except victory."
"The third rule of the ethics of means and ends is that in war the ends justifies almost any means."
"There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds, he becomes a founding father."
Rules for Radicals teaches the organizer that he must give a moral appearance (as opposed to behaving morally): "All effective action requires the passport of morality."
The tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends states "that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments … Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means."
Rules for Radicals provides the organizer with a tactical style for community organization that assumes an adversarial relationship between groups of people in which one either dominates or is dominated.
"The first rule of power tactics is: power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
"Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat."
"Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can
May 10th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Nice rant.
Obama is only radical in the US. In the rest of the world he’s considered very moderate.
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May 10th, 2010 at 10:15 am
You are completely uneducated.
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May 10th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Your premise is false….He isn’t radical.
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May 10th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Have you ever actually read the Book? It seems more likely to me that you simply copied and pasted typical nonsense because you can’t seem to grasp where someone is coming from. Try reading the book, you might learn something.
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May 10th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Probably not. They are the same loons that consider Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers to be decent average citizens.
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May 10th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Communist guru
Saul Alinsky’s son: “Obama learned his lesson well”
By Judi McLeod
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4784
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May 10th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Radical? Awesome? Bodacious? Cowabunga? Narly?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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