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 making money online 3
How to become rich making money online 3
This is the third and last instalment for this series on making money online basics and ideas that I will be writing. I may add more instalments on various themes related to making money online in future, but currently this is the end of my research into this area. As I've mentioned several times, this is an "ideas for money making" blog and isn't intended in any way to sell my products (anyways I have none and besides I'm not selling things). I will try to cover everything that I haven't in the last two posts in this one and summarise and conclude my findings and research into the very interesting topic of making money online via advertisements. After this series I will be looking into other financial devices such as CDs, mutual funds, investment analyses and the like. I also intend to do some interview skills, job hunting skills, questions to prepare for interviews, CVs, ideas on how to find a job or find a suitable occupation and the like. (I got all these ideas from Yahoo Answers, because many people ask these questions. This shows that there are many possible avenues to find information and resources anyways, and besides I should give my readers and customers what they want! Hoho.)
Here in this post, I will be talking about SEO. And common sense. And research. And then I will offer a summary of the entire series that I wrote on.
There is a famous blogger called "Grizzly" who has found out a method of making money online, which was basically outlined in my article. I based most of my research into his epic blog, which literally had posts 3000 words long each time. I reiterate that there are many ways of making money online, but Griz's ideas in his "make money online for beginners" was my main inspiration and source, because personally I felt that it was way better than trying to be an A list blogger (which I am not) and that the system he proposed somehow made more sense for me, and if it worked for him, then it might work for me as well. In short: that's why the focus of my articles has been to make money via advertisements on webpages as a central theme.
In any case, SEO was one of the things that he dealt with in his blog and the key idea is that if one wants to make money with a website, be it a website selling things or a blog, one has to make the site rise in the rankings and appear on any major search engines. This is the key to success in making more visitors read and go to your webpages. Of course the key question is how. How do we get Google to index the webpage? This will get a bit technical, so bear with me while I drill out the basics.
Writing articles that are original and new will give value and send your webpage higher in the rankings. The older your webpage, the better and more established it is. Keywords are words that people type into the search engines in order to find your blog or your website, and hence, they are very important in enabling google to find your site on the Internet. Backlinks, links that people use to find out, or in other words, links that point from other websites to your own website, are the final and most important way in which you can rise up the internet rankings. All these add up to become SEO, which is basically search engine optimisation, where in a sense, you optimise your site in order to make it easier to find on the Internet. The logic is clear and undeniable - just be found more easily, and you will make more money from advertisements, and it's as simple as that. The difficulty of course, is in actually doing it.
Common Sense
Next I would like to talk about common sense. There are many online offers to make sure you that get SEO or you get placed high in the rankings. This seems to be a good idea to invest your money in IF obviously you make more money than it costs to pay for the high rankings.
There are a few ways to reach the higher parts of the ranking and appear on the search engines. One is to literally buy your way there, and buy your position. That will cost you money, and as I said, some common sense is needed, and also if you want to turn professional and really earn money online, then you need to invest a lot of time and effort. The second method is to buy backlinks or join linkfarms, but then again, this might backfire, this might not work, and you still pay lots of money to have it done.
Note that if you want things to be free and not pay any money, you can still make money online, but never huge sums of $5000 a month or so that people claim on their websites, and certainly not $500,000 a year. If you pay money, you have a chance of earning that and it's not guaranteed that you'll succeed either, so stand warned. It'd be very natural that the people selling the products would claim that everyone can do it and that everyone can earn the money that they can; I don't know if it's true, but do be a bit skeptical of ludicrous claims.
In simple words: use some common sense and look around for alternative offers or different offers or better offers if you really want to invest your money into making money online. Common sense dictates that you invest your time and effort properly and ensure that you buy the needed and right products to make money off your blog or webpage. Common sense also dictates that you visit various sites on SEO, page ranks, Google.com, Yahoo.com, the advertising companies and the online money advertisers, the referrers etc, and all other related websites to find out what you need to know.
Common sense also leads on to the next topic, reading and researching.
Research
Some recommended starting points:
1. Read the earlier two posts in my blog here on making money online and decide for yourself what you would like to do, and how you'd like to make money online for yourself
2. Settle on the time, resources and interests needed - then do some online research by surfing the net
3. Visit all the websites related to the ideas listed above and in my other articles here on my blog - SEO (many sites on that!), Google adsense, TLA, Yahoo, etc.
4. Apply common sense and take out of consideration the sites that you don't need or don't want, or seem seedy or untrustworthy. I am rather skeptical by nature and I would strongly suggest you apply some skepticism to products that people hawk. Skepticism applies here also: you should research on everything I say and not take my word for it, and besides the approach I take throughout this ideas on how to make money blog is to suggest approaches and review ideas.
5. Visit sites and make your decisions after some time. All the best, if you do choose to make money online using advertisements!
Bear in mind also the other possibilities, apart from my focus on making money online via advertisements (by the way, Yahoo offers online publishers money as well, and offers their own kinds of ads that rival googles - there is some oligopolistic competition here I'd say). I list them below to remind you of your various options in this very very vast topic:
Various options and ways to make money online (repeat article)
Do online paid surveys and online polls that companies conduct
Also, there is something related that someone pointed out to me, so I will add it in here: there are some companies that offer online data entry jobs. Do data entry online. I have no idea what these do though, but I can extrapolate from normal data entry jobs, that you get to be paid by staying at home, working from home, and all you do is basically typing. Do find out more about making money online via data entry, and then try it if that is your kind of thing.
Run an online business. That is, sell and buy things on the Internet.
Do free e-books and then later charge for them online, selling e-books to people
Gamble on online casinos (and in some cases, people claim to have a system that can beat online casinos)
Design beautiful websites and blogs and sell them for money
Be an A-list pro blogger and get paid tonnes of money in advertisements, endorsements, articles, etc...
writing essays and writing literature papers and exam papers for students and desperate teachers to download.
Alright. Thanks for reading thus far. This concludes my making money online series in my blog on ideas on how to become rich. Stay tuned for more interesting and diverse financial topics!
