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Don't Give Up on a Job You Want

There are always companies out there that you hear comments about like, "that's the best place to work," or "I heard they have the best benefits," and you occasionally run across a job ad that sounds like the position was custom-built for you.

When you come across these types of companies or opportunities, it pays to be professional and persistent until you get a job there. It may only take a couple of months or it might take several years. You may need to finish your degree or get more specific experience. Nevertheless, if you have decided that this is where you want to work, then do something about it.

Get the interview

The first step to get a position with a specific company is to secure an interview. Make sure your resume is tight, with the best experience, the best skills and the latest format possible. Create an incredible cover letter that further explains why they should be interested in you and then send them to the recruiter.

Wait from one to three weeks depending on the position and the company and then contact the recruiter. A friendly email or voicemail usually works best. Try not to be a pest but show that you are persistent. Continue checking in every couple of weeks until you get an interview or the position is filled. If it gets filled, ask the recruiter what skills they were looking for that you did not posses.

If you did not get an interview, evaluate your skills and your resume and make some changes. Take some training courses, go back to school, switch jobs or companies to get better experience or transfer to a different department for more experience. In essence, do whatever it takes to make your resume look better and to secure an interview.

Maintain communication throughout your quest

Whether you don't get the interview, you get the interview but don't get the job or you get the interview and think you are going to get the job, keep up the professional, courteous communication with whoever your contact person is at the company.

If you don't get an interview, send them an email thanking them for their consideration. If you get an interview but not the job, send them an email thanking them for taking time out of their schedule. Finally, if you think you did great in the interview, still send them an email thanking them for their time. In each of these scenarios include a line about how much you would really like to work for that company.

I recently spoke with a friend who interviewed for a job that fit his skills perfectly. He went through a total of eight interviewers and still did not get the job. Nevertheless, he always sent his follow up emails. He even followed up two months after the interview with a short email saying he was still interested. Out of the blue, four months after his interview, the company called him back and hired him within two weeks.

The moral of the story is that if you find a place where you want to work, keep at it until you work there. Use whatever means are at your disposal to get the appropriate skills, education and experience to get hired. No matter how long it takes, it will be worth your while and you will have the job of your dreams.

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Debt Management Plans – A Way To Survive The Debt And Come On Top

Debt Management Plans (DMP) is placed one step beyond credit counseling and a stone's throw short of bankruptcy. If you are too deep into debt and unable to pay them, a credit counseling agency may recommend Debt Management Plans. This is a serious step that should be considered carefully along with better money management skills and budgeting disciplines.

Similar to prescription medication that you would only take after consulting a licensed physician, Debt Management Plans should start only after you have talked it over with a certified credit counselor. Your certified credit counselor spends the time to review your financial situation, consider alternatives, and help you learn to handle money better. You want to stay out of debt after you get out of it.

What is Debt Management Plans?

In simple terms, your credit counseling organization begins to manage your debts on your behalf through direct interaction with your creditors. They come between you and most of your unsecured creditors, negotiate lower interest rates, eliminate certain fees, arrange payment amounts and prioritize which creditors gets paid first. In short, almost everything that could be done to get you out of debt fast. These plans cover most unsecured debts, like credit card bills, student loans, and medical bills. But secured debts such as real estate loans fall outside of these plans.

Before signing up with a credit counseling organization for a DMP, verify any concessions your particular creditors offer to that organization. All these concessions from your creditors amount to one thing: Lower your monthly payment and still get out of debt faster. In some cases, you will be able to pay you debts, years earlier. Ask your credit counselor how much earlier you will get out of debt if you stayed on course.

When DMP starts, you agree to send one monthly payment to the credit counseling organization and they in turn make all the payments to your creditors for you. In the meantime, you may have to agree not to use or apply for credit while you are participating in the plan.

Is a Debt Management Plan Right For You?

Cover the following with your credit counselor before you decide to participate in a Debt Management Plan.

Find out if there are other options besides the DMP available to you. Is your DMP handled by the same organization that also provides you assistance with money and budget management during and after DMP? If a Debt Management Plan is handled by one organization and another handles your ongoing credit counseling, how will you coordinate the two? Remember you want to stay out debt later.

Find out how enrolling in a Debt Management Plan impacts your credit and your credit score. Negative and accurate information on your credit record is not easy to remove despite any promises made.

Confirm what your monthly payment amount is and if you can afford it. Do not commit to something you cannot follow through.

Credit counseling organization promises concessions they can get from your creditors, such as lowering or eliminating interest charges and late fees. Confirm these with your creditors and see if there is a waiting period before these concessions kick in or do they start as soon as you enroll in a DMP.

Verify that your creditors are paid within the correct billing cycles and before their required payment due date.

Clarify the steps involved in getting status reports on your account from your credit counseling organization. How often? How detailed? Is it accessible by phone? Any hesitancy on behalf of the credit counseling organization to let you verify your account status is a big red flag that means you need to find another organization to help you.

Find out if your creditors are willing to reset the clock on your past-due accounts, wiping out the record of missed and late payments if you sign up with a Debt Management Plan. This process is called re-aging your account. How many payments should you make before your creditors are willing to do this?

What to do after Debt Management Plan starts?

Once you sign up with a Debt Management Plan continue to be active with the process, even though emotionally, you may want to wash your hands away and stay away. DMP does not relieve you of your responsibilities; it only helps you manage it better.

Keep in touch with your creditors and pay your bills until the DMP goes into effect. If you haven't had any negative entries in your credit report by now, any late payments, late and penalties can still be entered into your credit report.

Contact your creditors and confirm that they have accepted the proposed Debt Management Plan before you send any payments to the credit counseling organization for your DMP.

Call each of your creditors on the first of every month to make sure the agency has paid them on time and verify this by checking your monthly statements. Your monthly statement should also reflect any changes in your interest rates, waiving of the late fees and any other concessions you were expecting.

May you be granted freedom from debts both physical and Spiritually.