No matter who you are or what the specifics of your job might be, your work inevitably features ups and downs, good days and bad days, elements of fulfilment and frustration – with more of the former than the latter if you’re lucky. So, the obvious question to ask is this. Is there a way of making sure that you get more positives than negatives in the long run, despite the inevitable hassles that come everyone’s way?

Can you incorporate a success strategy into everything that comes with your job that is effective over an entire working life? This is the challenge of winning the workplace game. So long as you understand the rules of play, I think there is, and I want to use this Vocation Cast to offer you some ideas on how to do it.    

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There’s a work-search technique that hardly anyone uses, but one that’s guaranteed to propel you into the top league of job hunters if you put it to good effect. There’s nothing complicated about doing it and it’s a simple concept to get your head around. Would you like to know the secret to perfecting any kind of interpersonal encounter during a job search, from informal research meeting all the way through to full-blown hiring meeting and salary negotiation? I’m guessing that you would.

Practice makes perfect, as the saying goes, and perfect practice massively contributes to an ideal job-search outcome. In today’s Vocation Cast I’m going to tell you about a sure-fire strategy to implement a perfect practice routine that will leave you brimming with confidence and ideally prepared for whatever your next job hunt throws at you, and that’s sandbox practice.

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There’s lots to think about when you launch yourself into a fresh job-search project. What sort of work do you want to do next? How will you find job opportunities that match all of your needs? What’s the best way to get in front of recruiters and to then convince them to hire you? That’s just a few of the questions to answer but there are a hundred and one others. You can easily become overwhelmed so to give yourself the best chance of success, you need to concentrate your efforts where they’re most likely to pay off.

How do you cover all of the core job-hunting bases whilst keeping your plan as sleek and organised as possible? What are your priorities, the most essential parts of the job search that you should focus on? Is there a way of maximising your job-search return on investment? Yes, I think there is and in today’s episode I’ll explain what my strategy would be if I were in your shoes.  

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