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.