Where Are You in Your Career Adventure Path?

Where Are You in Your Career Adventure Path? 

Are you in a rut or in a groove in your career adventure path? Rut and groove are both furrows. But a rut is boring, uninteresting, and can be depressing. Whereas being in the groove is good fun and energizing. And being in the groove is the act of getting the best out of yourself.

Then I would like to ask you a few questions about your career and I believe if you’re able to give me satisfactory answers, then you’re good to go in your career adventure.

Where are you at the moment?

In a Rut or a Groove?

A rut is caused by having your foot firmly on the accelerator. Whereby you’re pressing it down for all you are worth but you’re not going anywhere. Absolutely nowhere!

You are, most probably, covering all the people standing behind you with earth, grass, rubbish, waste, etc, but you’re not moving. In fact, you’re getting deeper and deeper in trouble until finally, you are up to the axle and not going anywhere. So stuck that you will need a spade, a fork, a tow truck, or anything to get you going again.

How did you get there?

Doing the same thing day after day. Following the same routine over and over again. Following those wonderful phrases in your head;

It was good enough for …. It will be good enough for me

It worked. It will work for me.

You always did it this way…………..

Before you criticize me for talking negatively about the tradition, I am in no way knocking or mocking the tradition. Tradition has a place but not at the expense of happiness and excitement in our lives.

In our book, if it makes you unhappy, bored, and pessimistic why are you still doing it? Then, the question is:

How would you get out of it?

Simple.

Change your habits.

It’s your habits that got you into the rut and it’s your habits that will get you out.

But FIRST.

You have to accept that you are in a rut.

You have to admit that you have been taking the easy option for a long time.

You have to accept that at a certain point in time, you made a mistake.

You have to accept that time and money are not going to get you out of this mess.  

However, you need to know that:

You have to change!

You must initiate the action. No one else. Just YOU. No one can get you out of a rut only you.

NOW STOP.

Sit down for a moment. Think.

•    What’s the real problem?

•    What’s behind your going deeper and deeper into a rut?

•    What’s the fear here?

•    What are you trying to avoid? AND

DON’T rush it. Stay with it.

Do whatever you need to do to bottom it and find the way forward.

NOW ARE YOU WITH ME?

Gradually write down the way out. Don’t take the first answer. Make an effort to write down 30 ideas of the way out. Gradually you will become more and more creative. Then one idea will stick. It will come equipped with fairy lights, a spotlight, and if you are really lucky-WOW! a full orchestra.

That’s the way forward.

Now you have a way forward that feels comfortable. Now you are moving into the groove. You feel happy, energized, and focused. You are in the flow. The passion is aroused. Everything is in synch. Everything you do works.

You are off.

Go on try.

You owe it to yourself.

Good Luck

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If you want to know more about how to take your career to the next level, I will advise that you try to lay your hands on the ebook written by Steve Austin on Kindle ebook, the ebook also has a paperback and hardcover copy to have a physical copy of the book. The title of the book is 

Career Success With Ease: What You Need To Know To Achieve Success In Your Career Adventure

How To Understand The Basic Characteristics of your Interviewer

How To Understand The Basic Characteristics of your Interviewer

Every individual has a specific situation bothering him/her in every individual life and your interviewers cannot be left out of this experience. 

However, If you can sense an interviewer's style and build rapport with them, you’ll have confidence in providing specific information that will give you an edge over your interviewers.

Listed below are the characteristics you should take note of in your interviewers:

1.     Inattentive: There is a time that the interviewer isn’t mentally present, maybe he/she is thinking of something more important or something happened before your interview that really bothered his/her mind. It’s impossible to impress this kind of interviewer that is distracted by something. Such an individual can equally purposely try to distract your attention to make you fail miserably. It’s very important for you to keep a good impression of yourself by smiling and don’t panic. At times a scenario of an impending crisis may be created to test your attitude or how you’re going tackle such a situation in your place of work. You may equally give your best approach and offer him/her to reschedule. But make sure to give a good account of yourself address to send him/her the right message and be prepared to attend the interview if rescheduled.

2.     Friendly: This is the type of interviewer that gives jokes, smiles, and tells you to take it easy on yourself. But he/she aims for you to put in a relaxed mind in such a way that you will then unconsciously expose too much information (ones that can be detrimental to your career) about yourself. You should be kind, and friendly but at the same always remember that you shouldn’t also get carried away doing this. Stick with your goal. Remember you’re not part of them yet. You should be wary of putting yourself in a tight corner where you wouldn’t be able to scale through the interview stage while pursuing your career.

3.     Interrogator: This is a typical type of interviewer that seems not to show any emotion and inflicts tension on the applicants. The best thing you can do is stay calm, focus, and show respect and confidence. This kind of interviewer observes how you can deal with this kind of scenario. And remember that most interrogator types of interviewers often became your best advocate throughout your interview process or even into the job. These types of interviewers are always hell-bent on making sure that the company employs the best candidates for the vacant position, though they may prove too strict and rigid once you put in your best, and believe that you can make it through.

4.     Laser Beam: This type of interviewer only focuses on one topic. Like discussing quotas, this style is for line managers. When you find yourself in this type of interview, you should make it a point of duty to fulfill his/her expectations of you. Satisfy his/her judgment and move on. Don’t derail or fidgety while responding to any question(s) being asked, because those questions are not meant to make sure that you fail it is just a clear indication that they are employing the best candidates for the job. See it in that direction and stay focused.

5.     Shotgun: This is the type that wants to discuss anything. The questions are all over the place, you even don’t have a vacant time because he/she is full of questions. This is where your anxious presentation really pays off because you can involve your strengths in many distinct exposures to the job. Your experience can give you an edge in this type of interview, but yet you must be very careful in answering not to derail while responding to questions asked.

6.     Silver Bullet: Believes there's one magic question to ask -- and one magic response that determines whether you're right for the job. The Silver Bullet asks a few hasty questions about your skills. Then ask “off-the-wall” questions, which are questions you didn’t even expect. Even though these questions don’t have a wrong answer he/she decides if it’s yes or no. Simply answer every question and don’t worry about your answers too much.

While preparing for an interview, you must try as much as possible to alter your approach to different situations you may find yourself in life and in which you may equally experience with your Interviewers: You should prepare yourself to step into a situation of power when you identify the interviewer's style and adjust your approach accordingly. As you prepare for the interview, ask yourself, "How might my answers be different for different interview styles?" 

With a Laser Beam, for example, you might offer him a choice when you begin answering a question ("Would you like to talk about this aspect of the job or that one?"). An achievement story for a friendly Interviewer might focus more on your teamwork skills, and the same story for an Interrogator Interviewer, because you might begin by stating the results of your individual work. The more you show your emotional knowledge by understanding the interviewer's objective for that interview, the more likely he'll be able to listen to you.

How To Discover Your Passion For Successful Career Adventure

How To Discover Your Passion For a Successful Career Adventure

Having a better understanding of what your passion, interest, likes, dislikes, capabilities, strengths and weaknesses are, is the right step in the right direction for an eventful career adventure. Then, if I may ask you, what are you passionate about? I didn’t ask if you are passionate. 

But what are you passionate about? What stirs your emotions? What is it you can’t stop talking about whenever someone asks: “What are you passionate about?”  What’s the fire in your belly? What really turns you on? What do you love doing most?

What is it that you love doing so much that you forget time? You forget others. You are so focused that you don’t hear anything. What is it that gets your creative juices going? What is it that you love more than anything else?

Some people are known to be passionate about books. They love reading them. And hence, those books are all placed in their respective homes on the shelves. Each of the books has a neighbor. These people fondle them and care for them. Place bookmarks in them and never fold the corner of their pages.

People like Florence Nightingale, Michael Jordan, and a host of other notable people have used their passion to benefit the world at large to the extent that even after they have stopped what they are passionate about people should not forget their contribution to mankind generally.  What about you? What is the deep-down passion that lights your life up? What is it that you love doing and being beyond all else?

Go on, you can tell yourself. There is no need to tell others. Just have a go and tell yourself what your passions are and discern what you can gain from doing such. What is that love that stirs you up - that love that others may not be interested in but is so important to you. What is it that makes you forget time? What is it that you love doing? We all have it. We all have at least one thing that we are passionate about. What’s yours?

The bottom line is; passion is motivating. Passion is more motivating than money.

Passion energizes and transforms you. When you are passionate about something then you enter that ‘flow’ state where time stands still. You are so focused. And, you are really in tune with yourself to get things done to the best of your knowledge.

Go on and try it. And GET IT DONE!!!

I wish you Good Luck.

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