Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve

Chapter 76. Learn from the Past, Build Toward the Future

As we said earlier, it's critically important to demonstrate value and deliver tangible results. You can increase your value to a new employer and improve your chances of success by answering the following questions:

• What skill areas can you improve upon in your next job?

• What do you need to learn in order to work more successfully?

• If you were previously laid off or downsized, what could you do differentlyto make yourself indispensable in this job? Acquire new skills? Develop a better attitude? Take on extra work? Show more initiative?

• How will you keep close tabs on the trends in your industry and your field?

• Do you know where you want to be in one year, three years, and five years?

• What can you do now to help you ultimately reach these career goals?

Do your own analysis, listing your lessons learned from the past and outlining new career approaches and initiatives that you'd like to implement moving forward.