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Transition is a part and parcel of life .Transitions is essential for evolution. In professional life the job changes must be for greater learning .It requires management of these transitions. Sudden loss of employment strain confidence and robs identity. The stigma of unemployment weighs more with every rejection. It may have several reasons ranging from being a misfit, answering the questions with low knowledge, over-qualified, over-experienced and etc. The decision to hire is made on the basis of future promises from the talent, realized during the interview process. Here are few tips to manage transition and become better fir to the job.

Focus on skills and service offerings: Any employer in this dog eat dog global scenario will look for extended value in each person he recruits. He wills the candidate who is the best fit to the job. The talent requires making the best offer, assuring revenue for the business. Focus completely on the requirement, in case there are more skills to be offered, mention them judiciously. During the first few screening rounds ask as many questions as possible. It should cover macro and micro levels of the job. Such as, what would be the daily routine in the job and how much value would one get to create, what would be the parameters for measuring performance etc. Similarly, paraphrase the discussion with the recruiter. It reaffirms listening skills and understanding what the recruiters have explained. In case they don’t share about the job, make suggestion on how the daily routine can be, what kind of escalations would be required to handle. Use this knowledge to form your responses towards the final level. Build your replies on the answers received from the recruiters.

Focus on presenting your selves as a product that will become more and more valuable to the company as time passes. Mention always that the organization is a good platform for learning, honing up his skills and grow with the organization.

Focus on continuity: Make the best use of the gap. Improve your knowledge level and skill sets level. Find out yourself the weaknesses and the gap in your knowledge and skill level that made you a less fit to the job.

It is no more looking for job to fit your qualification; it is fitting us into a job. Lots of introspection and Research required in terms of our interest and types of jobs available. Research and volunteer service are two areas, which offer continuity to the talent. The fact that the talent did not become redundant while looking for a job makes them easy to be hired. Similarly, if the talent engages to train others on the skills learnt so far, it strengthens the decision making. Focus on re-skilling: Training programs including higher level learning is the best activity to plan out during the transition. It opens new opportunity and allows the talent to move into higher roles. The re-skilling can be both vertical and horizontal. Certain jobs become redundant, nevertheless the demand for other jobs last longer. Hence training in the vertical with more jobs would result in longer employment

Focus on the daily routine: The routine which we follow during our employment creates a behavioral impact. Therefore, it requires readjustment; effort to build an equally engaging routine which will ensure the same level of involvement. Involve in emotionally stimulating activities that can keep the spirits high.

Focus on relevant results: Finding another job could be exhaustive. The key to such situation is to remain objective. Understand and implement, nevertheless guard against being hurt. Each failure or rejection is a lesson; identify the lessons learnt .Use them as feed back to identify opportunity area. The coping skill at this juncture comes handy. Effort needs to be made in order to detangle the worries including the finance and other responsibilities.

It is essential to be on the job, not to leave a job on our own. To be retained in the job we must constantly improve ourselves to be a better to the job; still become versatile in order to be valuable to9 the organization in case of emergencies. Therefore the value one generates very important for retaining the job. Right-fit is an objective idea. Use Transition to refine personality to become better-fit., As in the words of Martha Beck,” Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.”