How To Get A Job In The Corporate World

Getting started
Creativity or the lack of it has contributed to what we now understand as unemployment. Often times you find people making so much noise about the fact that they cannot find a job even after completing school. In the corporate world, finding a job is not about the size of your C.V. It all depends on what you can offer. There is the popular notion that to get a job you have to know one or two influential people or bribe your way through. This notion has made many young people reluctant to go in search of job, especially in Nigeria.

Our society has grown beyond the point where people should get stuck in the crowd all because they do not have an income. There is the constant roar of ‘no jobs’ everywhere you turn. Most people blame the government; some blame other people who they feel should have given them a job through their connections. For others superstition and outrageous beliefs stand in their way. Dwelling on all of these will not give you a job. All you need to do is sit down and think.
Make the conscious efforts to look inwards by eliminating all the external factors to assess your options. Think of what you can do. How you can apply yourself. Then put yourself in the position of the company, organization or office that you would like to work with and be honest. Would you employ someone by simply looking at what is written in a bulky C.V? Or what someone can actually demonstrate.

"The best way to get into the corporate industry is to familiarize yourself with what is obtainable in such circles. Find out everything you need to know; how they work and what they are interested in, and with the help of a research, do a SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunities and traits) analysis. This sort of information allows you to enter the corporate industry in style."

Note the following tips

Arm Yourself
A SWOT analysis gives you the power to decide how you want to make your contribution to the corporate industry. To solidify your position, however, draw up a proposal on any key aspect of the particular corporate body you are interested in. your proposal can choose to outline ways to improve, a new concept for a product or service, an expanding prospect or opportunity or an area where a competitor or rival body is capitalizing on. Any aspect you choose must be backed by solid and verifiable facts not just theories.

Present Your Findings
With your findings under your arm, go to the corporate head or board and confidently table your discovery as outlined in the proposal. No corporation will turn you away after going through what you have. To do that will be rejecting a golden opportunity or exposing their corporate butts. Pardon my pun. Because they know that you can do either of the following- go to a competitor with the information you have or sell the information to the highest bidder. Either way you will not loose.

Negotiate On Your Terms
The first two tips will have a company, organisation, firm or office eating from your palm. Now is the time to choose how to get rewarded. But do not get too greedy by overdoing it if the objective is to work with that corporate body on a long or short term. Reach an acceptable compromise that will be of mutual benefit to you and that corporation.

Establish Trust
Once an organisation or company accepts you on their team, your first call is to show them that your loyalties lie with them. Do not play them for fools by betraying them because to do this would be risking a lawsuit, eventual bankruptcy or worse. A wounded body will do more than the proverbial wounded lion. No one would be any good as a corporate leaper or cast out by the entire corporate universe.

Settle Down To Honest Work
You owe it to yourself and the corporation to which you serve on its team to apply yourself to their affairs with purpose for as long as it takes. Your attitude, conduct, dealings and philosophy must reflect a genuine cause. If and when your contract expires or the need to leave arises, the corporation will be reluctant to let you go. The point to dwell on is that you would have established a partnership that will forever benefit you.

These five tips are useless if you do not make the effort or take the necessary steps to be creative or adopt research into your life’s goal. You can walk the dusty streets or town roads from dawn to dusk every other day and still be without a job. The job you seek will always be a few steps away from you. If you want to wait for the perfect opportunity I can guarantee you it will never come.
Most, if not all job seekers have written more applications than they care to count, gone for countless interviews and taken attitude tests and back home to wait forever for the confirmation call or text massage that will mean they have been hired. If you have not had enough of job-search related disappointments you have made your choice, a choice that will probably drive you out of your mind in the shortest possible time. But if as an alternative you decide to take this article seriously then congratulations. You have graduated into the corporate arena and your name has been stricken from the millions of names in the labour market’s register.