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Quotes from Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter — Nigel Cumberland

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Preparation and planning are everything - ask any chef.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Everything matters and the little things do count in life..So often in this fast world we forget the importance of effective communication.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Poor quality job-hunting can be the surest way of remaining without work, of being depressed and of feeling that life has no direction.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Employers do not wish to hire victims, rather they try to hire balanced and flexible people who do not blame others for their situation.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Rather than let the rejections deter you from your objectives, simply aim to learn what the rejections teach you.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

No one owes you a job, least of all the person across the table interviewing you!

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

If you don’t know where you are heading, no employer is going to hire you to give you a lift to ‘Don’t know where land’!

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Be able to sell ice-cubes to Eskimos – you may have to!

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Yes, first impressions do count but every single impression counts. You cannot fake being positive, but you can practise and teach yourself to appear and act in a positive manner.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

No longer be one of the many job-hunters who are blinded by your ignorance and self-confidence, who after a lengthy period of unemployment still feel that the world owes them a living.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

I am often asked when can you stop networking. I would say never – networking should be a lifelong activity.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Even if you are penniless and desperate for any type of paid employment, you must work out what are the ideal jobs for you if you want to avoid future upset.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Employers are not going to hire a candidate who is stressed by cashflow and family problems. With this kind of baggage around your neck, you will choke your job-hunting opportunities.

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Whatever you start, finish well!

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nigel Cumberland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.