Getting the Job of Your Dreams

Hello, I'm Brian Tracy and welcome to this program. This is the greatest time in all of human history to be alive. No matter what's going on in the current economy, there have never been more opportunities and possibilities for talented people in our economy than exist today. The only real limits on business success today and personal success is the ability to attract and keep good people like yourself. More people are becoming financially successful today as a result of doing an excellent job and being paid well for it than ever before. Your job is to participate fully in the new economy and to realize your full potential by getting and keeping an excellent job and then moving upward and onward in your career for the rest of your working life. I've personally worked in 22 different companies and industries. I've worked my way from a laborer up to the position of Chief Operating officer of a $265 million company. In my various positions, I have not only applied and gotten a series of jobs, but I've also hired numerous people for numerous positions in a variety of different industries, performing a variety of different functions. In addition, I've worked as a consultant, trainer and advisor to several hundred corporations throughout the United States, Canada and worldwide. In this capacity, I've consulted and advised extensively on hiring practices and given insights and ideas to many executives that have enabled them to select the ideal people for their organizations. Over the years, I've trained many thousands of men and women on the subject of creative job search and taught them how to get good jobs, get better jobs, get paid more, and get positioned better for rapid advancement. Every graduate of my creative job search programs went on to new or better jobs, sometimes within days of completing the seminar. So in this program, I'll share with you some of the very best ideas, strategies, methods and techniques ever discovered for helping you to get a great job in any economy. By applying these ideas and methods, you will put your career onto the fast track. So let's begin. Step one. Take control of your career. This is the starting point of career success and maybe the most important point of all. Most people wander out into the job market, go on interviews, and then accept the best job that is offered to them. But this is not for you. Your goal is to take complete charge of your career from this moment forward. With the rapid changes in the workplace, the average person starting work today will have 14 full time jobs lasting two years or more and as many as five full careers over the course of their working lifetime. To weather these storms of lifelong career change, you must be proactive, not reactive. You must take complete control of your career and guide yourselves into those industries and jobs that that can give you the very best pay and the greatest opportunities for the future. Remember, you're only as free as your options. The more skilled you become at getting the job you want, the more money you will make and the more choices you will have. The more you know about how to get the job you want, the easier it will be for you to move upward and onward with each step of your career. Now, most people start their job search by answering newspaper ads, sending out resumes, going onto the Internet, or using employment services of some kind. But the fact is that 85% of all jobs available in your community right now are not advertised. They don't appear anywhere. They're not posted on any employee bulletin board website, nor are they to be seen in the newspapers. They are hidden and waiting for you to discover them like buried treasure. Self directed job search enables you to take complete control of your career and your life. It puts you behind the wheel. It makes you the architect of your own destiny. It gives you a sense of control and develops a positive mental attitude. The starting point of taking control of your career is to begin to view yourself as self employed. See yourself as the president of a company with one employee. Yourself. See yourself as having one product that you sell in a competitive marketplace, which is your personal services. See yourself as 100% responsible for your life and for everything that happens to you. Remember that no matter who signs your paycheck, you are always self employed. The biggest mistake you can ever make is to ever think that you work for anyone else but yourself. You are always on your own payroll. You're the president of your own personal services corporation. Every day, every week and month, you go into the marketplace and you sell the services of your own corporation to the highest bidder. As the president of your own personal services corporation, you are completely responsible for marketing yourself and for presenting yourself in the marketplace and in the most attractive way. You're responsible for production, for producing the highest quality and quantity of services of which you are capable. You're responsible for quality control, for doing excellent work at whatever is entrusted to you. You are responsible for research and development, for continually upgrading your knowledge and skills so that you can do your job better and faster. You, you're responsible for finance, for organizing your financial life in such a way that you accomplish your financial goals. You are the president of your own company. This attitude is the starting point of getting the job you want, not only in the short term, but for the rest of your career.