Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Why is getting the job you like and can do best so important?

As Woodrow Wilson put it, "We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world". Over the past three decades my wife Sara and I have helped thousands of American and European executives, mid-level professionals, students, career changers and people just entering the job market after completing their Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees to get jobs which match correctly the career goals, qualifications and interests of individuals with specific needs of organizations. As a result, we have found that all job seekers who want to arrive at a job they can like and can do best need to be proficient at one essential task:
Presenting themselves directly to potential employers in ways that produce job interviews and offers.

We have outlined and explained the basic job-search essentials in our 9th book on careers and career development called "21st Century Jobs" in order to help people secure what just about everyone wants: THE JOB THAT YOU LIKE AND CAN DO BEST. This blog, "Your Next Job" is devoted to helping you to better understand how to use our book, "21st Century Jobs" to  your best advantage and get the job of getting a job you like and can do best done as soon as possible. In fact, we are enabling you to have your own system to beat the system.

International Leadership Institute zahajuje nove programy v Praze

Ucelem naseho blogu , "Your Next Job" je pomoci tem kvalifikovanym jedincum, kteri se zajimaji o zapojeni do pracovniho procesu nebo hledaji lepsi misto uspet co nejrychleji v tom, ze najdou pracovni prilezitost, ktera jim bude vyhovovat a kterou dokazou dobre zvladat. Po 20 letech cinosti Institutu v Cesku a na Slovensku rizene z USA je nyni ILI etablovan v Praze. Komunikace na tomto blogu mohou probihat v Cestine a take v Anglictine, Francouzstine, Nemcine, Norstine a Rustine. This is just to let know our FB friends that ILI's programs and activities are now available here in Prague on the full time basis.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Looking for work

My wife Sara and I own a business. This seems to be the answer for looking for work--start your own company. But in reality, owning a business means you're always looking for work--for customers, projects and programs that people need. We're looking for work in Prague, both with our established programs and with new ones, to meet newly-discovered needs. Something about work itself declares that it's always changing. People's needs and what's available to meet those needs work together symbiotically--the need causes the new offering, which gives birth to a new need. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Why work?

photo: Sara and I with Czech Deputy Minister Petricek of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, CR, when we were running the EEP-CBL executive education programs. For details, visit www.ili.cc

Too often people get jobs because they need money. Well, you say, why else would they get a job? I look at it differently. I believe that we need to work, to be productive, to be useful, in order to be fully human. We need to be part of our society in a meaningful way, and that's what work accomplishes. The fact that we need money is only a spur to overcome any natural inertia or laziness that would keep us from working.

Friday, August 6, 2010

New Continent, New Job Seminars

My wife and I have just moved to Prague, Czech Republic. Our business, the International Leadership Institute, has been operating in the U.S. (mainly in Florida) and the Czech Republic since 1990, after the collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia. We run educational programs that assist participants in developing key leadership skills. These five programs (listed beginning with our first programs) are the core of our business:

1. Executive Education for Czech & Slovak Business Leaders (1990--1997). These programs, run in conjunction with the Czech Ministry of Industry & Trade, the Jacksonville, Florida Chamber of Commerce, the University of North Florida, and hundreds of American companies (such as General Electric, Barnett Bank, the Port of Jacksonville, Westinghouse, Toyota, and Ford), gave Czech and Slovak executives the opportunity for hands-on experience in Western business strategies and techniques. The participants lived with American host families, attended university classes and had an internship with an American company in a corresponding industry.

2. US AID/US Department of State Agency for International Development (1995-2004). These training programs, delivered on behalf of US AID, gave executive participants from Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania and Macedonia the chance to be part of the American way of life. Through business meetings, tours, receptions and recreational activities, the participants became better acquainted with American ways of doing business. The participants developed leadership and career-related skills through program activities and exercises.

3. Travel-and-Learn Programs (1990-present). These programs combine tourism with opportunities to meet people, learn about the history, social life, politics and religions of the countries visited. Travel-and-Learn programs have visited Florida, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Colorado, Wyoming, Germany, Utah, Arizona, Austria, Slovakia, Tennessee, and New York City, among other countries. Participants can be any age, of any nationality.

4. English Language Immersion Programs (1990-present). These programs give participants the chance to learn English in the U. S. Living with a host family, as well as attending cultural events and educational activities, gives participants the opportunity to gain fluency in English. Two years of previous English study in school is required. Leadership and career development activities are included in these programs.

5. 21st Century Jobs Seminars (2009-present). These programs have been developed out of our 30-year experience in helping people find the job they can like and do best. The book 21st Century Jobs is used for the seminars, which consist of exercises and activities that have been proven to help people advance in their careers.