Sunday, November 17, 2013

Which Are The Elements To Look At While Looking For A Job

By George Dodson


When searching for a job what you should understand is the performance goals expected out of you when you are employed in that particular job. While it may be significant for you to improve your individual performance, you should not forget the importance of maximizing the performance of the company too. Making sure those around you are successful will help you succeed.

We always need to set our performance goals within the purview of the business and management objectives. While trying to set goals from our employment's point of view, we need to examine what are the goals that the company or the management is vying for. The company also may have done their homework to set individual performance goals for their employees and you need to consider this when looking for the job.

You need to think about what a company needs when you want to work for it. You should try to find ways to make the company more profitable.

While we plan to set our goals while searching for suitable jobs, many of us are tempted to make a common misconception. We all tend to make the appraisal and evaluation of our individual career objectives, while conveniently ignoring the overall objectives of the company. Normally the performance evaluation of an employee is done on an annual basis. Managers sit down to evaluate performance of the employees on the basis of their performance of the past year. There are various types of formats used by the management for this annual assessment. This process may go smoothly for sometimes but may fail to help identify the performers sometimes. These annual appraisals of the employers should be the basis when we set our performance goals.

A performance appraisal can be important, but it's not the sole thing you should strive for. It is always possible that while using set patterns of performance formats, many a times the employers overlook the actual work done by you. Constantly getting better at what you do is a way of life. The possibility of some unexpected developments also cannot be ignored. You need to look forward and increase the effectiveness of your working for generating better results.

Try to set goals, like applying for 5 jobs every day. Also talk to at least 1 new person a day. These new contacts can be utilized to hunt for employment. You can also keep abreast of the developments by reading at least one article or a report in a day. All of these will help you improved your chances at the job hunt.




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