Checklist to Getting Onboard

Whether you are trying to secure your next position or wanting to ensure your greater value to your current employer, consider this list of factors (from “Career Planning and Placement Today”) that will probably knock you OUT of the running………

1. Lack of proper career planning
2. Lack of knowledge of field of specialization
3. Inability to express thoughts clearly and concisely
4. Insufficient evidence of achievement or capacity to excite action in others
5. Not prepared for the interview or aware of current business issues
6. No real interest in the industry, just biding time
7. Narrow location interest
8. Little interest and enthusiasm
9. Overbearing
10. Interested only in best dollar offer
11. Asks no or poor questions about the job or business
12. Unwilling to start at bottom or to grow in a position
13. Makes excuses
14. No confidence or poise
15. Poor personal appearance

……and to think that this book was published in the late 1970s. It only proves that as much as things change, many things stay the same. How many can you cross off the list? All, I’m hoping. If not, you now know better on what to work on yourself.