The Job Search Pays Off
The job searcher is sometimes reluctant to spend time or effort on the keys required to find a job; like a professional resume, a cover letter, a job search strategy, or a networking plan. Read on and you'll see that these investments can have a big payback for you.
Your career can bestow huge rewards, such as wealth, esteem, power, fame, satisfaction, and pleasure in the work itself. Your career is where you exercise your talents and showcase yourself. It is, or can be, a major route to fulfillment. That's because your career is you, to a large extent. It consumes the largest part of your waking hours and shapes your habits of thought. It's part of your definition.
That's why having a professional resume and mastering job transition skills are so important.
Transition skills matter almost as much as job skills themselves. The better you become at them, the faster and higher you rise. So they greatly repay the investment of time and thought. Yet because no college has a Job Transition Skills Department, and few even offer a course in the discipline, ambitious people tend not to study it. That's a serious error in today's world.
You may not realize exactly how much a successful job transition is worth to you. Most people don't.
It's easy to get a general idea. Let's say you act astutely and move up from a $200,000 job to a $300,000 job at age 45. You likely have 20 more years ahead. Assuming equivalent annual pay increases and promotions, the difference between the two tracks is $100,000 x 20, or $2,000,000. That's how much a single, well-focused job search may change your life.
And it's just the beginning. For with higher position come greater bonuses, stock options, and retirement benefits, as well as status, impact, and contacts. The move can easily be worth $4 or $5 million. It can be worth even more.
And note that this example takes place at the height of a career. At age 25, the benefits are much greater, because they have more time to multiply. The earlier you rise, the higher you go.
So what to do? The ancient aphorist Publius Syrus said, "No one reaches a high position without daring," and the statement is as true today as it was in corrupt Roman Empire he lived in. The daring requires courage, but mainly against negative emotions within. You simply have to aim high, prepare thoroughly, and be willing to risk failure. The rewards are enormous, far greater than in his time, and you can achieve them.
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