Raheel Farooq

Top Skills Employers Seek in Job Seekers

Good books teach you more than what you seek from them. I remember I was reading a book and the author exemplified a point by deviating to something rather off-topic. He said that rich people are rich by their character. If they lose all their assets due to some accident, you would see them regain everything in some time. The poor are poor by their disposition. Even if they win a lottery and gain more wealth than they could possibly imagine, they would end up at poverty again in some time.

Same is the case with good employees. If a man has the merits employers seek, he may fail to satisfy a typical interviewer and yet be able to get the job. On the other, the poor guys with confused minds may accidentally perform well, get the job letter and end up being fired the next week. While a good employee is seeking a job, a good job is also waiting for one at the same time.

I've often found people confused and puzzled about the magic formula that makes somebody easily get their dream job and keep going cool. Here, I'm going to share the alchemy of a being in the good books of your favorite employer. Employers usually have different choices and demands according to the specific roles that you're supposed to play, yet the values discussed below are more or less universal merits of a good employee.

Great Relationships Need You, Not Your Talents

Love, and be loved!

The wise have told us that people are meant to be loved, things to be used. The problems arise when we start loving things and using people. The problems also arise when we start loving ourselves more than those around us who actually deserve our love. This leads to the natural consequence that those people around us, our relationships, also start loving themselves more than us and we are left alone to love ourselves. We deprive our relationships of our love, and they deprive us of their love. Tit for tat!

You may be thinking what loving onself actually means. Let me tell you what I mean by this expression. I have seen people who seem to imply that their relationships are built and maintained on the foundations of their financial strength, social skills, tactics, intelligence, etc. I have a friend, for isntance, who married a beautiful lady of a good family a couple of years ago. He had a great talent of buttery conversations which earned him the love of the lady. He could talk about just everything in the world, and made the lady realize that she was perfect from every aspect according to his perfect knowledge. So, they married. And after just a couple of years, both of them cannot even afford to look at each other. My friend thought his communication skills earned him a beautiful life, and he was right. But he further believed that he could maintain the relationship on this very skill, and here he was wrong.

Strategies for Marketing Your Business on Social Media Platforms

Social media is in... And it's really bad if you're a business owner and can't secure a position for it and are consequently knocked out!

Social media, with the passage of time, is become more social than our real world societies. People are getting more and more distant from their real surroundings and prefer to communicate and share their thoughts, emotions, concerns, affections, fears, greetings, love, sentiments, etc, etc, via online social media platforms. Putting off the discussion of how good or bad it is for us to a later time, let's throw some light on what effects it may have on the business and marketing strategies and how we can harness its power to the advantage of our business.

Social Media - Harness the Power for a Progressive Business

Who doesn't know Facebook? May be a two-years old! But the boost it can give to some business, whether online or offline, is actually known to few. In this case, most of the people out there are not mature enough to understand and utilize the potential of Facebook properly. Facebook, for businesses, is all about getting a good and active fan following who likes your, trusts you and is ready to take an action on your behalf, though definitely for their own benefit!

For an optimal Facebook campaign, you may need to promote your Facebook profile or page both online and offline. Accomplishing that, you may want to consider the nature and behavior of your audience a bit seriously. It is because an understanding of how much they rely on you and what kind of action they may take for you, like buying something from your site, visiting and affiliate link, or mere viewing your new blog post, and when are they most like to be the most active, will help you plan much better. You can decide easily what might be the best stuff to share with them, what the tone and diction of Call to Action should be, and very importantly, when to share what. There are many social media monitoring and strategy solutions out there. You can search Google and choose whatever suits your business best.

Smile - Live Richer

The wise say that we laugh when we see something odd; odd in the sense that it deviates from the norms of society and is not something we are accustomed to. Some say that laughter is an expression of pride; we're proud that we're not the abnormal person. Some others say that it all springs out of the abruptness. We find something odd and it is the unexpectedness which provokes our laughter. All these wise opinions are from people who are called gerontologists. Gerontology is the science of laughter!

But then there is smile. Gerontologists may sometimes be funny enough to laugh at smile as unworthy of their attention. But as far as I can think, despite having an apparent semblance to laughter, smile has little to do with laughter. While you laugh at something because you find it odd, you smile at the same thing when you accept the oddity. You laugh at the abnormal, but smile only when your sympathies are with the abnormality. You may laugh at something that happens quite unexpectedly, but you would only smile if you knew it and got accommodated with the fact.