Four Stages of the Ideal Employee: A Narrative Handbook for Self Motivation

By Frederick Qasim Khan

“Four Stages of the Ideal Employee” is a compilation of actual interviews and personal chats held over the years with individuals seeking employment with either firms I had owned and managed, or over which I had been entrusted with the responsibility to recruit and build an effective staff. You will observe that this booklet has

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Feb 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781948556668

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Four Stages

of the Ideal Employee

A Narrative Handbook for Self Motivation

Frederick Qasim Khan

Copyright © 2018 by Frederick Qasim Khan.

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Contents

Author’s Note

Dedicated To…

The Birth Of A Concept

……AVAILABILITY?: The First Stage

……USEFULNESS: The Second Stage

……VALUE: The Third Stage

……INEXPENDABLE: The Fourth Stage

Professional Educators attest…. Four Stages of the Ideal Employee:

‘Four Stages of the Ideal Employee’ serves as a practical guide for those seeking to gain and maintain employment, as it provides a true common sense approach for individuals seeking employability skills. This book probably should be developed into a pre-employment course for young adults entering the world of work. Four Stages of the Ideal Employee accurately describes the attitudes necessary to GET employed, STAY employed, and ADVANCE in one’s area of employment. Mr. Khan has put into words–in an easily understood and concise fashion–the thoughts that many of us in supervisory positions have had over the years in regards to our expectations of employees.

Terry L. Butler, Vice President,

Student & Community Programs,

Cuyahoga County Community College,

Cleveland,

Ohio

In addition to the academic skills attained in the classroom, young adults need to develop and maintain a positive attitude about the value that they can contribute to society by becoming successful, productive citizens. In ‘Four Stages of the Ideal Employee’, Frederick Qasim Khan gives young adults tools that have proven to yield positive results in the world of work. I highly recommend this book for young people making the transition from school to work.

Dr. Barbara Byrd-Bennett,

CEO Cleveland Municipal School District

Richard Green Award for National Educator of the

Year, 2001 Black Professionals Assoc.,

Black Professional of the Year, 2002

Author’s Note

FOUR STAGES OF the Ideal Employee is a compilation of actual interviews and personal chats held over the years with individuals seeking employment with either firms I had owned and managed, or over which I had been entrusted with the responsibility to recruit and build an effective staff.

You will observe that this booklet has been composed in the natural format of an informal conversation, therefore releasing it from the bonds of what may be considered normal literary diction.

As you read through Four Stages of the Ideal Employee, I personally invite you to imagine yourself sitting in a comfortable office, sipping on a cup of coffee, and listening to a personnel director who really wants to hire you, perhaps because there is some obvious and revealing good in you.

If you listen…. listen to the voice as you read, you just might forget that it’s only a booklet, and, God Willing, you will rise tomorrow with a new outlook on your job, or the one you are seeking. Have a nice time.

Frederick Qasim Khan

Dedicated To…

My mother, Christine Shaw, who said, Find some work you like and just stick with it --that’s the only way you’ll get anywhere.

My father, Ali Khan, who said, When you agree to work for someone, no matter what the job or the pay is, you are obligated to give them an honest days work.

My uncle, Harold P. Johnson, who said, Nobody’s going to give you anything, you’ve got to work hard for it.

My wife, Hasaina, who said, I don’t know what you’re sitting there reading the want ads for, you’d better just go get a job!

My brother, Tariq, who said, Don’t grumble and stay.

My son, Zerahkyah, who said, "We should never be afraid to respond to our own fresh