By: Catherine Sienna

The fast pace global economy made headhunters hunger for promising talents, the good news is, it’s a matter of looking for opportunities. Successful job hunters see their situation as a learning experience.

Windsor who is an engineer finds it difficult to look for a job during the first three months of job searching, he listed his prospects, and the companies which he applied to were already saturated with engineers. He then decided to study market trends where the demand for engineers are high, then he decided to apply for the position he really wants. At the same time he continuously trained himself to update his competence. He got the job and was promoted several times.

A U.N. delegate of foreign services once said, the fast paced turn over rate of people today, here and abroad is caused not by obsolescence but by the capacity and incapacity of persons to be able to give emerging solutions to problems. The challenge for head hunters today is too look for people who are the right man for the job. If you want to be an irresistible applicant there are three important qualities job recruiters look for from their job applicants:

1. Professional Niche. Your niche is discovering what you are genetically engineered to do. How do you find your niche in the market? Many of us have specific inclinations and a number of capabilities, but usually one or two stands out as a professional niche, which can make you irresistible when job hunting. First, write down all the things you really love doing. Second, identify what specific jobs are actually employable; it can be assembling cars, machinery, recording accounts, cooking, financing, or trading. Third, identify in the list what specific jobs are economically salable

2. Passion. The fear of failure is common to everyone. Remember the term “cold calling” on sales. It was called “cold calling” because literally you get the feeling of electricity raging through your veins, the feeling of coldness passing through your stomach to the spine. It is actually the fear of rejection, common to all of us! So if you feel the fear of passing an application or even following up your resume, it’s part of job hunting, what is important is you don’t give it free reign to eat you up. Acknowledge the fear, but don’t succumb to it. The best way of overcoming fear, is identifying exactly what you are passionate about. Lee Iacocca felt the humiliation of loosing his job, when he was fired by Ford. He did have his share of sad moments which proved to be a blessing in disguise, because he found out what was his niche; that is re-engineering ailing companies.

3. Motivation. If you have identified your niche and passion, motivation comes easily because it defies the E.R.G concept of Herlzberg. You will just make it happen. Remember how Bill Gates in his back yard tinkered his way to Microsoft. Sure, he was in another level of looking for a job, he created his job!

In the mean time when you are still waiting for job interviews, look around for part time jobs as long as they are honorable, there is no problem embarking on it. Integrity comes first. Lee Iacocca tried setting up his own machine shop for a time, while he was pondering on things that had happened to him. A Chinese man named Gokongwei was almost hand to mouth existence when his father died, being the eldest, he learned how to walk to school, started selling in the market. His situation was from riches to rags; he became a sales man over night, and found his niche in selling. He is now considered as one of the richest man in Asia.

The motivation comes from your niche, your passion and your sense of urgency. It defies the laws of Herlzberg because you are all fired up. Head hunters are looking for that quality in you, the motivation factor ingrained in your system.

BY: Catherine Sienna

Whew! There are 10,000 job openings and our company clients are clamoring to have their human resource department filled up!

Alice checked her lists of job openings, London, U.S., Singapore, China, India and Philippines. She needs engineers, accountants, agriculture personnel and technicians. She checks her assigned site to see who signed up…

One great difficulty of job head hunters today is the fast turn over rate all over the world. Security is not the byword today but its opportunity and adversity quotient. Gone were the days when people tend to stay in a job until they are 60. These days, people tend to move faster because of globalization of the world economy. Most companies today hire the person they see as a problem solver, a thinker and exudes creativity. These traits are developed as you go through our professional life.

There is a technique to develop these traits, they are: first you have to know exactly what your niche is. That is what you are here for on this earth. These may sound dramatic, but what I mean is, exactly what you really love to do. List all of them in a blank sheet; fill them up as much as you can. Second, identify among the lists what you will not get tired of doing, like gardening, assembling cars, teaching, writing, re-financing, selling stocks or forex trading so on and so forth. Third, zero in those lists, and mark them. Check your training, your aptitude in your lists, and try to see if you have enough training. If you are just starting up, but you think you really have time to learn the ropes, go on. Bill Gates started Microsoft in his backyard, studying by himself, or for some, finding a mentor to help you through can be very helpful. Trade with the skills you have at hand. If you are a banker before, you may consider other skills parallel to your job, like bookkeeping or accounting by contracts. Fourth, marketing your niche, this is actually, posting your resume via net or advertising yourself through this site or via social networking systems. That is why it is important to put a good image via on line because it is one of the most powerful marketing tool ever created. Oh… and don’t forget a good stack of calling cards, just in case you are driving or riding a bus, and meet accidentally a desperate job head hunter, and you might be the answer to her prayers.

Do your best to be optimistic all the time, because pessimism can hamper happy hormones such as serotonin in your brain affecting your creativity and problem solving skills. It’s good to recognize reality, but it is not the end of the world. This is a planet with endless possibilities.

A tip, every time you submit 20, you are assured of 3 job interviews, this is actually using the idea of creating personal resume traffic on line, backed up by statistical studies. Believe it or not a teacher received an offer to be an English teacher of the son of the Sultan of Brunei, and he posted it only on one job site, but hundreds. Gone where the days when you have to keep on re-printing your resumes using a manual typewriter; in case you don’t know a typewriter is the great grandfather of the laptop computer. It’s easy to send hundreds of resumes in one click. Just be sure, to check the resumes you send, you might pass the wrong one.

Lastly, once you become the answer to the prayers of the desperate job recruiter, never forget to strengthen your networking base, to provide you with endless possibilities and job opportunities.