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Employability
Presently, your personal resources are limited:
You only have 24 hours in a day
Money doesn't grow on trees
Your IQ has been fixed since childhood
What if you could get extra hours in a day, while others were still limited to 24? What if you knew where a legal money tree existed? What if you could increase your IQ to higher levels, year after year?
Would you be interested in increasing these personal resources? Would you be worth more to your employer? Would you enjoy life more?
This is what Employability is about: Acquiring new skills that help you do more than you could before, not by stressing yourself more, but by working smarter.
How do you carve more hours out of the day? You can switch from handwriting at 30 words per minute to word processing at 60 words per minute. You would also have the additional advantages of no writer's cramp, a permanent and easily corrected copy of your words, a final document that could be sent electronically, printed on a business card or sold as a book). If you write two hours per day, you could save at least an hour, giving you the equivalent of 25 hours in a day.
Or, you could learn to speed read, increasing your reading rate from about 300 words per minute to 900 (that's not as hard as it may sound). If you read 21 hours a week, you would create 14 extra hours each week.
There are problems out there that people will pay you to solve. You could start up your own business risking little or none of your own money. You may discover that money grows on trees after all.
They say that your IQ doesn't change with age, because they have a clever way of accounting for your age in the figuring of the IQ. However, there are special techniques that make you think faster and smarter, beating the IQ formula and actually increasing your IQ. Sound incredible? Read on.
Employability is a hot topic now because of the following reasons:
1) Powerful international competition is forcing many American companies to do business with fewer people. For many businesses, the choice is between being leaner or dying.
2) And many traditional companies do die because of outside pressure or inside weaknesses. Either way, the jobs no longer exist.
3) More and more people realize that their jobs are not for them. The job is secure enough, but the pay is too small, no advancement is possible, or the job holds no challenge
The traditional way to get a better job was to go to college. That's fine if you're just graduating from high school and have few responsibilities. For a family man, or woman, enrolling in college is often not an option.
You may need a job immediately, or have few free hours for self improvement. Either way, you need to know the key skills necessary for higher pay, how to acquire these skills as quickly and cheaply as possible, and how to do it at home, whenever you can squeeze out a little time to invest in your human capital, or employability.
This is an interactive course designed to answer the question: What is the quickest route to high employability? Here are my ideas. With your help, we can make this a better course, and a better future, for everyone being pinched by the wheels of progress.
The route we take from here depends on where you are starting from. Please tell me a little about yourself:
1) I have no college degree (Sorry, not enabled yet)
2) I want to change my profession (Sorry, not enabled yet)
3) I'm a manager and I want to help my company survive (Sorry, not enabled yet)
How did I do? Give me your ideas (wilson@srv.net) so we can make this more useful to the needy people who come to this site tomorrow.
Outside pressures are killing America's longtime businesses: Foreign nations with cheap labor, tariffs, government subsidies, more aggressive business practices, and more modern industrial base.
Inside weaknesses are due to managers who fail to respond to the changing business environment, or who are not qualified to be managing a business.
Challenge: At one time, "job" and "boring" meant the same thing. Nowadays, people are no longer willing to put up with a job that's boring. They demand challenge, purpose, control and satisfaction from the place they pick up their paycheck.