MOTIVATION

Motivation has to do with reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way. Motivation is a necessary tool for actualizing our objectives in an efficient and effective manner.

What are the steps one needs to take to be fully motivated and get desired results? Some of these are:

Know your goals!

To know your goal is to understand it, to love it and eventually live it. It is not good enough to merely set goals. The key (and here is the difficult bit) is to really understand your goal and to visualise it in all its glory. What does success look like? How will it make you feel when you achieve it?

One of the secrets of the ultra-successful, whether they are athletes or entrepreneurs is to visualise their success and the level of performance that it will take to get them there.

Work out who can help?

Every great individual stands on the shoulders of others and there is no reason why you should be any different. The people that surround us have a crucial part to play in keeping our spirits lifted. Knowing that you are not alone and that you have the support of others can be a vital step in remaining motivated.

Make a list of the people that can help you towards your goal.

Reward yourself along the way

The road to success can be a long and arduous journey with many a set-back along the way. Without littering the road with the odd reward it can feel like thankless task and before long your motivation will be gone with the wind.

Break your goal down and set markers where you can reward yourself for the hard work that you have done. For example if your goal is to change career or get into a new job, you could reward yourself once you have completed a particular training course or applied for a certain number of jobs.

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FINDING THE RIGHT PEOPLE

Recruitment is not just about finding the right people to work for you, but finding the right people that will want to stay with you to get the desired results. This is because companies are now on high purchase for staff members who would yield good results for them. Therefore addressing long-term goals during the recruitment process becomes necessary, if not vital.

It has been well established that recruiting is important, and so is retaining top talent. To be good at it finding the right people that will help you get the desired results, you will need to make the best use of your interview to get what you really want.  There are few things you can do to get the best result, they include;

1. Ask simple but tough and intelligent questions. 

Try to find out how employees will handle situations by asking them very challenging questions, their response to the questions will determine how capable they will be to handle any situation if the need for such arises.

2. Be consistent. 

The tone of the interview, the intent of the questions, and the information looking to be collected should be the same. It helps determine both cultural fit and makes it easier to see which employees stand out most.

3. Remember, don’t be afraid to eliminate employees if they aren’t the right cultural fit. Such changes can lead to success, or at least help reduce risk. For many successful companies it’s all about finding the right people and keeping them.


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CV WRITING TIPS

Your CV is the most important tool you have to sell yourself; so how can you make yours stand out?

Don’t sell yourself short

Many professionals think two pages is the maximum length for CVs – but it doesn’t have to be. 

Looks matter

Keep your CV neat and well presented – use readable fonts and logical formatting. 

Always proof read

Double check spelling, grammar and dates –

THINGS ENTREPRENEURS SHOULD FOCUS ON TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Statistics have shown that between 80 percent to 90 percent of start -ups fail. This means that about only two businesses out of ten will still be up and running some years from now. Since entrepreneurs are expected to be optimistic people, there are certain things they should focus to be successful. These are outlined below.

Setting the company vision, communicating it and holding the line

An entrepreneur who wants to be successful must be able to create, define and maintain the vision of his firm.

WHAT ARE THE REASONS WHY YOUR PARENTS MAY NOT WANT TO SUPPORT YOUR CHOSEN CAREER?

When choosing your career, you must consider certain things; things like your hobbies, what subjects you liked best, the economy of your country, and most of all, your parents’ decision. Your findings on all these will determine what suits you best as a career choice. Although some of them have little or more roles to play in your decision making process, the one that has a really major role to play is that of your parents’ choice.

However, for a number of reasons, your parents may not want you to choose a particular career. This is because they may not feel equipped to fully help or support you with those career decisions. This can happen because they have your best interest at heart and would want something that will yield good fruit for you in the future. They would want you to make your choices from careers in law or medicine, or even something more practical instead of your dream of being a painter or an artist, etc. Well, below are the some of the reasons why your parents may not support your choice of career.

 

A TARNISH TO THEIR IMAGE  There is this belief that the career

QUESTIONS TO WATCH OUT FOR IN A JOB INTERVIEW......

When you are going for a job interview, just like I would always say , be prepared for any kind of question that would be thrown at you. Most times employers will want to give you questions that they feel you might not answer in order to know your weak points. Most of these questions might seem like a trap; but then, you cannot  run away from them, but you can use those questions to talk about your strengths and things you can do. Here are some questions that job-seekers are asked all the time;

1.   Why are you the best person for this job?

2.   What  makes you uniquely qualified for this role?

IMPORTANT INGREDIENTS OF A COVER LETTER

Cover letters are a great way to market your self to a prospective employer. This means that you must package your self in your Cover Letter and resume in such a manner that the employer will be willing to buy. Some job-seekers still ask if a cover letter is really important. The answer to that question is yes. This is because, the cover letter and resume are the document a prospective employer sees before meeting you in person. Your Cover letter should be customized and should be able to highlight how your skills will be relevant in the position you are applying for.

For a Cover Letter to be effective, it needs to have the following 5 ingredients:

1. It should be addressed properly. This means that you must find out the name of whom the letter needs to be addressed to. if it is to be addressed to say "Mr Chukwudi Ebube", address it that way and in so doing avoid using general salutations like "Dear Sir", or "To whom it may concern"etc.

2. Highlight your strengths. Let your employer be convinced that you are the best fit for the job. You don't have to exaggerate but make sure your relevant skills are well highlighted.