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Now You Have Got a Job, What Next?

An aspect of knowledge most employees exhibit high level of ignorance is understanding the rationale of working. It is a pity that most employees are ignorant of the ideal objectives of working. They have insufficient, deficient, unsatisfactory, poor, disappointing, misleading and erroneous reasons for working. As a result, they are unable to derive optimum benefits from their jobs. This is one of the reasons most of them have no meaningful thing to show for their jobs after decades of active service. Research findings show that over 95% of retirees are not financially free.

Perhaps, the most significant implication of this finding is that over 90% of employees, like most of their predecessors, will retire poor. This speaks very eloquently on the fact that there has not been any significant difference between the mentality of past generations of employees and the mentality of most employees of present generation. One of the factors that are responsible for the bleak future that awaits most employees is that they are ignorant of the ideal objectives of working.

Most employees know how to work for their employers but not how to work for themselves. They also know how to put in optimum efforts in their jobs because it is a necessary condition for not losing them (their jobs). Most unfortunately, they are ignorant of how to derive optimum benefits from their jobs, despite the fact that it is a necessary condition for building a healthy future, especially in their finances.

Employers believe that it is not their duty to make this information available to their employees. Employers are capitalists. Their primary interest, as far as their relationship with their employees is concerned, is maximising their profit with the aid of the optimum productivity of their workers. Anything that does not lead to the realisation of this objective is outside the scope of their interest.

Most employers are convinced that while it is their responsibility to take the destinies of their businesses in their hands, it is the responsibilities of their employees to take their destinies in their own hands. Employers are preoccupied with how to maximise their profits from their businesses, not how to help their employees to maximise their profit from their organisations.

It is a pity that most employees are unable to enjoy the optimum benefits of their jobs. However, it is more worrisome that they are ignorant of this ignorance of theirs. This is why they are unable to make any effort to understand the rationale of working or improve their income significantly until their working years are over. The crux of the situation is that most employees are immersed in this ugly and pitiable condition until their working years are over. This is also one of the reasons most of them retire poor.

Perhaps, the worst consequence of this ignorance is that most employees are used as financial slaves1 all through their working years. This claim is true for employees of both public/government and private organisations, though it is usually worse in the latter. Though many employers may not try to obstruct their employees from realising their ignorance on how to maximise their profits from their jobs, they (employers) offer no help to liberate them (their employees) from their ignorance because it profits them (the employers). The passion to assist employees to derive optimum benefits from their jobs made this publication a necessity.

This book was inspired by the observation of the high level of ignorance of numerous employees who attend my training programmes. As a trainer and public speaker, I organise training programmes (seminars, workshops, conferences, etc) in personal financial management, personal development, entrepreneurship, leadership, recruitment, career improvement, etc. I also receive invitations from different organisations to speak in such trainings. As a result, I have the opportunity of speaking to thousands of employees annually. I also have the opportunity of witnessing the testimonies of employees on their experiences in their jobs.

This publication became a necessity with my conviction that, like most of their predecessors, most employees have very high probability of not getting the best from their jobs until they retire. I am deeply convinced that if urgent corrective and curative steps are not taken, most people in the present generation of workers will remain ignorant of the rationale of working, how to get job promotion and increase their incomes until their working years are over. In addition, just as the present generation of workers inherited this ignorance from their successors, they will also transfer it to their successors if it is not corrected.

This book was also deemed necessary because of the conviction that any effort to assist employees to achieve meaningful success in life, especially in their finances, will likely prove abortive if they are not emancipated from the slavery of ignorance that incapacitates them from optimising the opportunities that are inherent in their jobs. The content of this book has the potential to dispel this darkness of ignorance in the lives of employees.

This book – Now You Have Got A Job, What Next?: How To Get Job Promotion, Increase Your Income And Retire Rich - is the last in the book series, Complete Manual For Job Seekers. The book series is designed to guide job seekers on how to get their dream jobs and achieve optimum success when they are offered appointments. This book is necessary because getting a job is merely a means to an end. Most unfortunately, it is often regarded as an end in itself by most employees. This is why most people settle for mediocrity for the rest of their lives after getting a job.

This book is designed to help employees ascend the ladder of success in their jobs, even with convenience. In addition, it will help them to increase their income and retire rich. By so doing, it will prepare employees for a brighter, better, healthier and happier future. However, it will be more helpful to fresh employees who, all things being equal, have more years of active service ahead.

I am obliged to remark that the content of this book is often deliberately denied a place in the programmes of orientations of new employees (in different business organisations) by employers because they (employers) believe that the knowledge is of value to their employees only. If employers were placing high premium on the welfare of their employees, this would unarguably be one of the most effective strategies for empowering employees for a healthier future by enlightening them on how to make the best (for themselves) from their jobs.

This book is designed to enlighten you on how to emancipate yourself from some dangers and demerits of being an employee.2 It will also help you to see your ignorance and how your employer takes advantage of it, sometimes, if not most times. This is why some employers may not like their employees to read it. Since the content of this book profits you more than your employer, at least directly, you are obliged to study it with maximum concentration and apply the knowledge to your life if you want to derive optimum benefits from your job. This book is a very reliable and authoritative guide to becoming a successful employee.

This book is also recommended to job seekers because most of the problems employees have are often rooted in factors that were not taken into consideration while they were searching for jobs. It is recommended to job seekers because it will be of help to them in choosing the organisations they should apply for jobs. In addition, it will prepare them for the challenges that await them when they are offered appointments by organisations.

The first book in the Complete Manual for Job Seekers is What Employers Want From Job Seekers: How To Get Your Dream Job. The book enlightens job seekers on the specialised knowledge and skills they need to get their dream jobs. It also enlightens them on how to identify job opportunities and secure invitations for job interviews with the aid of winning job application packages. It also intimates job seekers on the expectations of prospective employers from them. The book is concluded with best answers to 55 most frequently asked job interview questions.

The second book in the Complete Manual for Job Seekers is Best Answers to 151 Most Frequently Asked Job Interview Questions: A Guide To Preparing For Job Interview. The book, as the name implies, offers the best answers to 151 most frequently asked job interview questions. It enlightens job seekers on the expectations of prospective employers from them during job interviews. In addition, it offers them very reliable guides on how to impress their prospective employers during job interviews and be considered the best candidates for the positions they applied for.

The first and second books in the Complete Manual for Job Seekers (i.e. What Employers Want From Job Seekers: How To Get Your Dream Job and Best Answers to 151 Most Frequently Asked Job Interview Questions: A Guide To Preparing For Job Interview) contain the best answers to over 200 most frequently asked job interview questions. The books are highly recommended to job seekers. They are also recommended to employees who want to change their jobs.

The Complete Manual For Job Seekers is unarguably the most authoritative guide for job seekers in getting their dream jobs, even faster than they think, and also with convenience. The manual, in addition to simplifying how to get jobs, also enlightens the readers on how to get promotion in their jobs (when they are offered appointments) and retire rich.