Dubaism and Job Hoping - What to consider

“There’s no finishing line in the race to excellence” It is difficult not to copy and apply this line as much as you are living in the UAE, not because it’s a quote from and by the Sheikh, but because it’s intelligible guide for any millennial. It is tough to move to the ‘perfect job’ in one step, No one really gets catapulted to the comfort zone; you first need to increase your commercial value and relevance in the industry by garnering experience. You must undergo a period of hands-on routine plus continuous training to secure the experience. The hands on duration means persevering monotonous and painful  low pay, dealing with colleagues who are either drive deficient and  are afraid to be without a job, or worse still, working under a boss from hell. To be professionally supreme which is the gateway to the perfect job, entails educational advancement as minimum requirement  augmented with hybrid experience,  I complied here job hoping strategy that will add critical goal-oriented skills to your portfolio and catalyze the 'perfect job' process.

Do you need this move?

While you consider what you will gain both position and renumeration, you must, have understood that its worth what you are about to give up. Let all your moves hold a defensive background, you should also be convinced with your explanation for your move. Remember you are what your were last.A move equivalent of what you are now is a move you don't need!

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Opportunity predator

If corporate hierarchy places you at the bottom then you are deliberately in the wrong environment. You cannot be held with high esteem while you play the role of professional scavenger. If you say you have work to do, it doesn't have to be cleaning corporate garbage, nothing wrong with your resume telling different story from your true life story, this is one way of securing your prey.

Lay-Over Employers.

You will definitely stop over at several employers, they seem like the right people at the time based on your long range career plans and be ready to be procured by them. They are utmost provisional and presently credible, think of how ideal a fast-food is when you starving and you need  an hour to complete your cookery and arrange the food pageant. You go past skeptical interviewers with articulate defense, they don't really need to understand your sudden and questionable job change decision

Leave while still valid

Stay in each job long enough to learn something. Numerous moves aren't disastrous if they reflect a master plan. But frequent moves where you don't have time to develop new skills raise red flags. To pacify suspicious hiring try to remain in each job at least an year.

Position freak

Take the next position without looking back, you have developed new talents, so don't underestimate yourself, go for it. You cannot be guilty of jeopardizing your ability by returning to the same thing you have done in two or three different places. You may be under the threat of being pigeonholed if you do not posses the desired qualities just yet but hey, that is the difference! The difference is that you are you! Go back to you mind and call an ATTITUDE assembly then tackle the task ahead.

Don’t bear relocations costs

Common sense dictates that you become wiser as you grow older, and that's what your most recent decisions and actions should reflect. Career goals are financially driven including charities otherwise donors would be omitted from the humanity circle. Its cardinal sin for the specie that chase money and earn it hard to deflate their earnings in recompenses, especially not here in Dubai! No no no.

What is stigma

Savvy careerists never start to listen to multi-fold definitions of job hopping stigma. Once you make the decision of broadening your expertise you are bound to have far more intellectual exchanges, your acute-mindedness will fail you along the way, you will compromise some of your values, you will be frowned upon by many, In reality you will never methodise stigma. There is also no specific way to deal with it, Anywhere the acculturation curve is steep, you only need to have daily positivity overdose.