In the quest to Lock The Job it is absolutely imperative that you utilize critical thinking skills. In fact, critical thinking is absolutely integral to living effectively in all aspects of our lives. Some may call this an opinion. For an effective life, I consider it a fact.
3FE is the tool for motivational empowerment and
the everyday individual’s tool for applying critical thinking to any given
situation. 3FE: Lock The Job is the
utilization of the tool in order to gain employment and put your career in
over-drive.
In order to understand 3FE:Lock The Job we must
understand 3FE in general. The tool is
designed for simplicity and at its heart are principles many of us learned in
grade school. The great thing about
using grade school principles to solve real-world complex problems is that we
can break them down into the constituent components and address them in
child-like fashion, making the activity infinitely rewarding, and if we go
about it the right way … FUN!
3FE is Find, Focus, establish the Fundamentals,
Execute. FIND is the act of scouring for
data. In any given problem we must
gather data. Raw unvarnished data may be
numbers, facts, addresses, names, incidents, occurrences, products developed,
customer base, employee stats, retention, turnover, employee satisfaction,
salary, benefits. WHO are we looking to
connect with at WHAT? WHY do want to
connect with this organization? WHEN can we connect? WHEN must we have made our connection? HOW long until we are in dire straits if we
are trying to secure a position? HOW can
we connect with important individuals in this organization? WHERE is the
organization located and WHERE do they go to look for prospects? WHERE can I meet people that might have
contacts with the organization? The
organization, IT Folks Incorporated looks like the kind of place we might like,
where we might build a career.
We take this data and we start to scrutinize it, to
either understand its meaning, or give it meaning based on the additional data
we discover. By looking closer at the data we are focusing.
Focus is the phase of 3FE where we start to ask
pertinent questions about the data we’ve collected. We FOCUS on the details by elaborating on
those basic critical questions we learned in elementary school. We look closer at the details and start to
make inferences that work well for us.
IT Folks Incorporated maintains ties with all the local recruiting
offices. However, they also sponsor
organizations like BDPA, Next Level Technology Foundation, Women In Technology,
and LISTA.
By Focusing on what we have found we start to see
relations between the disparate bits of data.
Now the data has meaning, with meaning it becomes information, and as we
examine and work with the information we can discern a logical path of
progression. This path of progression
becomes our list of tasks, our schedule, our plan. This is how we establish the
FUNDAMENTALS. The FUNDAMENTAL part of
3FE is how build a plan that we can use to achieve our goal.
We have asked critical thinker’s questions. We have kept it simple. We have focused on the data and refined it as
information. We have looked at the
information and what makes sense to us is a plan that requires us to not only
reach out to recruiting agencies that have a relationship with IT Folks Inc.,
but we should also join one of the organizations that IT Folks sponsors, like
BDPA. We leverage not only the skills
the recruiting agencies can bring to our job search but we understand clearly
that we must build a network, leverage a network, and create an opportunity.
With a plan in hand, the only thing for us to do is
EXECUTE the plan starting today.
Simplicity and elegance of execution are the key. We want to achieve the objective and we want
to do it in such a fashion that is motivating and elevating, confident and
fulfilling. This, is 3FE: Find, Focus,
establish the Fundamentals, Execute.
In the Lock The Job process 3FE becomes Finding the
company we want to target, Focusing on the details about the company and the
people that can perhaps help us in a quest to join their ranks, establishing a
Fundamental plan that increases the likelihood that said company will make us
an offer; through critical thinking questions and answers that differentiate us
and elevate us above the competition, and finally Executing a plan that we have
put together that ends with us working for the company we’ve targeted.
This, is 3FE:Lock The Job in action.
Utilizing critical thinking skills in everyday
problem solving activities is not common place.
We aren’t taught to think critically.
We aren’t taught to problem solve.
We aren’t taught to use our minds in such a manner as to ease our
burdens through the application of logic, partnered with passion, not
overwhelmed by emotion. 3FE is the poor
man’s critical thinking tool, an approach that works, that motivates, that when
used correctly will most certainly guide you, and help you Lock The Job. Consider it critically, and use it today!
The Aspiring Critical Thinker,
D.S. Brown
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