The MOTIVE not the MOTIVATOR

Have you for once ask yourself the major reason behind doing things that you do. Well, for me it a critical question i asked myself every now and then. This has a major role in achieving success. Success is championing a cause which once greatly believed in either failing ow working. Therefore in an attempt to pursuit a cause, one of the major step is for one to have a self conviction about this cause and clearly define its meaning and what it stand to achieve to humanity. Any service that it intention is not going to add to humanity is a selfish service.

The reason why everyone exist is to render service to support humanity, be it personal or collective responsibilities. Sincerely speaking most of the things that human develop interest in doing is not all about self gain or driven by profit and therefore there should be need to understand the differences between the motive and motivator

Motive is defined according to dictionary as "a reason for doing something" while
Motivator is an incentive awaiting a result or proposed for getting something or a person that motivate others to do something, a person of action or a goal getter.

Most of the time i have found out that the motivator set people in action to get something done though but does not put the person in the right mind for getting such a thing done. The most important thing is to communicate the motive behind achieving a task to people and buy them in rather than proposing a propelling action or strategy that will set them in motion.

Someone will ask why?. from research, it has been proved that people can freely follow and get things done in right mind and achieving great result when they have been feeling or sense of belongingness  and people get bored when they are asked to do things which does not allow demonstration of any intellectual capacity and seems manipulating.

How will this help one to get better in his or her carreer?
Having the foreknowledge of this will always guide you in delivering your best whenever you are assigned a task, a project or given a cause to champion. It will enable your to focus on the target not the disturbance.

This is HOW it works

I have been on a paid job for a while and the same complaint I kept hearing people giving each and every time i engaged them concerning their present employment. They are never satisfied with the current pay and position. They need pay rise, they want to be promoted, they really expects the best to happen.
I have changed job four time and I had only written application letter for my first job. Now the question is "How have i been able to move from the first job to the fifth without writing application letters. One thing i found out since my first job was this, no matter how difficult a position and the deliverable of my posts had proven to be, i had always put in my best not minding the challenges, behaviors, acceptability, environment and other distraction around me. And I have been able to record countless achievement on that simple fact. severally I have been called by people both subordinate and superiors asking me how i have been able to keep the momentum. This has always been my respond, I am not working in those position but rather have decided to become someone more important than my current level. I DAILY CONSCIOUSLY WORK TO BECOME A BETTER PERSON. IT IS NOT ABOUT WHAT THE JOB CAN PAY YOU BUT ALL ABOUT WHO YOU CAN BECOME ON THE JOB. Because that will determine your success, readiness and qualification for the next desired position and pay.

PREPARATION FOR JOB INTERVIEWS:- HOW TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT MATTERS

Now that your resume has spoken for you and employers are eager to meet with you in person. Let me be the first to congratulate you. Let us take this little time to examine the key information that employer is preparing to know about you and this is your chance of convincing them that you are better than others and should be considered for the position. They will test you in all or more of this areas, the genuineness of your bio-data, your employment history,  your leadership skills and capabilities, your areas of strengths, weaknesses and achievements , your ability to relate and work on a team, questions related to your field knowledge and skills, and lastly your future ambitions.

Firstly, you have to prepare yourself to the extent that for everyone you meet in live you have something good about yourself to either tell then or be willing to sell to them. Remember that your service to any organization is a value and the remunerations you get in return are the compensation or exchange for the value you are giving out. Take your time to write about yourself, rehearse it as if you are already facing the interview panel. I am not saying you should cram note or words.  Share your personal values with them and how you are using those values to guide your living. Be choosy of your words because definitely the first question is going to take a form like Can we meet you?  Or Tell us about yourself or How can we meet you?  One thing you should bear in mind is that you have supplied them information about yourself and this is what they are going to use as a reference to all other things that you are going to say about yourself. Mind the way you respond because effectiveness of your communication skills will be tested.

They are so interested about the reason you want to leave your current job and are ready to ask you for such reason.  Please don’t tell them the short coming of the organization you are leaving. Rather concentrate on your skill level and how you would love to put into practice new things you have learnt and how you would want higher responsibility. Remunerations also should not be the centre of the reason you are leaving your current employer. Tell them about new skills that you have acquired and how it will be very relevant to the job you had applied for. This is about the value you are going to add to the organization.

Prepare to answer question about your past experiences, projects handled and challenges faced and how you are able to overcome them. This is a measure of your strengths and weaknesses. Do not attach all the success to yourself because your team capability will be tested. Try to use words like us when talking about projects executed. Be bold to tell them about your past experiences that are related to the job you applied for and tell them challenges which you have gone through  in the past, don’t forget to describe the methods and approaches used in solving those challenges. Tell them your weaknesses in the past.  Don’t forget to tell them about how you identified them, worked on them and have now come out of it. It is a way of testing your level of sincerity. Your personality traits are important to them and will be seen from your strengths and weaknesses.

Another very key area of interest is when employer demand to know your salary expectation. Don’t be quick to answer this else you might be short changing yourself. Tell them the difference in the job responsibility while comparing the demand on your current level with the job you applied for and let them know that there are remuneration pattern for different job classes or levels which you belief their organization should have. Try to research about the pay level before setting out for the interview because sometimes interviewers will compel you to mention an amount.

You will be asked about your future ambition. Let this review everything you put together on your career objective in your Resume. And let them know you are an ambitious person. Tell them the growth plan you have and your career ambition but not in an exaggerating form that will make them consider that you will soon change job if you are employed.

Interviewers may ask you about your knowledge of their establishment and the impact of your role.  Be smart to access their website and read about their product and services and rehash your job requirement so as to know what your services will focus on.

Dress smartly and let your dresses color and combinations match each other. Your appearance has points allotted to it. For more on your appearance read my post on “Appearance Matters”

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Productivity: the way to career success

Each day may seems passed away without you achieving your set targets because most people spent time trying to work hard instead of working smart. A lot of people really put in their best into making sure results are achieved but has not discover the best way to make working enjoyable with less effort and yet achieving the best results. This is going to be our area of discussion today. Highlighted below are keys to working smartly and achieving great results.

Split target into tasks: every set target is achievable if only it could be translate into tasks or activities. Example: I want to increase my daily earning to $10,000 is an example of goal or target but this does not show HOW? Instead I will say, as an online marketer, I will increase my sales to from $8,000 to $10,000 daily by

1. Adding extra ten customers to my present customer everyday

2. Increase my product promotion by 10% daily

3. Get feedback and improve on customer complain ASAP

4. Increase my advertisement rate from 10 sites to 12 sites

And so on. By this the target has been broken down into activities that can be handled individually to achieve the primary set target.

Priorities your tasks: from the above list of tasks, we can proceed in eliminating those that are not going to produce result. We can also give them preference in order of execution. This makes it easy for us to deal with issues according to order of productivity and impacts on our time. Therefore make calendar on daily or weekly or monthly basis showing order in which your listed tasks will be implement. Make a list of alternative methods or preferable procedure or means by which the tasks will be done with less time. Always be conscious of time in all your planning. Attach time to your list in order of execution. This will ensure you focus on the things that will make you a star.

Have a deadline: the essence of time fixed to your tasks is to be able to measure your performance, therefore follow up with your timing so as to be able to adjust your efficiency and responses. Do not be too flexible in task timing adjustment. Remember time adjustment is an automatic ways of kicking out some of your set target. This will affect your overall efficiency at the end of the day.

Use ASAP instead of WIP: Let your task list be display under a title ASAP (As soon as possible) rather than WIP (Work in progress). It send a signal of urgent delivery into your brain on sighting it as your move on with your daily activities. Try as much as possible to deal with issues immediately and if new tasks pump in into your schedules first consider its urgency, priority and effect before attending to it.  If need be reschedule but never make it a habit to be postponing tasks.

Be organised: do 5S, mark out positions for your accessories. Keep your table tidy and organise your cabinet and files, make them easily accessible so that you save time looking for documents. Throw away whatever you don’t use or need.  Categorise your mailbox, label your folders and arrange the well.

Plane phone call: list the calls to be made alongside in your to-do list so that you do not waste your precious time on phone. Know who to call and calls to receive. This could cause distraction and steal away your time.

Hope this is helpful.

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How to write an attractive Resume

Resume is a document aim at revealing your capability in terms of knowledge, skills and experiences required for a particular job. I have warmed against the use of static CV for all types of job opening that you are applying for. Each job is never the same in terms of requirements from employers. Your resume is the first meeting point between you and employers. It is one of your key selling points.  

Resume should be maintained at one page or at most two pages, remember that you are not the only candidate applying and employer have limited time to view these resumes. Take a good look at the job requirements and fine tune your resume to show the required knowledge, skills and experience that the employer is looking for.

Make sure you have knowledge of the position you are applying for. And if it is close to your field and it required more information, look for more information on the key responsibilities listed in the job requirement.  

Below is the key information that should be given attention to when writing resume.

Personal details: this should show your name, and how you can be contacted.

Career Objective: Tell the employer about the success you are bringing into their oragnisation if you are given the chance. Do not compose a weak objective statement. Take your time to draft a mouth watering objective.

Skills: use this space very well in stating all the skills that you processed in a well formatted way. Review the job requirements and add additional skills that will give your resuming attention based on what employer is looking for

Educational history: tell them your highest academic qualification which is also the qualification required in the job requirements unless otherwise stated.

Courses attended: tell them about the courses that you have attended that are related to the job opening.  Be smart to briefly highlight the importance of such courses.

Experiences: Take your time to fill in at least three out of your work experiences. Dwell much on your current position. Note, you have to describe your activities results in details. Project undergone should also be mentioned. Tell them what you have accomplished while on those job positions than focusing on your routine activities.

Simplicity: no one is interested about the number of colour, lines, border and painting you give to your resume. Make it neat and simple in nature. Do not copy templates that will not suit your information.

Lastly keep details of the jobs that you have posted your resuming for because this will help you prepare better whenever you are invited. Visit company website to gather as much as information about them and prepare questions that you will also want to know about the establishment

Click on the below image to have a view of a simple but loaded resuming

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Dare to be different

Have you seen a man that is diligent in his work, he shall seat among kings not among mere men : Biblical principle that works.

No employer is ready nowadays to hire liability. Therefore if you mean it and you are ready to go for it, then you have to prepare for it.  I have heard people talking about job security.  There is never anything like job security anywhere. The only security in any job is YOU. Doing what you are called to do or delivering your KPIs in right quality and achieving the expected result at the expected time consistently is the only way to remain on a job. If not employers are eager to change people that are perceived to be a liability until the right person with required qualities or requirements is seen.

Ask yourself these questions.

What is that that am so exceptional in doing?

Is it that this that I love doing that am doing?

Am I passionate about the career that I choose?

How many other things do I do well that I have not pay attention to?

For you to be successful in your assignment or to deliver exceptional quality service required of you by your employer, you have to demonstrate high level of skills, exceptional knowledge and great habits in the course of delivering your duties. This is different from eyes service. Eyes service is trying to impress people in a false way. This will not last if really it is not in you. Believe me, people will soon find out that you are only making it up.  As leadership is learnable so are skills and characters. Recognize your gifts and leverage on them to become exceptional. Pay attentions to other things you do that unconsciously that are value added and develop them to becoming ingredients to making your job simple and easy.

I know many would have read Malcolm Gladwell book titled “Outliers” in which he examines the factors that contribute to high levels of success. There is come to a conclusion that stars are not born but takes practice to attain perfection. Your success is a function of how easy you attain perfection in what you choose to be known for.  My submission is for you to adopt the ten thousand hour as the golden rule.

Look back at when you started your career journey from and be sincere to answer yourself the question that if you have power to change the hand of the clock, will you have choose another career? If you are already on the right career path, congratulations. All that is left for you to do is to take advantage of the technology and swift up. Rev up the engine of your career by taking online courses, attend seminars, read books that are peculiar to your field, make friend with people that knows better than you do, get a mentor in all areas of your life. But if not, it is never too late. Until a man is fulfill in his heart then he is fulfill and successful in life. The best time to correct the future is now.

Lastly, dare to be different, aim to be on top always and make up your mind to be the best in anything that you do. This is the only way that guarantees you success in your engagements. Do it to the extent that if you are suddenly wake from sleep to come and solve a problem, the solution should be readily available in your heart.

 Be a solution provider not a trouble or problem inducer.

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Appearance matters

Let it keep ringing bell in your hear until it enters into your subconscious mind that 'HOW I DRESS IS HOW I WILL BE ADDRESS'

I witness where a very rich man dressed shabbily and entered into a banking hall demanding to see the bank operation manager. initially he was refused and he started making noise that generated to security manhandling him before the Operation manager later showed up.

The point from the above is that he is being treated in that manner because of his appearance. We need to continually work toward excellence and perfection in all that we do.

i saw someone going for an interview putting on fitted evening dress and put on a cowboy cap. it might look very fine but it does not suit the occasion that he is attending. every occasions have its unique dress code, most especially a formal setting.

most people lost job opportunity just simply because of the way they appear at the interview room.

Do not put on what your friends put on because it goes well on him/her but try to find out what fits you. the more you seek for help the better you become. for me people that dressed nicely attracts me. learn colour combination so as to avoid colour mixture(riot).
Are you a fat, slim or average sized person? that is not a problem. talk to designers or fashion advisers, they are out there to make you look good and smile when you look at yourself in a mirror.. looking good is a big business you know!





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