Overcoming The Challenge of Getting a Job

One of the hardest things to do is taking on the pursuit of getting a suitable job. Solving this problem is what a majority of recent graduates (myself included) are caught up in. And when the chorus among those who have access to suitable jobs is "everywhere is tight" it can seem doubly difficult to go from being without a job to securing one. ‎



For the purpose of this BasicPulse entry, 'getting a job' points to the host of activities required to go from having little-to-no monetary source to having a reliable one. This includes starting and running one's own enterprise to profitable ends and/or seeking to win and keep a suitable role in an already established enterprise.

A few weeks ago, a friend and I had a conversation about the difficulty of getting a suitable job. When I quipped for his approach to solving this problem he laid out the common one: He had sent his resume to a number of interesting companies and he was now waiting for their response. The thing is he - and this was the bit that scared me - has been waiting for two years. I found this scary because I was four months into waiting to hear from the interesting companies I had sent my own resume and the possibility of having to wait a whole year seemed larger and close to impossible to bear.‎

For a majority, going from jobless to with-a-job takes time. This is a given. However, people who exist within the period between jobless and with-a-job (the waiting period) can be split into two categories: 

   1. Those who strategize
   2. Those who execute



Everyone who seeks to get a job can said to be involved in designing paths of action to attain the end - they strategize. (My friend from the earlier example was involved in a popular strategy, one that can be worded: submit your C.V to as many interesting companies as you can.) But there is a subset within this set of those who strategize: those who execute. 

It is at this point making a distinction becomes important. For this purpose, let's call "those who strategize" strategists and let's call "those who execute" executives. The distinction is this: strategists and executives execute - that is, they both carry out actions - but to a greater extent, in comparison to strategists, executives are keenly interested and invested in the results their actions produce. Executives are ruthless about the results their actions produce. And when a desired result fails to come from an established course of action they re-design the course to attack the problem with fresh strategies.

‎One reason exists for the divide that separates strategists and executives.  Cal Newport, best-selling author of Deep Work, put it in simple terms: Executing is more difficult than strategizing. Put another way, it can be easy to know what-to-do but it can be a challenge to know how to do what to do and it can be an even bigger challenge to go about executing the how-to-dos one has found for the what-to-dos. 

For the pursuit of getting a suitable job - as hard as it may seem - it can be beneficial to be aware of intricacies that inform the difficulties of the pursuit, especially those that interfere with delivering desired results. It can be difficult to cross over from strategizing to executing, and the difficulty it presents isn't always obvious. But for hard important pursuits it is important to make the cross over. It is important to be aware of tendencies to remain fixed in building strategies, to ensure that doing so is matched with the ruthlessness of executing them. In the previous BasicPulse entry, an important question that can be worded as follows sufficed: How does one go about doing remarkable things with the life s/he lives? Making the apt balance between being a strategist and being an executive may just be the solution - even when the remarkable thing in focus is something as ordinary as getting a suitable job.

Enjoy!



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Post Author: P. W. Uduk 
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