Find jobs during lockdown – 6 skills will help you

Prepare for dream job during lockdown in step by step method

How to get a job during lockdown? What are the ways to prepare to improve your chances of getting a good opportunity? Can we get some work from home opportunity during lockdown phase which can help our career? How to search the job? How to work online? Are there really work from options available? Can we get a job sitting at home? Can college students get part-time jobs for experience? A lot of questions like this I hear from college students and young professionals. The answer is ‘YES’ You can get a job, online work from home. In this blog will share the tips and tricks to take steps to build a career utilizing the lockdown period.

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List of books to enhance the practical business knowledge

List of websites for freelance jobs

It has been more than 100 days, India is under lockdown, metro cities showing no sign of relief, the cases are increasing rapidly. It is not unknown that it has disrupted the whole socio-economic order of the Country. There has been job losses across world and India is affected too. The situation is vulnerable with everything is locked down impacting millions of job directly or indirectly, yet luckily we are living in in the best times, with basic academics one can have access to immense job potential.

With high retrenchment in media sector, financial services, start-ups, layoff across sectors and verticals has caused much gloom. Also, there are stop-work order/ pause in vendor or gig assignments. The ongoing socio-economic situation is unprecedented and it will be difficult than ever for the new job aspirants. The corporates are taking a hiring pause or atleast slowed down the hiring spree. The hiring is only happening on prior commitment and need basis. The new job aspirants in the other hand often face dilemma to choose the right career options for them.

This lockdown is an opportunity to breathe, think, taking an account of situation and analyse the right career move. It is a difficult time to focus as well in absence of the deadline, exams and pressure, it is easy to get distracted.

With some amount of thought, research and discussion with various groups like colleagues, college students and other professionals, found that the usually human emotion of fear plays the biggest obstacle, everything thing else has a rational solution . Before trying enough, people are accepting failure or taking a pause in trying. This is the time to turn issues into opportunity. This is the time to choose an online course over a netflix sitcom, educational video over binging on entertainment content. This is the time hone the skills which is closest to you. This is the time to turn your hobbies and interest into a career option. Only lucky people get to earn by doing what they love to do. This is your chance. Sieze it.

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Find jobs during lockdown – 6 skills will help you, not only now, in the long term too

Broaden knowledge base – Absorbing information which can be applied in practical life. Reading Books, newspapers, various research reports, Wikipedia pages will broaden your horizon, increase curiosity, and generate interest of application. For example, I learnt about world history by reading Sapience and Wealth of nation, more than my cumulative boring school study in history.
Think like an entrepreneur – Get interested in getting rich and influential. The mindset will define your career path. The more focus one have on finding business opportunity, more you will identify. Even when you are applying and interviewing for jobs, focus on value you will be able to generate and provide as an individual as professional. List down the qualities you have which will help in reducing time, efforts and investments. Focus on improving softkills like communication and negotiation with various stakeholders in your professional life.
Perseverance – Don’t take a NO – Try, and try and try until you are master of it. ‘Rome was not built in a day’, many small steps when taken in a particular direction one after another and with intent, focus and dedication, many miracles are possible. Giving up is easy, but a little efforts everyday to not give up will help achieve all dreams.
Ethics – Be ethical, disciplined and focused. Everyone wants to be associated with reliable, predictable and diligent person. Whatever the profession may be ‘Ethics’ makes every journey worth it. Not only it helps make decision making process easy, it also earns friends from every quarter and people return in kind. Person without ethics is easily identified and in long run no one wants to keep more than a transactional relation incase they can’t avoid the person all together.
Networking – Human is a social animal. We work in group, we like working with known people, we try to work with unknown people only they get reference and recommendation by someone known. In every field, every profession having a good network helps. You can begin with keeping in touch with like minded people, proactively helping others, providing genuine support to colleagues and associates takes a long way. Joining various groups in professions, hobbies and interest, participating in community work, participating group projects may help in better networking and better bonding with people. Many job and project opportunities are passed on in groups like these. You can also make groups based on common hobbies or interests.
Apply your knowledge – The subject you are specializing in your school/ college, try applying it in real life scenaios, case studies, blog, internships and through volunteer work. Working knowledge on any subjects add a lot of value to the existing theoretical knowledge. There are many freelance job opportunities available in technical, specialized as well as general subjects. Try them.

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