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Essential Equipments Required for a Job

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In some jobs, you will be expected to provide your own equipment. Nurses, for example, are often required to buy their own lapel watches, chefs have their own knives and many trades people have their own collection of tools. When an employer asks whether prospective wood-working employees have their own equipment, he isn't being miserly, he feels that anyone committed to their craft would have their own collection of tools and take pride in them.

When you are job hunting there is also a list of essential equipment which you must have if you are to be effective. Getting a job is a serious business which involves hard work and effort. It is a job in itself and, like any task, it can be made easier if you have the right tools and equipment to hand.

As a minimum you need a notebook and pencil with you at all times. You may hear of a job through a chance conversation in the supermarket or in the bus queue. A notebook and pencil mean that you don't need to rely on your memory. You can note down names, addresses, telephone numbers and directions immediately.



Checklists are also essential items of equipment. They enable you to plan your day or week to make sure that you are doing everything at the right time and on schedule for any appointments or interviews.

Local newspapers provide essential information about job vacancies so you need to see every issue on the day it is published. Either buy one or visit the local library and read it there. There are probably also one or two magazines which publish advertisements for the type of job you want so these will be essential reading too. Telephone directories and Yellow Pages will enable you to discover employers' names, addresses and telephone numbers so keep copies in the house.

At home you need a supply of envelopes and writing paper. Keep your stationery simple and plain. Use A-4 paper and simple business envelopes. Photocopy paper is cheaper and heavier than typing paper. Small sheets of colored notepaper, with designs and motifs on them are fine for writing to friends but don't use them when you are trying to get a job. This is a serious business and you need to use business-style stationery. Make sure too that you have a supply of stamps and access to a telephone. A phone card and some coins in your pocket mean that you can chase up opportunities without effort and, thanks to the notebook and pencil in your pocket, you can scribble down appointments as you speak to potential employers.

A good curriculum vitae, a letter of application, and an enquiry letter which you can copy and adapt to suit individual jobs are also essential tools for the business of getting a job. Spend time getting them right and check spellings, as you can expect to use them again and again. If you can put them on a word processor, they can be printed in large quantities without much effort. Alternatively, you may have to copy them out each time, in which case a good pen also becomes an essential item of equipment.

Finally, you need to have an address where you can be contacted easily. If you are living in a hostel or lodgings, or if your address is a student hall of residence which is only useful during term-time, you may need to rely on family or close friends to keep mail and take messages for you. Whatever arrangements you make, the responsibility for maintaining close contact will be yours. Don't blame family or friends if you miss a job opportunity because you failed to contact them for a couple of weeks.

Experience

Experience can count for a great deal. You can use it to support your job application by illustrating how you have succeeded in similar situations in the past. If necessary, you can argue that your past experience compensates for your lack of formal qualifications. Careful recording of past experience can even be used to support your bid for gaining qualifications through the accreditation of prior learning.

But experience has its limitations. Experience in driving a steam train, for example, wouldn't count for much with British Rail today. Technical experience can quickly become out of date. Only two years after closing the shipyards in Sunderland, the government reported that there was a lack of skilled engineers in the region. Technology was advancing at such a rate that even this short time was enough to make the experience of local unemployed engineers out of date.

Similarly, managers in local government and the civil service, who worked throughout the 1970s, gained experience of working within growing organizations. They encountered massive problems in the 1980s, though, when they had to manage the reduction of services. Their experience of running organizations in the fat years was of little use when they were expected to make cuts.

To be of any value experience needs to have been positive and recent. On some people, it has a negative effect. Through experience, they may know how to spin a job out or how to take short cuts. They may have learned how to get by with the minimum of effort or energy. In effect, experience can produce cynical individuals, resistant to development and unwilling to make any effort beyond the minimum required.

You need to show an employer that your experience is of the right sort. You can do this by looking back through your employment history and picking out incidents, jobs and tasks which challenged you and enabled you to learn lessons which are important to the job you are applying for.

It is also worth remembering that, while technical skill has a short 'sell by date', experience of handling people has a longer-term value. Whatever you do, the chances are that the way you relate to people will be an important aspect of the job. As a working member of an organization your experience of people will be worthwhile and you shouldn't overlook this. Remember, too, that your experience in this area need not have come directly from work. Even if you have only a short employment history, you may be able to find examples from other parts of your life which can illustrate your skill with people.
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