Svejk Talks AboutBig Career Secrets

by Alan Svejk

Training Women in Business,PR, Security, Military

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Svejk Talks About Big Career Secrets by Alan Svejk

What are the secret ingredients to a fantastic, big corporate career, that many of us dreamabout? Is it enough to be educated, to have an impressive CV and LinkedIn profile, and alook of an eagle in your eyes? To be hungry, hard working? Too many of our competitorsown this qualities, so to reach really high in the ranks, we need something more. Someunique personal brand, and a suitable approach to all career matters, including precise psy-chological strategy, inner balance and detailed knowledge of people around, how they think,what works on them. That PSYOPS are really useful anywhere, as Mr. Josef Svejk confirmswith his utmost professional success!

The journey to the stars is zigzag, but if you miss some basic enlightenment, you will neverarrive at your desired destination. Of course, that you can always start your own business, toliberate yourself from all that corporate rules and wild fantasies of their HR people about anideal candidate. Why should you insert your fate into the hands of other people, anyway?Why should you let the corporations to dictate, how you should look, what education youshould have, what kind of a person you should be? Where is the freedom and your destiny inall that ruthless pressure? What will you become, if you will just follow the opinions ofothers? Are you so weak, that they are your only choice, how to achieve a professional suc-cess?

If that is your case, and if you are willing to admit it, well, then you have to become a player.To win this chess game, you will have to be really good, original and even different, to pro-trude from the crowd. All of us have some weaknesses, and it´s too easy to be defeated andeven humiliated, when we spend so much time going to interviews, but in the end, we loseour battle to some prodigy, usually a Millennial. That kids are really good, they symbolize thefuture of business in the eyes of the corporate HR people... so they prefer them quite natu-rally.

So, how to defeat Millennials literally, and to persuade any employer, that they should preferyou? The Millennials have weaknesses too, and Mr. Josef Svejk already showed us, whatapproach should be used, in the older article "Svejk Goes To Millennials".

But there is yet more. If you want to liberate yourself from painful comparisons with others,then you have to find your place, your own position, you have to claim your piece of land,where you will be able to become a ruler, a king or queen. Only then, a miracle can happen -that the corporations will start to perceive you as an asset. And how to achieve this? Let´shear about that from Mr. Josef Svejk personally...

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It was just after five o´clock in the afternoon, but famous "Bierhanzel´s Pub" was alreadycrowded, and beer was flowing in one big stream, that the waiters almost failed to keep upwith waving hands of steady guests, who were always thirsty.

Between them, by the honorable table, reserved only for the hardcore guests, Svejk sat in hishorribly unfitting vintage suit, to represent the elite business sphere properly, and he was justnarrating to his companions, how to make a career in business surely.

"There is only one golden rule to keep, so the fantasized career success can actually come! Ilearned it on a top secret marketing course in America, which cost me ten thousand dollars!But I haven´t ever regretted this modest investment, it paid off generously, just look at me,where I am today!" Svejk emptied a glass of liquor, ordered kindly by some unemployed in-dividual, as Svejk himself was not so long time ago. But now, Svejk had to be pampered, toreveal his business secrets and guaranteed recipes for a successful journey out of the currentlife mud. The whole table fell silent, and they listened to the presentation with almost a religi-ous respect.

"They have to come to you, do you understand? Not you to them, with your hat taken offobediently, as it happens often, in all that infamous cases, when your eyes are lowered downand your desperate, stiff face is telling a loud sad story like give me a job, finally, otherwise Iam lost!

No! On the contrary! You have to be a heavyweight, a king, a top, a specialist, a professional,an elite, a business nobility, and their own clever heads have to figure out, that you could be areal asset and blessing for their business operations, that you will pull them up, as I did withthat originally miserable business, almost in bankruptcy, where I work as a marketingmanager now!"

It was pure truth. Svejk, equipped with his personal religious literature, called "Marketing ForBeginners", that he always carried in an inner pocket of his suit, just beside a small concisebottle of liquor and government-issued identity card, he was able to push the clothing store,directed to female fashion, really forward.

Of course, that there were some marginal additional details of this surprising success, likevery effective help of a high media asset, the chief reporter of the famous tabloid magazine"Heavy Slander". In this respected magazine, there was a fashion section with high publicreputation, where the outfits of celebrities were ruthlessly slandered, or, if a particular VIPhad good relationships with this CEO, highly praised. So one small mention of Svejk´s fashi-on store was enough to start an avalanche of female interest, and the latest delivery from anEgyptian fashion manufacturer, called "Cleopatra Collection", was sold out in 14 days. Nowonder, that Svejk was now perceived as a marketing prodigy!

"They have to want you! No, yet more, to desire for you, because they are in troubles! Onlythen they will come, and they will give you a tempting, even a generous offer, that you shoul-dn´t refuse, no doubt about that! Because you are their good friend, and you want to help

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them, to save them!" Svejk finished his advanced thought, and the table rioted with manycomments, questions and declarations of enthusiastic approval.

"But what if I have no interesting qualification, no specialization, because I haven´t foundmyself in the life yet? But concurrently, I need money now, immediately?" some Tondaasked, a car painter, full of doubts of himself and his abilities.

"The essence of life is not to find yourself, but to create youself from the ash!" Svejk instruc-ted him. "You could spend your whole precious life trying to find yourself, whole years anddecades, you would waste your youth, and who knows, if you would ever find anything! Youknow the rules of life - the more you look for something, the more it evades you! So make itdifferently - determine, who you want to be, and then, search for the ways diligently, how toachieve this desired goal!"

For example, me. I started as a common shop assistant, as a poor apprentice in my homequarter Prague-Liben, I was nobody, and only with my own effort, I went up. But the wholeyears I spent mastering my craft of selling to the last details, to know absolutely everythingabout it!

And then, the masters above quickly realized, that I am fully qualified, to advance further,and I deserve a promotion! But in that time, I already had the neccessary knowledge, firm asconcrete, and nobody will take this from me, ever! Now, I will go only upstairs, but I had tostart from the beginning, there was no way to change that!

So, if you have no special skills, no problem! Find a job, where you can see a future potentialfor your growth, and start on the lowest position. Don´t worry, it´s just temporary! Sonner orlater you will assert yourself, if it´s your destiny. Just start building on a solid foundation!"

All steady guests around, blue and white collars, many of them with stagnating professionalcareers, had really something to think about. A very live discussion started, and many sureadvices for getting rich quickly occured. One bystander offered an unique opportunity forTonda: the direct participation in a miraculous Ponzi scheme, and another benefactor offereda guaranteed betting system for sale, how to win in any casino, always. But all this effortswere surpassed by somebody, willing to sell a recipe for a secret chemical substance,allowing a fully legal multiplication of banknotes.

"Give me five hundred dollars today, and I will bring you one thousand tomorrow, if you don´t know basic chemistry techniques," the secretive alchemist promised, and his eyes weresharp as razors, as he watched carefully, if the place is clear of all uniforms. When he didn´tstop his tale, and nobody bought it, they kicked him away from the table.

"You simply have to turn the situation to your favor," Svejk resumed to his lecture, after a ne-cessary beer refreshment. "Now, it´s them who are strong, who can choose, who can sendaway people calmly, thinking, that they don´t need you, because they are allegedly searchingonly for the best.

But what if you would persuade them, that by not hiring you, they are making a horrible,even fatal mistake? And why? Because their direct competitors will hire you, and they will

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use your special skills and talent... against this original corporation, winning their everlastingcompetition battle!

We negotiate with the HR people with too much respect and even reverence! That´s wrong!This miserable approach doesn´t help in our battle, it makes quite the opposite, it pushes usinto a bad position of a begging loser! It is the same issue as buying your girlfriend too ex-pensive gifts, and too often. You think, that she will respect you, that you will confirm yourlove to her... but what happens? She gets bored, she thinks that she owns you, you lose yourstrength, and she will be unfaithful soon, or she will run to some loser from you. Why? Notbecause of her - because of you! You corrupted her, you changed her!

Let´s add some masculinity into the interviews! Indicate to them, that this is no game, andthey can´t just send you home and go for lunch absolutely peacefully afterwards, with a cleanmind! Raise desirable doubts in them, whether they aren´t doing a big mistake! Make themthink, calculate, awake an imagination in them! Show them, that you are somebody, that youhave an unstoppable potential!" Svejk finished, and emptied another glass of liquor, comple-tely exhausted.

"Enough of talking about work for today, friends! Now, let´s celebrate, that we are all alive,that we successfully made it through another day, and we have enough beer in the tanks here,so we wouldn´t die thirsty, even if a comet would fall down on our heads! Life is the mostprecious gift anybody could give us! Any fantasized jobs, money, houses or cars are worht-less in comparison!

However, it not harmful either, to have all those nice things. So apply for the interviews, andshow them... tomorrow! Play your games on them successfully, and you will have another di-lemma soon, which great offer to choose! Quite a pleasant change, isn´t it?" Svejk smiled,and opened his favorite book.

"To be successful, you need two things: Ignorance and Confidence," he quoted, and he added:"I have enough of both of this stuff, so it balances my alleged lack of Intelligence perfectly! Ilove this world, full of career opportunities for everybody... clever, or dumb!"

© Alan Svejk 2014. Consultant in VIP Affairs | Public Relations | Copywriter | Journalist | Author. www.svejk-alan.cz

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