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
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.
Short companion article on Singapore-China investment
Singaporeans Investing in China? Lessons Singaporeans can learn from a young British businessman
In Singapore, the government usually tries to encourage entrepreneurship. The government also tries to encourage locals to invest in China, to exploit the opportunities, as most of the local population can speak fluent Mandarin.
The key lessons that Singaporeans can possibly learn from Kerswell, the motivated and entrepreneurial teenager from the UK who runs an import business from China, are the following:
An ability to take risks. Kerswell took the plunge and went to China despite not knowing much of the language and having only a rudimentary command. Singaporeans speak fluent Mandarin and many even know dialects, and that should put them in a better position, yet the risk-taking element is not present. That needs to be changed. We should emulate people like Kerswell, and local hero Sim Wong Hoo who went to the United States in order to pursue his business opportunities with his sound card.
A wider perspective and a global mindset. There’s something to be said about a British teenager in China. The lessons are that globalisation is not a force to be feared but can be put to huge use, where opportunities can be exploited. Kerswell saw an opportunity to bring some good product from China to the UK, and he did; globalisation and a wider perspective are clearly needed for Singaporeans to succeed in China. In today’s globalised world, success is clearly no longer nation-based alone, and clearly international businesses are the wave of the future. There are many economic lessons that we can learn from this young man's actions.
Motivation and enthusiasm. Apart from the old adage that nothing can be accomplished without enthusiasm, Kerswell has shown that hard work, determination, and motivation and enthusiasm can bring many goals to fruition. He explained how motivated Chinese entrepreneurs are, from his description about their entrepreneurial instincts selling melons. Opportunities can be seized better by enthusiastic and motivated people.
Age is no barrier. As a young person with limited capital, Kerswell did more than survive; he prospered in a business environment. Clearly, there are lessons to be learnt here, and age is no barrier to success. His relative youth and inexperience did not count against him.
To conclude, these are only my own personal opinions, as there are many other lessons that we can extrapolate and learn from Kerswell.
How to get rich, the Nido Qubein mentality way...
Let's get started :)
Anyways, as this blog is all about how to become rich and making money, regardless of age, current occupation, inclination, etc... and I intend to cover every possible angle from small business ideas to NLP to investment principles, especially making case studies of the rich and famous, and let you make up your own mind as to the correct approach for you, it doesn't really matter where I begin.
I'm introducing Nido Qubein today...
http://www.nidoqubein.com/index.cfm
I was watching youtube today when I came across this motivational speaker, Nido Qubein. I honestly think what he says is very interesting, positive and has the ability to change people's lives.
First: making money has to do with a mentality and a mindset, and here, he gives us a taste of how to have the right mindet, mentality and how to set goals, persuade, and so on. The ultimate goal is how to make money, and to do that we need to learn the intermediate skills of persuasion and negotiation and mentality, and the like.
I'm not paid by him or anything, but I was truly inspired by his ideas. Hence, here are some nuggets of wisdom regarding persuasion:
Ten Secrets of Persuasion
Let's look at the way skilled professionals put power into their ability to persuade.
(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.
And also:
Solid Strategies = Solid Success
Success results from a solid strategy.
The first step is to translate your vision into measurable and achievable goals.
You decide specifically what you want to accomplish during the next five to ten years - those are your long range goals.
Next, you break those goals down into intermediate goals - things you wish to accomplish during the next six months or year.
The second step is to break your goals down into achievable objectives.
Objectives add purpose and direction to all your activities.
The third step is to set up your strategies for accomplishing your objectives.
Fourth, you choose each task you must complete each day to achieve your goals.
All these great ideas of his are available on his website and on youtube.
Worth taking a long hard look :)
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