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<strong>Prepare</strong> <strong>For</strong> <strong>Success</strong><br />
First thing in the morning, every morning, review your weekly plan and prepare a fresh todo<br />
list for that day. You will always build today’s To Do List by starting with the leftovers of<br />
yesterday’s, but then add today’s new tasks. This will lead to you adding more tasks, or delaying<br />
certain tasks, or increasing time, or reducing time to work on things. Each and every day, set up<br />
your daily tasks and give rough time estimates for how long you will spend on each assignment.<br />
Make sure you review your task list at the end of every day and congratulate yourself on<br />
everything you have ticked off and then make a plan for how you are going to complete the<br />
outstanding tasks tomorrow.<br />
Bad Workers Blame Their Tools<br />
As well as a diary, you should ideally have home access to a computer, Internet and printer, if you<br />
possibly can. While library computers and facilities are sufficient for job-hunting, the opening<br />
times of libraries are now being reduced, so they are not as dependable as they previously<br />
were. So buy, beg or borrow (but don’t steal!) a computer if you possibly can. It doesn’t need to<br />
be top of the range – the work you will be using it for will be fairly basic in today’s computing<br />
terms – Internet access and writing Word and Excel documents will be your key activities.<br />
There is no question that you will be more efficient on your own computer and having home<br />
Internet access will mean that you can spot and respond to opportunities at the earliest<br />
opportunity rather than frustratingly waiting for library opening hours to prepare your next<br />
application.<br />
Don’t forget the capabilities of your smartphone either – after all they are just small computers<br />
nowadays that can make phone calls. We won’t go into detail on what you can do with your<br />
smartphone as there is such a broad range of operating systems apps and networks but take the<br />
time to investigate your phone’s capabilities. Remember; I Got Hired is all about joined up jobhunting<br />
and a phone can be the perfect glue, especially if you are running IGH Pro on it!<br />
Although you may not regard it as ‘equipment’, preparing two sets of interview clothes is an<br />
essential. It is highly unlikely that you will get to an offer without attending two interviews, or<br />
assessment events and you won’t feel comfortable wearing the same clothes twice!<br />
Events You Will Need To Be <strong>Prepare</strong>d <strong>For</strong><br />
– An Overview<br />
Throughout the five modules of I Got Hired TM you<br />
will find advice, guidance and industry secrets,<br />
supported by the full range of I Got Hired TM tools,<br />
to make sure that you are fully prepared for<br />
every event, meeting, call or document you have<br />
to deal with in your job-hunt.<br />
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