21st Century Jobs seminar this week in Prague

We're very happy to announce that we'll be conducting the first session of the Fall 2010 "21st Century Jobs" seminar in Prague. This seminar will be in Czech, using selected exercises from our book. We know that the way to job success and fulfillment is to first assess yourself: your dreams, goals, skills, talents and accomplishments. This first session will focus on the most satisfactory and significant accomplishments of each participant's life.

Creating your own career

Last week a Facebook friend challenged me by stating that not everyone can choose the job they like and can do best. Sometimes people just have to take whatever job they find, to make enough money to live.

This is, of course, quite true. When I first went to Norway to live in the 60's and couldn't speak the language, I got a job unloading bananas at the docks to earn some money. I later found a better job as a dishwasher.

But I had higher ambitions than washing dishes. I kept my eyes and ears open as I learned Norwegian, met new people with whom I could talk, and became more familiar with the culture around me. I practiced these elements of career development:

1. develop new skills that will help you advance your career.

2. talk with people about their lives, to find out what gaps there might be in the society that could become a job for you.

3. think entrepreneurially, as a job creator, creating the perfect job for the person you know best--yourself.

In a matter of months I was coaching volleyball with the Norwegian national volleyball team and was enrolled at the University of Oslo, on my way to building myself a wonderful life in Norway. All it took was putting some principles into practice and believing that I could succeed.

Why is getting the job you like and can do best so important?

As Woodrow Wilson put it, "We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world". Over the past three decades my wife Sara and I have helped thousands of American and European executives, mid-level professionals, students, career changers and people just entering the job market after completing their Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees to get jobs which match correctly the career goals, qualifications and interests of individuals with specific needs of organizations. As a result, we have found that all job seekers who want to arrive at a job they can like and can do best need to be proficient at one essential task:
Presenting themselves directly to potential employers in ways that produce job interviews and offers.

We have outlined and explained the basic job-search essentials in our 9th book on careers and career development called "21st Century Jobs" in order to help people secure what just about everyone wants: THE JOB THAT YOU LIKE AND CAN DO BEST. This blog, "Your Next Job" is devoted to helping you to better understand how to use our book, "21st Century Jobs" to  your best advantage and get the job of getting a job you like and can do best done as soon as possible. In fact, we are enabling you to have your own system to beat the system.

International Leadership Institute zahajuje nove programy v Praze

Ucelem naseho blogu , "Your Next Job" je pomoci tem kvalifikovanym jedincum, kteri se zajimaji o zapojeni do pracovniho procesu nebo hledaji lepsi misto uspet co nejrychleji v tom, ze najdou pracovni prilezitost, ktera jim bude vyhovovat a kterou dokazou dobre zvladat. Po 20 letech cinosti Institutu v Cesku a na Slovensku rizene z USA je nyni ILI etablovan v Praze. Komunikace na tomto blogu mohou probihat v Cestine a take v Anglictine, Francouzstine, Nemcine, Norstine a Rustine. This is just to let know our FB friends that ILI's programs and activities are now available here in Prague on the full time basis.