All The Secrets of Getting a New Job in Dubai! UNLEASHED!
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If you're sick and tired of your current job and want desperately a new opportunity in one of the most multicultural and popular cities in the world DUBAI, this is the perfect guide from A to Z to make your dream come true.
Isabelita Castilho, a career advisor who has worked with top global headhunting firms, shares the most hidden secrets to getting the best jobs that Dubai has to offer. Even if you want to work somewhere else, you can apply her advice to land a new position.
Learn how to:
- Get better and faster results by applying the techniques outlined in this book on how to do things differently and "think outside of the box";
- Make a great impression on LinkedIn(R) and learn the successful way to use it to land your dream job;
- Identify and Reach out to hiring managers, HR managers and recruiters;
- Network online and in person.
You'll also learn the value of asking for help - and how to ask for it. Asking someone to recommend you to a company, a recruiter or simply asking for someone's contact information could mean the difference between a dead-end job and the job opportunity of your dreams.
Envision what you want, develop a plan to get it, focus, and commit to changing your life by learning the life-changing strategies in All The Secrets of Getting a New Job in Dubai!
Isabelita Castilho
Originally from Brazil, Isabelita Castilho is a talented and dedicated Executive Career Coach who draws upon her previous experience as headhunter and talent acquisition consultant to provide strategic career advice. Isabelita passionately expresses that her mission in life is to open doors to help professionals land their dream job within a very short timeframe in the UAE market, mainly Dubai, where she has been residing since February of 2011. She has an extensive understanding of the job market as illustrated in her book “All The Secrets of Getting a New Job in Dubai! UNLEASHED!”. Isabelita has advised top level executives across the world including some of the top 10 global executive search firms. She has extensive multi-cultural experience having lived in Brazil, The United States, Australia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration and various HR related certifications including: interview skills, dealing with difficult people and work relations. She speaks 5 languages including Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish and French. On a personal side, Isabelita loves self-development through listening to audio-books daily, learning about Human Behaviour and persuasion including NLP, Hypnosis and life coaching. She loves animals (especially cats), dancing and running.
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All The Secrets of Getting a New Job in Dubai! UNLEASHED! - Isabelita Castilho
Isabelita Castilho
All The Secrets of Getting a New Job in Dubai! Unleashed! Revised
First published by Isabelita Castilho in 2017
Copyright © Isabelita Castilho, 2017
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.
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Contents
Copyright
Dedication
A Special Thanks
Preface
Do you really know what you want?!
Action Plan - How to Plan Your Next Job & Commit
Thinking Outside of the Box!
LinkedIn® is Your Hero! A Tutorial for Job Hunters - Step by Step
Active vs. Passive or Confidential Job Seeker! The Approach
Recruiters & Headhunters: In-house vs. Agency recruiters & Executive Search Firms
What Makes a Perfect C.V
Cover Letter and Bio - What to Write
How to Shine in Job Interviews - Most Commonly Asked Tough Questions & Answers
Salary Negotiation - How to Negotiate Salary
Career Change - How to shift industries and start from scratch?
Networking in Dubai
Expat Life in Dubai – All you need to know in a Nutshell!
List of Recruitment Agencies and Job Portals
Final Considerations
Final Thoughts
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by Isabelita Castilho.
ISBN: Softcover 978-9948-23-266-7
eBook 978-9948-23-265-0
Book Cover Designer: Fatima Abbas (fatima.a92@hotmail.com)
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, typing or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in case of brief quotations embodied in critical article and reviews.
Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of any company names mentioned in the book.
Dedication
I would like to dedicate this book to my aunt Joanina Beatriz Maiolli Steinke (in memoriam) who had always believed in me and always encouraged me to write a book. May God protect her soul wherever she may be now.
Also strongly to my parents who always believed and supported me throughout the years and for investing in me and in my education overseas, thanks Dad and Mom!
And finally but not least to all the people and companies I came across in my career in Dubai that provided me the insight and experience to share these learnings such as Heidrick & Struggles and SpenglerFox both executive search firms and Majid Al Futtaim Properties during the in house Talent Acquisition Consultancy project.
A Special Thanks
To Sami Gasan, for his dedication and full support in helping me to accomplish this dream to come true.
Preface
Dubai - The Dreamland!
Obtaining a job in one of the most popular cities of the world is not for anyone, in fact IT IS for almost everyone once you know what to do!
The purpose of this book is to make dreams come true to get a job in one of the most multi-cultural and popular cities in the world, where safety is one of the highest and tax-free. Opportunities are endless for anyone who wants to pursue this goal and plan a happy future and career.
The Chapters were written in a certain order to facilitate your understanding and to help you create your action plan to bring you to Dubai and make you stay by finding a secure and happy new job. You can follow the order of the chapters or you can choose to read first the chapters that most appeal to you and seem more urgent in your current circumstance.
Many of the suggestions given can also be applied when looking for a job outside of Dubai and the efficiency of LinkedIn® networking, which I emphasize throughout the 15 chapters, varies from country to country and can have more or less impact in different parts of the world.
Four things I urge you to keep in mind to achieve this goal: Envision, Plan, Focus and Commit!
My immense gratitude for acquiring this book! And congratulations for taking the first winning step in walking towards your goal: Your future job soon in Dubai!
Isabelita Castilho
The Author
1
Do you really know what you want?!
One of the most challenging factors I come across in professionals looking for a new job is that they either don’t really know what they want or they are looking for a new job that they don’t feel passionate about.
Passion and true interest make a whole difference in the success of obtaining a new job. Our brain is programmed to achieve our desires, whether they are realistic or not. Having the need
to have a new job doesn’t necessarily mean having the passion and the will for the same. When people are not genuinely interested in working for jobs that they look for this could lead into procrastination and a lot of time wasted instead of taking action.
Procrastination, the act of delaying in executing tasks, always leaving for later, is one of the main enemies that leads towards failure and frustration which will not employ you anytime soon if you have this habit and do nothing to change it.
First things first!
Determine what you really want: Do you want to continue doing the same type of job you have been doing? Do you want to move to a new career? Do you want to work in a specific job because it pays well although you don’t like it or at least not too much? If you don’t have the answer for the above then stop for a moment and think: If today you were a millionaire, had absolutely no need to work for money but still had to work, what would you be doing as a purpose in life? Would you be helping other people? How? Would you be writing to a magazine, book or newspaper and if so for what industries and which subjects would you talk about? Would you be a speaker doing public speaking? What subject or things really interest you?
Exercise: Things I would be doing or working with if I absolutely had no need for monthly income.
WRITE IT DOWN NOW!
Once you have written down what you would be doing if you didn’t need income you can then find out what your inspirations are and have a direction in life and be able to create a strategy by putting together an action plan.
I know that at this stage some people might be thinking and saying: I have done this work most of my life and I would not be given a chance to get a job in what I really want to work with
. I will show you in the next chapter how you can do it.
Before moving forward I would like to ask you to think about if there is a chance of you being an ego - centered person. If so, get rid of your ego when taking actions and making decisions! Ego, false image is our worst enemy towards success and happiness. Replace it with humility.
CASE-STUDY - A NOTE ON EGO AND HUMILITY
I once had a client whose identity I will preserve, that was desperate to get a job, however he was