7 Ways to Find Your Perfect Job

Mostly Good Advice But Not This Area

Good advice overall, but not with the drug company example. Did you consider why the drug companies want structured presentations? It is a highly regulated area including sales presentations where zero exaggerations are tolerated. It is the last place where Lily wants a 'creative' sales person.

Great Article

Points 3 and 4 are crucial elements in a job search.

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Good Advice here

I especially agree with points 6 and 7. I was recently displaced from my current position and given 60 days to find another position within my company. I cant tell you how many interviews I went on where there was no chemistry with the hiring manager and I knew even though I might end up jobless I could not work for someone who whould make me miserable! I also asked to meet with other members of the team to get their input on what it was like to work for the boss and how they worked together. I ended finding a great job in my present company! Thanks for getting this advice out!

Perfect job

there is a new breed of job matching sites that claim to match a person's skills with open jobs. One is jobfox and another which got a lot of press last week is called realmatch.com.

Job Match/Manager Mis-Match

I'm so uncertain about my new job! I love the job itself. I'm working for a small business and the owner seems so insecure about me & he's has been a little sarcastic about my abilities. They gave me a book to follow & train myself w/no guidance. I've been lost and developed some uncertainty. I told them I would be more successful with some guidance, but they just could not find/make the time to help me. I worry that the boss & manager want to get rid of me! They tell me I'm not "getting" it. I felt like I was learning fine until they put these negative thoughts in my head. I LOVE the job, but the owner & manager are unsupportive and seem to keep trying to point out that I'm not a good fit. They are very indirect and I can't really read them. I feel they are not honest and I am scared to lose my job. I'm also scared to face them! I don't know if I should pursue the job or give up. I have told them that their negative feedback and lack of direction and support have made me nervous and uncertain (today). I'm not sure what they will do about that. There are no other opportunities within the company since it's a small business. I wrote out a list of what a good manager in my past has done and what I think a good manager can provide. Should I give them this list? It seems they just want me to learn it all without them putting in any time into my learning. I feel very lost and scared. I don't want to waste my time with bad managers, yet I don't want to give up a job that I really love.

7 Ways to find your perfect job

There are no perfect jobs. We all know this but have you tried the 80/20 rule? You would or do love the/a job 80% of the time. Here's my story...

I interviewed with a Fortune 500 company 1.5 years prior to working for them. I remember being so disappointed that I didn't receive any feedback after the interview. In the meantime I took a few temping jobs trying to decide where I wanted to be. Fast forward over a year later; a call came from the Fortune 500 company. A year prior they were about to go through a merger and had to hold off on hiring. They appologized and said that they would like me to join the company but realized that I was qualified for the Senior Executive Admin role but would I consider the Executive Admin role (one step below)? Thinking 80/20, I thought I liked the company, they were upfront and honest with me so, yes. I met with the Executives I would support and started a week later. I liked the job. It held a different kind of responsibility. Three months into the job, the Chief Administrative Officer called me into his office. He told me that the President and CEO really liked my style and that I would be replacing his current admin. My start date was the next week.

Along with everything you've read or heard about a company, consider the 80/20 rule, as there is no perfect job out there. You might just land what will make you happy. Good luck!