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Thank you for all your help! It was your resume that got me the interview!

Electronics Technician,
East Grand Forks, MN

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Jeri is interviewed on Studio One, a cable news program produced by students, faculty and staff at the University of North Dakota. This segment talks about job interview process and how you can be prepared for this important part of getting your career going in the right direction.


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The Workwrite Job Search Guide is for you if you are:

Executive: CEO, CIO, CFO, COO, President, Vice President, Partner
At the top of your profession, an accomplished leader with a vision to match, you have accomplishments begging to be quantified in ways that show your enterprise scope.
Management: Director, manager, general manager, operations manager, You are doubly blessed with management experience backed by a profession.
Professional: You are highly educated and/or trained in a career track field.
Technical: Your training is highly specialized, technology oriented, and quickly evolving.
Creative: Your career has called you into the attic of angels, where the sweat of creativity powers the heavens.

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Job search success in 8 steps

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The eight steps to a successful job search and Napoleon Hill’s eight steps to riches are identical by no coincidence. The same single-minded passion that brought great fame and fortune to nearly 200 individuals Hill studied can be applied to your career.
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Think and Grow Your Career, Part 10 of 10

Over the course of 20

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Persist in your job search, no matter what

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Persistence is another essential ingredient in Napoleon Hill’s success recipe. He describes it as the combination of willpower and desire. Others have had more colorful names for it.

Henry Ford was called obstinate for his hard-nosed follow-through. Fannie Hurst conquered the publishing world, but not before she received 36 rejection slips from The Saturday Evening Post. Kate Smith sang for years without money until

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Career decisions: Who is making yours?

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When choosing or changing careers, one of the most important decisions is where and for whom you will work. Do not leave it to chance.

Most of us believe we would never do that. If asked whether we were letting someone else decide our future, we’d say no loudly.

Answer these questions and see how you score:
1. Have you researched an employer for whom

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Plan your job search strategy with your own Master Mind Group

Microsoft.comOrganized Planning is Napoleon Hill's sixth step to success

In the previous six of Napoleon Hill’s famous Eight Steps to Success, we learned that to succeed in a job search or career change, we begin with desire for the change. We bring to our desire the confidence that we are capable of attaining it until we believe we already have.

Now, with the knowledge we

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Your career success depends on your ideas

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When we stimulate our conscious mind through the emotion of a strong desire, creative imagination comes alive. In other words, when you want your new job or career strongly, your ability to create it grows stronger, too.

This is counter to what many of us think and do. We are more likely to tell ourselves, “Don’t get your hopes up,” or “Don’t count on it

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Think and Grow Rich 5: Do you have the training, knowledge, and experience for a new career?

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Napoleon Hill’s best-selling business book of all time derived from the beliefs and actions of many of the richest and most successful people of the early 20th century offers eight steps to success:

1. Desire
2. Faith
3. Autosuggestion
4. Specialized knowledge
5. Imagination
6. Organized planning
7. Decision
8. Persistence

Step 4, specialized knowledge, in Hill’s own words, is personal experiences or observations.

Hill distinguishes between

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Think and Grow Rich 4: Convincing yourself you already have the job

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Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich,” the best-selling business book of all time derived from the beliefs and actions of many of the richest and most successful people of the early 20th century and offers eight steps to success:

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Think and Grow Your Career, Part 4 of 10

Over the course of 20 years, Hill interviewed and observed them to find

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Think & Grow Rich 3: Psyche up to reach your career goal

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(Part 3 of 10)

Napoleon Hill’s best-selling business book of all time derived from the beliefs and actions of many of the richest and most successful people of the early 20th century offers eight steps to success:

1. Desire
2. Faith
3. Autosuggestion
4. Specialized knowledge
5. Imagination
6. Organized planning
7. Decision
8. Persistence

The second step is Faith. In Hill’s own words, this means, “Visualization

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Think & Grow Rich: Finding job starts with desire

(Part 2 of 10)

Napoleon Hill’s best-selling business book of all time derived from the beliefs and actions of many of the richest and most successful people of the early 20th century offers eight steps to success:

1. Desire
2. Faith
3. Autosuggestion
4. Specialized knowledge
5. Imagination
6. Organized planning
7. Decision
8. Persistence

The first step, Desire, in Hill’s own words is the starting point of all achievement.

Hill’s

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