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Don’t just go for ‘anything that’ll pay a wage’, stop and work out what you’re truly great at, and what you love, and then start asking: ‘How can I get paid to do this?’

find out what ‘employable’ means to your target employers

Physical: appearance and habitsMental: knowledge and skillsEmotional: how to communicate and focus on the real winSpiritual: what can you bring to the party that will make the world a better (and more productive) place!When you’ve nailed this, you need to start finding out information about organisations in your target area and sector, and what their issues are (that you might be able to help them solve)

Then work on your CV and interview skills

consider: ‘what’s the win for this organisation?’: ‘What can I help them stop, start or continue doing, that would help them get more of the wins that they want?’

Do research on your target market and organisations

where do they do well, and where do they fall down? What are their competition doing? What’s happening in the market … now … and in 5 years time? What do their customers think? What customers are they missing? What sort of people would they be looking for? And why?

then, you can approach them to see how interested they might be in talking with you.

Employment is synergy: if it fails to be synergy in any way, then it’s going to be short term at best.

the ‘employee’ and ‘employer’ should both find their situations significantly enhanced by teaming up and working constructively together. Together everyone achieves more!

You need to sharpen your saw to be considered worth employing

You need to continually sharpen your saw while employed

You need to continually sharpen the saw outside work

No one in their right mind employs a blunt saw, but sharp saws make getting results much more rewarding for both parties.