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A practical guide for detecting your dream job and get really prepared to get it. Learn how to write your CV and emerge triumphal from your personal interview. Get social networks on your side and position yourself like anyone else in job portals.
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Inhalt
Introduction
The 10,000 Hour Experts
Keys to Finding Your Dream Job
How to Create an Unbeatable Resume
What to include, step by step
The Best Example, the Da Vinci Resume
A Winning Personal Interview
How to Break the Ice
Let Social Networks Play for You
How to Find Your Place in Job Portal
Introduction
It seems as if it’s been over a century but, up until a few decades ago, companies were organized around a power model based on hierarchies. There used to be bosses and subordinates, and everyone was expected to abide by schedules and tasks clearly defined by the organization who hired them. The transformation of the industrial economy into the economy of the information and knowledge age revolutionized the labor world. Thanks to the technological breakthroughs, changes are no longer exceptions but constants, and they are increasingly vertiginous. Today, many business strategies aim for total flexibility, integration of production processes and efficiency through small pieces of equipment that replace subordinate labor along with networks of highly responsive employees.
Our world, inhabited by hyper-connected people that consume, share, observe, manage and act through computers, cell phones, tablets and thousands of other devices, is set up as a different universe. Naturally, the huge transformations of the last couple of years brought about important consequences both to labor and those who perform it, and to its organization within the companies’ structure. Subordinate labor, for a definite duration in time and by employees with average to low skill levels, in exchange for a particular salary is disappearing. Likewise, the employment relationship under which the hired individual complies with his employer’s instructions and undertakes to perform his duties in a particular time, place and way, are also extinguishing. The old method that demanded rigid control and supervision by top and middle management no longer exists. The new employment relationship is not based on disciplinary power.
Within this context, it is essential for employees to adapt to the prevailing changes. In order to find a job, it is fundamental to broaden one’s skills with highly dynamic, constant training. Exercising flexibility in order to be highly adaptive in the face of changes, as well as being able to multi-task is necessary, since it’s almost impossible to restrict labor to only one activity. Besides, in an environment based almost completely on the network model, with interdisciplinary jobs and shared tasks, those who aspire to financial growth should nurture a highly-developed emotional intelligence and a great ability to communicate. Optimally, an adequate education system would add these tools to gain the skills required in the new labor reality. This design depends on good state policies, on the endeavors by the most competitive companies when someone is already working, and on the interested party when he attempts to insert himself in the labor market.
Another factor which has deeply changed labor is globalization. The local parameters are not enough. New laborers do not perform their duties for a particular country or region, but for the whole world. In terms of the market, geographical boundaries are increasingly fuzzy and the person who intends to reach better positions should get used to thinking beyond borders.
To sum up, here are the most important changes that have resulted in a drastic turn in labor’s traditional structures:
a.Technology created a real revolution in labor relations. Manpower was replaced by sophisticated devices that substitute the human factor to levels that were once unthinkable. Initially, companies needed laborers trained to operate them, but automation reached such point where the substitution is almost total. In turn, technological breakthroughs help to multiply people’s capacity for action. The development of technological tools provided an opportunity to go from mass, standard production to diversified production, on a smaller scale -- highly flexible and variable. Today, every client or consumer’s requirements can be attended to in real time.
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