What must be Held in Mind and Done in Job Hunting 第6页Regardless of obstacles, I still achieve my goal.
I am generally driven to meet my goals.
I am good at maintaining high levels of performance.
I have a sound ability to set long-term goals.
I readily give up immediate pleasures to achieve my goals.
Skill 10-Flexibility: If you score highly in this skill, you are independent，able to integrate new information into what you are doing and adaptable. If things go wrong, you are quick to come up with a work around that will do the trick. Flexibility is simply the ability to think on your feet and revise plans when circumstances change. People who are low in flexibility are put out when necessary changes crop up and are unable to deal with rapidly changing circumstances.
I consider myself to be flexible and adaptable.
I can always see different ways to attack problems.
I take unexpected events in stride.
I can see situations from the perspective of others.
I am good at thinking on my feet.
Skill 11-Observation: People who are highly skilled in this area are typically self-reflective and good strategic thinkers. If this is you, you will probably be able to stand back and take a bird's eye view of the bigger picture rather than getting caught up in the passions and emotions of the moment. You will probably also be able to figure out multiple solutions to any problems and analyze the pros and cons of each option before selecting the one that will work best. People lacking in observation skills will struggle to understand the implications of their decisions. They will shoot from the hip and make the same mistakes over and over.
I easily recognize which tasks are a good fit for me.
I routinely evaluate my performance and enhance it.
I step back from situations and think objectively.
I enjoy strategic thinking and solving problems.
I review situations and look for ways to do better.
Skill 12-Stress Tolerance: Some people thrive on stress and harness it to perform better. Others find that stress makes them fall apart in a time of crisis. If you are skilled in this area, you will have a high tolerance for pressure and remain emotionally steady in a crisis. You will be confident you can cope with any changes that are forced upon you. If your skills in this area are weak, you will constantly feel under pressure and start making dumb mistakes.
I enjoy working in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
Pressure helps me perform at my best.
Jobs with lots of unpredictability appeal to me.
I am comfortable taking risks when the situation demands.
I like jobs that have no set schedules.
Once you have gone through these questions, find the two or three skills where you have your highest scores and the two or three skills where you have your lowest scores. You can then mark your own executive skill profile on this chart:
12 Executive Skills
Self-restraint
Working Memory
Emotion Control
Focus
Task Initiation
Plan and Prioritize
Organization
Time Management
Achieving Goals
Flexibility
Observation
Stress Tolerance
Fig.1 12 Executive Skills
2.2.2 Personal strategies-play your strengths, avoid your weaknesses.
Once you know your strongest and weakest skills, you have two choices. You can either leverage your strongest skills to maximum benefit or you can start trying to improve your weakest skills. Experience has shown over and over that the best approach is to capitalize on your strengths and leave your weaknesses to take care of themselves.
2.2.3 Seek opportunities to exploit your strengths
Your executive skill levels probably will not vary much over the course of your career. Instead of trying to improve on your weak areas，you should spend more time leveraging and fully exploiting your strengths. You should seek situations and circumstances where your strengths will come to the fore. If you can do this consistently, you will place yourself in a position to excel.
So how does this work in practice? There are several things you can do to try and stay in the areas where your skills are strong:
■ Try to delegate the tasks you are not good at, so you can spend more of your time working in highly productive activities that harness your strengths.
■ From alliances with people who have complementary skill sets-who are strong in the areas you are weak in. By forming a partnership, you may both be able to generate impressive results.
■ If you do end up having to do something that taps your weakest strengths, keep a positive outlook by focusing on the magnitude of the potential loss or the potential gain from that activity. Remind yourself that there will be consequences, so you need to be doing the best you can, even if this does not come easy.
2.2.4 Minimize the negative effects of your weaknesses
As mentioned, your greatest gains in productively will come by playing to your strengths. Having said that, it also seems sensible to do everything you can to minimize your weakness. In this regard, there are a few things you can try:
■ Admit your weaknesses openly and candidly-rather than trying to sweep them under the rug. Understand how your weaknesses will manifest themselves in practice and do all you reasonably can to address those situations.
■ Keep asking for feedback on an ongoing basis-on both your strong points and your weaknesses. Welcome suggestions for improvement or ideas for development with open arms. Consider whether more training or experience in weak areas would be helpful.
■ Look out for any flow-on consequences from your weakest skills and do what you can to correctly identify them. For example, if you are low in flexibility, you might be able to volunteer to keep the written minutes for your team meetings. That way you can listen to everyone else's ideas before putting your own suggestions forward. By doing positive things like that, you will be able to make things work even in areas you have no natural strengths in.
■ Do all you can to improve in your weak areas-at least to the stage where you can do enough to get by. This may be a matter of breaking a task down, identifying any triggers for poor performance and creating new habits that will be better. Something as simple as training yourself to count to ten before responding if you are weak in self-restraint may be a workable idea.
3 Job hunting in foreign enterprises
3.1 Why Chinese college students choose foreign enterprises when looking for jobs
People hardly ever refer to today’s college students as“Heaven’s favored” anymore. Almost before the students have the time to savor the happiness of getting into college, the pressures of employment in China’s era reconfiguration pushes them into an even more intense competition. For those who intend to find a job in the future, what kind of enterprise is most sought after?
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