Job Search Quotes

One theme that runs through many [job hunting books] is just plain harmful: the advice to "just be yourself." Wrong. Remember that first day on your first job, when you went to get your first cup of coffee? You found the coffee machine, and there, stuck on the wall behind it, was a handwritten sign re

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.

Good questions are those that show that you not only want the job, you are prepared to knock the ball out of the park once you have it. So ask, “What would a successful year in the job look like?” or “What did you most value in the person who left?” You’ve done a Google search of the field and the company, of course, and one of your questions could be about emerging trends. Interviewers love it when questions relate to them and their accomplishments (“I’ve heard you made some exciting changes recently. What has the outcome been?”).

Come right out and say you want it: “It’s been great hearing you talk about the position. I’d love to work here, and I think I could do a terrific job for you.

When you create a résumé, for instance, it’s not about listing every single role and responsibility you’ve had. Instead it’s about highlighting accomplishments that all ladder up to your overall positioning, expressing a clear point of view. You’re taking control of the impressions you make by doing the work for them.

They want you to be the solution. Whoever is waiting in there for you—interviewer, examiner, casting agent—is hoping you are the answer to their search. Our fear or self-doubt can persuade us that those waiting in the room want us to fail, but that means you carry that closed or victim energy in. People get into the negative habit of preempting the worst-case scenario as a misplaced way of protecting themselves. Try to walk in instead with an ‘I can be the solution to your problem’ attitude. Not arrogant, just open. The rest is out of your hands, but the positivity in itself is empowering.

During your job search, you must also be networking as much as possible, attending events, talks, lectures, and conferences where you’ll meet people you can add to your contact list.

Every day you should also be checking job boards to track positions as they open up. In addition to the job boards on company websites, use public job boards such as Monster, Indeed, LinkedIn, and any specialty sites. There’s also your alumni website, etc.

Action is the spark that ignites potential.

John Long

The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia

Bernard Kelvin Clive

Do not be discouraged by the disappointments you meet. Don't ever loose hope because, you missed opportunities. Disappointment and missing opportunities are all essential components of life. They give us the reasons to reason and they teach us the best lessons in life. They give a clear distinction between the wonder and the wander. When you meet disappointments, ponder! you may be on the great bath to that great appointment.Instead of being disappointed by disappointments, find the 'this appointment' disappointments show you. Instead of crying over missing and missed opportunities, let missing and missed opportunities miss you

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.

Miles Anthony Smith

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

Miles Anthony Smith

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

Miles Anthony Smith

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Miles Anthony Smith

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

Miles Anthony Smith

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

Miles Anthony Smith

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

Miles Anthony Smith

Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.

Miles Anthony Smith

Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.

Miles Anthony Smith

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

Miles Anthony Smith

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

Miles Anthony Smith

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.

Miles Anthony Smith

Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

Miles Anthony Smith

Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

Miles Anthony Smith

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.

Miles Anthony Smith

Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: "Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here." And my grandfather's response was: "Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you." It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

Idowu Koyenikan

The success of your job-hunt dependson you—with a little help from your friends. You must be in charge of it. You must plan it. You mustdirect it. You must know what works and what doesn’t work. Your job-hunt is by its very nature a“self-directed search.

Richard N. Bolles

Just because you can’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You’ve got to change the way you’relooking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.

Richard N. Bolles

Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job.

The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

Bo Schembechler

He who loves his job, will own it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.

Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Jay Samit

Earn your confidence, nurture it, then help to build it in others.

you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not waste your life, in search for a job.Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When you work on what you love, you have the best job in the world.

We yearn for opportunities, we pray for opportunities and we seek for opportunities. The good news is that we meet opportunities. The bad news is that we miss the opportunities only to come to a later realization of missed opportunities.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now.

Sophie Kinsella

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson