GETTING A JOB IN THE CORPORATE WORLD

Getting started

Creative Strategy and the lack of it has contributed to what we now understand as unemployment. In the corporate world, finding a job is often not about the size of your C.V but what you can offer. 
There is this popular notion that to get a job you must have connections to one or two influential people or bribe your way through. This has made many young people reluctant to go in search of jobs, 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’. Most people blame the government; some blame other people, who they feel should have given them jobs through their own connections. For others, superstition and outrageous beliefs stand in the way. Dwelling on the above will certainly not give you a job.

You need to make the conscious effort to look inwards, and attempt to eliminate some external factors or internal conflict first. Think of how you can apply yourself. Then put yourself in the position of the company, organization or office where your interest lie and be honest. Would you employ someone by simply looking at what is written in a bulky C.V? Or what he/she can actually demonstrate.

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

Now 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 chose. Your document may outline ways to improve, a new concept for a product or service, an expanding prospect and opportunity or an area where a competitor or rival body is utilizing more. Any aspect you choose must be backed by solid and verifiable facts, not theories.

Present Your Findings

With your findings, go to the corporate head, and confidently present your findings. In ideal situations, no corporation will turn you away after going through what you have. To do so is to reject a golden opportunity or expose their corporate butt. 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.

Negotiating On Your Terms

The first two tips will retain the attention of a company, organisation, firm or office. Follow through and decide how to get rewarded but do not get greedy if the objective is to work with that body for the long 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, your first call is to show them that your loyalties lie with them. Resist the temptation to play them because it would be risking a sack, lawsuit, eventual bankruptcy or worse. A wounded body will do more than the proverbial wounded lion. understand that no one would be any good as a corporate leaper or get cast out by the corporate universe.

Settle Down To Honest Work

You owe it to yourself and your office to concentrate on all associated responsibilities with unrelenting purpose. Your attitude, conduct, dealings and philosophy must reflect a genuine cause. If and when your contract expires or the need to leave arises, they 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 and 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 that 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 aptitude tests only to go back home to wait forever for that confirmation via a call or massage that says you are hired. 
If you have not had enough of job-search related disappointments, you have made your choice, one 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 would most likely be taken off the labor market’s register.