No One will Give You a Job Simply Because You Need a Job! (Part One)

“I applied to so many job ads yet I am not getting hired”.  This statement is recursively being stated by the majority of fresh graduates not only in Oman but also in 99% of the world’s countries.   Given our daily interaction with job seekers through our job portal www.jobibex.com we can confidently say that the solution lies within the job seekers.  Consequently, the system, also known as the job market, has little to do with the issue. 

In order to solve your problem, hopefully by getting a job, you need to stop blaming everyone around and focus on yourself.  Just admit that the problem lies within you and you need to take some corrective measures and wait a little while to harvest success.

Now repeat to yourself “the universe will never give the needy and I will not get a job by telling recruiters that I need a job”.  To illustrate this issue think about how recruiters desperately chase those who already have jobs and neglect those who are unemployed whether or not they have experience.  Like in any relationship in the world, recruiters avoid the needy and will never consider them unless a low-end job is on the stake.  Only charitable persons would like to entertain the needy.  You surely do not want to become a receiver of any sort of charity while you have all the qualifications and the qualities of becoming a charitable person yourself.  Nature repulses the needy, period.

One might argue that freshers, by default, are considered needy as they are currently unemployed.  This is true in many facets.  However, even as a freshers graduating college looking to occupy your first job you need to clearly convey the message that you are not needy and you have options.  It is no secrets that the world is full of jobs that require no experience.  Larger corporations struggle every year to absorb fresh graduates with great potentials.  More often than not they are disappointed with the attitude of those who apply for these jobs.

You are probably blinded by the overwhelming propaganda that jobs are only offered to those with experience.  You must have come across that classic cartoon about the fresher’s dilemma who cannot get a job due to lack of experience and cannot get an experience due to lack of employment.  Well, this is not true.  Many major employers are actually interested only in those who have no experience but have proper education and the right attitude.

This analysis is so far theoretical and might shock some job seekers and might be challenged by some others.  Just be patient as in the next part I will show you some techniques that will help you how your negative attitude is denying you from your natural right, being employed.  Please remember that I am not talking in thin air here by out of decent experience given my experience in this field and my interaction with all sorts of employers.