Tag: Do your research

Research the company – could you show your knowledge of its values? 

Researching a company before applying for a job or conducting business with them is crucial to understanding their values and culture. In researching the company, you will find its mission statement, memorize it along with company values, and anything else you see of interest. 

Use their website and any articles you can find about them to better know their plans, what they advocate in their policies, and how others see them.  Also, know what their customers think of their products. 

Know what negative thoughts people have of them. You will not use this in the interview; however, knowledge is power. 

By doing your research, you are ahead of all the other candidates who failed to do so. Being able to talk to the interviewers in their words will set you apart as someone who knows the company and wants to work there. 

Do You Align

In our day and age, our technologies, education, and attitude towards individual freedoms allow us to be, and to do most things we wish. If we want to be rich, there is a way to do that. If we desire to have a particular lifestyle, we can do that. If we wish to live in a specific area of the country that is indeed possible. Our freedoms and abilities have led us to this point.

Now I have a question for you. Between what you want and the way you act towards obtaining that desire, do you align? There is quite often a difference between passion and action. If you really desire something you work towards it. The work can sometimes be hard, and occasionally you have to give up some things to gain others. Yet, in the end, you can usually find your way to the goal you initially set out to do.

The real trick is you have to work at it. I know some people who become rich by taking what they can set aside and invest that money into stocks or mutual funds. Others buy and sell precious metals or other commodities. Others work hard at other passions to get to where they want to be.  These people are working towards a goal. If they are smart and work diligently, they stand a chance to reach that goal.

If your desire is wealth, and your plan to get there is stopping by the Quick-Mart on the way home and buying a lottery ticket every week, you might still get rich. It might take 2.9 billion tries to do so though. At three dollars a play you could pay up to $9 billion to possibly earn $500 million. In this case, your desire and actions look as though they may be significantly out of line.

I am a large preacher of research. Figure out what you are passionate to accomplish and while researching that path, ask a lot of questions. For each item you have, research qualified answers. Talk to people who are professionals or specialists in whatever you are trying to find out.

Friends, relatives, and fellow workers will always give you advice and hearsay, yet how much of that is true, and how much of that is good (or malevolent) intentions? If you’re going somewhere or planning to do something you need to hear from the people who have done it, not those who have excuses why they could not.

Will getting from where you are now, to where you want to go be easy? Probably not. And, that is okay. Since when has anything really worth striving for ever been easily obtained? Do your research. Do your work. And stick with your alignment.

Thank you for being with me today. I hope to be with you again tomorrow.