How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 7
In this series here on Ideas on How to Become Rich, I am covering a series on how to get a high paying job in order to make money. The aim of this website is of course on ideas on making money, and one of the best ways is to get a good job. The articles covered so far on "How to become rich - Skills for getting a job" have been on articles one to five in this series so far:
1. What job do you really want?
2. Interview skills, tactics and advice for getting that high-paying job
3. How to write an excellent CV that will earn you that good and highly paid job
4. How to get further education which will help you become rich eventually
5. Mentality and attitude for the job and for becoming rich
6. Negotiation tips and tactics
This post will deal with negotiation tips and tactics.
Why do we need to negotiate in order to become rich? Donald Trump and many other rich and powerful businessmen know the answer, and that is because negotiation helps you get what you want. If you want to become rich, and convince other people to give you what you want, then you need to learn the skills and ideas of negotiation to make money, promotion opportunities and more. If you negotiate with your boss for a pay rise cogently, you can make more money and be happier with yourself for the successful negotiation. If you can negotiate well, you will be paid more for your value and contributions to your company, as you can win and earn more contracts for your company.
Nido Qubein's ideas and advice on persuasion can be summed up and analysed as:
Ten Secrets of Persuasion
(1) Be positive. (2) Prospect. (3) Prepare. (4) Perform. (5) Be perceptive. (6) Probe. (7) Personalize. (8) Please (make them happy). (9) Prove. (10) Persist.
Nido Qubein's ideas and advice on persuasion are good, but can be improved by looking at the key elements of other general resources on negotiation skills and techniques.
1. Try to think win win and let both sides have what they want - this approach is always better than thinking in terms of losers and winners. For instance, when negotiating for a higher salary, always justify why you need to earn more money with the value, services, responsibilities and additional benefits you bring to the company that justifies you being paid more money.
2. Always try to have some sweetener to the deal, if it a bad one. For instance, tie one issue that is weaker with another issue that you can give, and that will make the other side happier (at no cost or little cost to yourself).
3. Negotiate with confidence and strength, and not from a position of inferiority - if in such a bad situation, try to make things to your advantage and turn the issues into one of your strengths. For instance, always make the deal in your favour and advantage, so that you can use your confidence and strengths.
4. Sometimes be prepared to walk away from a deal so that you can get either the deal that you want (they come running after you to offer you money or that pay raise) or you can get some better offer elsewhere (if the negotiations don't work out, at least have a plan B).
5. Research and read up more on negotiation skills and tactics. More ideas on deals and deal making can be found in Donald Trump's books, as I have read his Art of the Deal (1987) and his How to Get Rich (2004). Donald Trump seems to be the expert and boss in this area of negotiation and persuasion. Do read his works and judge for yourselves.
This concludes the series on "How to become rich - skills for getting a job". May you get a good job that pays well, and maintain it and keep it so that you can make money via salary increases, promotional opportunities and ever expanding job opportunities and benefits. Take care. Cheers!
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 7
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 6
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 6
Mentality and attitude
To become rich, one must not just have the right paying job, which is of course important, but also have the right mentality towards the job and life and making money. This post on Ideas on How to Become Rich is about the right mentality and attitude towards the job, promotions, career opportunities, and making money. I have a earlier post on attitude and more by Nido Qubein (click here to go to Nido Qubein) in Ideas on How to Become Rich, where I wrote about persuasion and success strategies. This is after all an ideas blog, so it is full of various ideas on making money, from finance to investment to making money online. In this series, to recapitulate, we are talking about how to get a high paying job in order to become rich.
Making money and becoming rich is also partly a mindset, rather than merely getting a good job. This post is therefore about having the right mindset. I am going to discuss a few elements: have confidence, be assertive, think positively, and continuously improve yourself.
Have confidence. After you get the job and work at it for a while, when it comes to asking for more pay and getting a higher salary, be confident and go for it. Have confidence in your behaviour and your mind and don't shy away from difficult tasks, difficult decisions and difficult questions. If you have to ask for higher pay, then ask for your deserved higher pay.
Be assertive and firm, but not pushy. There is a fine line between being pushy and being assertive. Being assertive is part of being confident. Why should you deserve a higher pay and more money than your colleagues? Why should you make more money than your colleagues? You need to justify yourself. Your mentality should be: I am worth more than X dollars and I should get paid more because of my talents and skills - I can do this and that, etc, and I have the right attitude and mentality. You may not think so, but having confidence and the assertiveness that goes along with it will enable you to make more money and get promoted faster, or get better tasks and jobs in your department.
Think positively. There is little point looking confident and looking assertive, if you don't think you will get that pay raise or that increase in your salary. Ask for more money with the correct mindset and think that you will get it and believe in it. Making money is partly based on this key aspect of your attitude... if you think you can make more money and actively do it, you will; if you think you cannot make more money, and actively or subconsciously seek to avoid making more money, then you will never improve in your job, because you're afraid of being promoted and getting more responsibilities. The pay in a job is not commensurate with your workload, but with your responsibilities and decision making levels. To make more money, get more responsibilities, and to get that, you need to think positive and have confidence and self assurance. (Some people think that NLP might help you in becoming more self confident. If you're interested in NLP, so look around and find out more about it. It might work for you.)
Get self-improvement books or self-improvement strategies to help you improve yourself. This just means lifelong learning is important... have the right attitude towards learning and always improve yourself. You can always improve your mind and your attitude. You can even improve your money making skills and strategies. However, it's not all about making money. There is sometimes more to life than just making money, so self-improvement is just for yourself. And your successful career. Cheers!
The final post on this series will be about negotiation skills and tactics. Some of the ideas will be from Nido Qubein and others will be from research I have done on ideas on how to become rich.
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 5
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 5
Here on Ideas on how to become rich, we are covering a series on how to get a high paying job in order to become rich. The articles covered so far have been:
1. What job do you really want? High pay or good job or both?
2. Interview skills for getting that high-paying job.
3. How to write an excellent CV that will earn and land you that high paying job.
4. How to get further education which will help you become rich.
5. Mentality and attitude for the job and for becoming rich.
6. Negotiation tips and tactics.
For your convenience of navigation, here are the links here to the other articles before this post on How to get further education online to become rich eventually.
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 2
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 3
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 4
OK, why is it important to get education and become more educated if you want higher pay and make more money? It is very simple.
1. Educational qualifications are needed for occupational promotion - you will need a masters at least for reaching some managerial positions.
2. In addition, additional educational qualifications can help you make money not just by promotion, but also because certain jobs command more money. Finance, money and banking, investment, and economics are all apparently boring subjects, but they help you make more money because they can get you jobs that pay more.
3. Educational qualifications have been historically proven to be commensurate with salary and pay, which means that the higher your education, the higher your salary and the higher your pay. It's that simple.
How do you get better education, and especially if you do not want to go back to a physical campus? The current solutions to that are distance learning and online learning. Distance learning is when you study at your own time partly at home and partly in an educational institution. Online learning is when you learn entirely at home and from the Internet. This is my Get Your University Online link, if you wish to have a look and compare universities and courses.
As an example, my mother has an MBA. She started out working as a teacher, but the moment she received her MBA from a distance learning school (in Singapore it's called SIM - Singapore Institute of Management, I think), she later became promoted to head of Cambridge International. This shows clearly that further education is good for promotion opportunities, which helps you make more money, while enjoying and loving your job and what you do. You get paid more and you get to enjoy a high paying job.
By the time you have chosen and decided for yourself if you prefer making money or having a less well paying job that is more interesting; have done an excellent CV / resume; have finished your interview with a flourish and with great skill, you should be ready to maintain your job not just with a better education, but also improve on your mentality and attitude to keep that job and to keep on making more and more money, and also know some negotiation skills and tactics. The mentality and attitude aspect will be explored in my next post, and the negotiation skills in the following post after that, so stay tuned! Cheers!
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 4
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 4
In this post right here on "Ideas on How to Become Rich", I will be discussing how to write a good CV. This "How to become rich? Skills for getting a job" series is intended on this Ideas on How to Become Rich website to deal with the following topics related to getting a good job:
1. What job do you really want? High pay or good job or both?
2. Interview skills for getting that high-paying job.
3. How to write an excellent CV that will earn you and land you that high paying job.
4. How to get further education online which will help you eventually become rich.
5. Mentality and attitude for the excellent job and for becoming rich.
6. Negotiation tips and tactics.
Currently, the first two posts have been done, deciding what job you really want and the interview skills needed to get that good paying job in order to make good money with a high salary, all while doing a job that you love.
This post here deals with how to write a good CV (Curriculum Vitae) or how to write a good resume. A CV is a resume or a job application letter, if you like, that enables the employer to see if you are the person that he wants to hire and employ.
How to write a good CV/ How to write a good resume
Here are some tips on my Ideas on How to Become Rich blog on how to write that excellent CV/ resume that will get you that high paying job that you enjoy doing...
There are a few common ways of writing CVs/ resumes (subsequently referred to in this post as CVs instead of resumes, for terminology's sake) and a few common types of resumes. Here are some types of CVs and how they should be written in order for you to secure that high paying job.
1. Chronological CVs
2. Skills-based CVs
3. Academic CVs (not covered here in this website because it is mainly for students who wish to get a postgraduate degree and not a high paying job or an occupation)
How to write a chronological CV
1. You should try to make it clean and slick and get to the point.
2. Include a covering letter and make sure you get to the point.
3. Keep it short, simple and sweet - but by short, the content must still be there, and short does not mean a few sentences.
4. Check it many times and do not make mistakes when writing your CV.
5. Write about your education first and foremost, remembering to put down all the dates in clear chronological order. This is after you have put down your particulars at the very top.
6. Write about your work experiences next, remembering to put down all the dates in clear chronological order. This CV is known as a chronological CV, remember?
7. You then add your achievements, especially connected with your work. This will give you added value and add money to your job.
8. Give your references at the back if you feel that it is necessary.
9. Proof read and good luck to you! Sometimes you need luck to get that interview which will allow you to get that high paying job.
How to write a skills-based CV
1. You should try to make it clean and slick and get to the point.
2. Include a covering letter and make sure you get to the point.
3. Keep it short, simple and sweet - but by short, the content must still be there, and short does not mean a few sentences.
4. Check it many times and do not make mistakes when writing your CV.
5. Write your particulars and your career objectives and wishes.
6. Write down your key skills and evidence associated with them. That means, state your skills and then give good examples of your skills.
7. You then add your achievements, especially connected with your work. This will give you added value and add money to your job.
8. Give your employment history and also your academic or job achievements.
9. Add in your references, if you think that is necessary. Do you have good referees?
10. Proof read and good luck to you! Sometimes you need luck to get that interview which will allow you to get that high paying job.
In summary:
1. keep it clear and to the point
2. remember to have a good covering letter (these practices should be known to you and all I am doing is just reminding you of what you know, but may have missed out)
3. you need to know what type of CV you are writing - is it chronological or is it skills-based? Note that you can merge the two sometimes...
4. you need to check and proof-read your CV many times
In addition, check around and look around for more advice and also get someone experienced to help you with your CV.
Once again, a simple reminder: why is there this series on how to become rich by getting a job? Getting a job is one of the most common and practical ways of becoming wealthy and rich, especially if the job pays well and is something that you love and like to do. These posts here on this series are therefore parts of the links and chains that enable you to reach that goal. These are ideas on how to reach that goal of getting a job. You need a good CV and good covering letter. Then you need to ace that interview, and do all the other activities associated with landing a good and high-paying job. I would say, get more research and look around for more advice in order to learn and improve, and all the best. Cheers!
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 3
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 3
Here is what we are going to cover in this series on "How to become rich? Skills for getting a high paying and excellent job":
1. What job do you really want? High pay or good job or both?
2. Interview skills for getting that high-paying job.
3. How to write an excellent CV that will earn you and land you that high paying job.
4. How to get further education online which will help you eventually become rich.
5. Mentality and attitude for the excellent job and for becoming rich.
6. Negotiation tips and tactics.
We have covered "What job do you really want?" in the last post and evaluated the distinction between a high paying job and a job that does not pay as well, but is something that you would love to do very much. It would be much much better if one could actually get a job that paid well and was comfortable and enjoyable, of course. This blog is about ideas on how to become rich, and one of the best ways of becoming rich is to earn money by having a good, well-paying job that allows you to develop and learn as a person and still receive a high salary. My focus is always on ideas on how to become rich.
In this post, we will be covering interview skills that will help you land that job you've always wanted. These are ideas that may help you land that high paying job, and are commonsense tips and ideas that will definitely help you. Remember to always practise your interview skills. Good luck for any interviews that you may have to do and will do, cheers!
Interview Skills and Tips
Before the interview
1. Do your homework about the company. What does the company or organisation do? What are the products and how long has this compnay already been in business? Do you know anything about the company's history? How much money does it make a year and how much money is it known to pay its workers and managers? Are there any annual reports about this organisation and its structure and its finances that you can have a look at?
2. Do some reading - general reading. Many interviewers expect you to have a good command of basic knowledge, commonsense and some basic knowledge of current affairs. Why would you want to hire someone who didn't know what was going around the world today? Read newspapers, read magazines and get some interests so that you appear informed. Try not to do last minute preparation but instead prepare your understanding of the company and your understanding of the world's current affairs over a period of time before your interview.
3. Think to yourself about what job you are willing to do, why you are applying for this job, what the remunerations are and how much are you going to be paid. Will you take a lower salary if that is what is offered? Or will you stick to your guns and offer explanations and ideas why you should be paid a higher salary and are entitled to more money than that offered by the interviewer or the HR department?
4. Dress nicely and professionally. There are many people who don't do this, surprising as it may seem. Dress to impress and the money/ salary/ promotion and the job are yours.
5. Prepare some questions and some answers. Try to preempt. Always also prepare some questions that you can ask them in case they ask you: "What questions would you like to ask us?" etc. It is important to think about money and how much they are going to pay you, but do not ask salary related issues so quickly and do not ask about salary related issues when they ask you if you have any questions! You can always ask about pay and bonuses and extra funding later, once you have landed that high paying, excellent job.
During the interview
1. Speak with a clear and confident voice.
2. Answer all questions to the best of your ability and have no fear. Be sure to try to answer all questions including the really hard ones. Do not panic.
3. When asked about salary or remuneration or pay, be sure to be firm and ask politely and tactfully as well about it.
"How much am I going to be paid" or "I want a lot of money" is not very tactful, but firm and assertive only. You want something firm and tactful, convincing and polite. "Based on my qualifications, skills set and training, I believe that I can do this job for X dollars, because that is what I am uniquely worth given my skills and expertise." That's how you can ask for more money and a better salary.
4. Do be polite and don't say anything negative or bad, or any vulgarities.
5. Maintain a good posture, and breathe normally. Don't panic.
6. Thank the interviewer or interviewers and look them all in the eyes confidently and clearly. Remember to mind your Ps and Qs and always say "thank you" and "yes".
7. Also, if they ask if you have any questions, always ask some good questions. You have prepared for them beforehand, so just shoot off some very good questions to show them that you have thought about what you wanted to know and what you wanted to say.
After the interview
1. Call them up if they have not replied. Be calm, friendly and professional.
2. If you get the job, congratulations and do remember to stick to it properly and get yourself promoted in your career of your choice. Do read the other posts here on this blog for ideas on negotiation, thinking skills, attitudes and the like. Cheers!
3. Be sure to ask questions like: when do I start? What is the dress code? Who do I report to? etc. Be professional.
More tips and ideas to come on CV writing skills... It is true that you need to write a good CV before you can get the interview, which allows you to audition for the high paying, high salary job. However, the most number of queries I get about jobs and salaries are about interviews, so I write about interview skills and tips first, before going on to write about CVs, which are extremely important but apparently less famous and less regarded. My personal advice is that you ignore CVs at your own peril if you want to land a nice, good, high paying job that you enjoy and love. Stay tuned!
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 2
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 2
Here is my post on career advice for getting and landing that very good job that pays well and is great for you. Remember that we will be looking at various ideas on how to become rich by selecting and obtaining a good job in my Ideas on How to Become Rich blog, such as:
1. What job do you really want?
2. Interview skills for getting that high-paying job, if you know how to take interviews well then this will be revision for you, and if you don't know how to take interviews well, then this advice will be good for you and will give you ideas.
3. How to write a good CV; similarly, if you are good at writing CVs that will land you your high paying job, then this is mere revision for you, and if you don't know how to write a CV, then this series will teach and give you good ideas.
4. How to get further education online, which will help you become rich because of the promotion opportunities and the skills that you will learn.
5. Mentality and attitude for the job - and besides, mentality and attitude are important in becoming rich too.
6. Negotiation tips and tactics, as all managers, bosses and rich people need to know.
(I do sincerely hope these career and job ideas, tips and advice will help you find your dream job and obtain that career you've always wanted. Whether it makes you rich and wealthy in the process is, of course, entirely up to you.)
What job do you really want? Do you prefer money or leisure, or do you want both?
There are many ways to become rich, and one of the most common and established ways is to get a high paying job that you love to do. That way you can earn money and also enjoy your work, in terms of what you do, everyday. The question is of course: what job do you want?
This is difficult to answer, but the key ideas for your consideration are:
What are your skills and strengths? For instance, I am good at writing and speaking, so jobs that need these types of skills are my cup of tea. You may be good at analytical stuff, and may even have a background in engineering and mathematics. To choose a job that requires you to be very personable and interact with many people will be tough on you, should be introspective and introverted. So it is important to consider your strengths and skills before embarking on any job interviews to get that high paying job.
What are your educational qualifications? You will need a medical degree before you can become a doctor and earn a high salary that doctors command. The problem is that doctors command high wages and get high pay because they happen to have a degree or educational qualification that is very hard to get. If you have not obtained your medical degree or anything of that sort yet, then it is near impossible for you to be a doctor until you get those qualifications. What qualifications do you have? If you have an Economics background as I do, then it might be easier to get a job in a bank, or in some government agency that handles money such as the Finance Ministry or Treasury of your country, and the like. Do you have the required educational qualifications to become rich through a high paying job?
What are the high paying jobs? To become rich, which is the focus of my money and investment blog, you need to choose a job that while suiting and fitting your skills, strengths and educational qualifications, is high paying. This may seem obvious, but several people think that being a teacher will make them rich.
The problem is that sometimes it is true that you have to make a tradeoff decision between choosing a job that is noble and good and something that you really like, against another decision of choosing a job that pays well. Being a teacher is a noble profession but it will not pay so well as another job. Let's look at it more closely:
to be a teacher you will need some general education, a patient attitude, and a very good character. These qualities fetch you a lower wage as a teacher but a higher wage as a banker, accountant, lawyer and so on. A banker, accountant, lawyer and several other jobs also need the same skill sets as a teacher, and they pay more. In addition, why be a teacher when you can be a professor or lecture at a university? That means you invest a few more years in education, but it means that you get substantially higher wages to teach! So choose a higher paying job if you want to become rich.
You can usually find a good job that allows you to do what you like and want to do, and that fits your skills and your education, and that also pays well and allows you to become rich comfortably.
If that is not possible, and you do have to make a tradeoff, then I'd say: you need to ask yourself which is the more important thing to you - money or your career?
If you cannot find both money and career, and you have to choose one, I'd say choose money over the job, because your life will be better and you can always get to love the job later. But if you don't think that's possible, then choose what you love because then money wouldn't matter to you. If you loved doing a job so much, like working for some charity or some lowly paid volunteering position, then that job is beyond money anyway, and while you don't get pecuniary rewards, you will get rewards of another kind.
Do more research. These are all merely my ideas and ideas that I have gleaned from my research. Conduct your own research, get more opinions, and find out what job you really want, and which jobs pay the best. I have collected the top paying jobs and salaries for 2007/2008 (and for later years too) here on this post, because that might help people look at which jobs are getting the highest pay and have the chance of making you rich. Don't take my word for it - check it out, and do your own research. Make up your own mind and choose wisely. Look around my website and review all my articles, and look around the Internet for more ideas and more advice on your potential career path.
Take care and cheers! In the next post I will deal with some interview skills and tips for you to obtain that high paying job that you love and earns you money.
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job
How to become rich? Skills for getting a job
Introduction to the series on skills for getting a good job
A cursory glance at Yahoo Answers immediately reveals that many people who want information related to jobs will usually ask a few related and common questions. What job should I do to make money or to make myself happy? Sometimes that question even goes: should I go for a job that makes me money, or should I go for a job that pays less but makes me happy? (I don't see why you can't have both actually, and get a job that makes you both rich and happy. To me, the dream job would make me both rich and happy. ) What interview skills do I need to land that good job or to land that perfect occupation which I have always dreamed of? How do I write a good or perfect CV? Questions of that nature usually crop up.
This series of articles here on Ideas on how to become rich will therefore focus on the simplest way to make money - to get a good and well-paying job. One of the ways to make good money is to get a well-paying job.
But in order to do that, many things have to fall in place. Right, this is an ideas blog on how to make money and how to become rich, so I will not focus on the simplest and most obvious parts to getting a high end job. You will need some form of education and obviously the job that you are applying for must be something that you can do, i.e. if you have an arts major specialising in literature, applying to be an engineer at NASA is not what you might want to do, honestly.
Here are the skills for getting a good paying job, so that you can make good money, that I intend to cover in my Ideas on how to become rich blog:
1. What job do you really want? Do you prefer money or leisure, or do you want both?
In section 1 in this series here on my money making blog, I will be suggesting ideas and thoughts that you might want to consider. Making money is very important to me, and making money is also very important for a lot of people all around the world. Yet sometimes getting a job is not just about the money or the financial remuneration, but it is more of a self-actualisation or fulfilment kind of thing for certain people. I think one of the more key ideas here is that you have to decide for yourself: if you think that there is a dichotomy or contradiction between being rich and being happy, which would you choose? And also, if you don't think that there is a problem with being both rich and happy, then what kind of job would you want, that would maximise your "money returns" and your "happiness returns"?
2. Interview skills for landing that great job you always wanted
If you decide that making money or getting a great job is your kind of thing, then you need to work on your interview skills! I deal with this before dealing with the CV writing skill, but that's because many many more people want help in getting a job via interviews. They can write a good CV and they have got an interview, but are simply unable to sell themselves effectively, and an interview that should have gone well may turn out bad because of poor communication skills or lack of confidence. Impressing potential employers with a well written CV will not save you if you do not have good interview skills. Here in this section I will be writing about tips on interviews and how to get that dream job that you have always wanted.
3. How to write a good CV/ Tips on writing a CV that will impress potential employers
To get a good job, you will need to pass an interview, but before that interview, you need a good CV. How does one write a good CV that will attract potential employers and entice them to give you a good job? This section deals with CV writing skills and how to portray yourself postively and the like.
4. How to get further education online
OK, I will be honest and say that there is of course a lot of vested interest here. Currently I don't even have a Masters and here I am suggesting to people that they should go for a Masters or some form of further education to improve their career opportunities. This is because I also write an online education blog that researches and investigates various universities and online learning courses and online degrees. Nonetheless this vested interest that I have does not detract from the fact that one of the best ways of making more money is to get a high-paying job, and one of the best ways of getting that high-paying job is to be well educated. Masters holders and MBA holders in particular get very high paying jobs and are valued more by their organisation. The strength of an online degree or distance learning course is that you do not have to attend a university full time and can work and learn at the same time. More of that to come in future posts.
5. Mentality and attitude - once you get that job
This will deal with the correct mentality and attitude that you may want to possess when you get your dream job and get your dream salary. Also, it will suggest ideas on how to get that promotion, how to move up the corporate ladder and how to get pay raises, and basically, how to improve your finances while enjoying your job and every moment of it.
6. Last section: negotiation.
Negotiation is related to money making, deal making, promotions and much more. Negotiation is also related to mentality and attitude and is one of the major things that you will be facing in your career, and in many social and career situations. Be sure you know many tips and ideas on how to negotiate successfully and get what you want! Also, negotiation should be used in conjunction with all the other vital skills that you should have mastered and at least got to know well: interview skills; CV writing skills; mentality and attitude.
All said, stay tuned to learn about ideas and tips on these important skills that you need to land that dream job that pays you well. A job that pays well and is something that you love to do is one of the best ideas on how to make money enjoyably.
