It is challenging to find a good job in today's markets. Changes in the job market, such as the way jobs are "sold" to the person willing to take the least pay, make it certain you will switch jobs more than twenty-five times from finishing college up until you find a good and stable job. There are a few steps you can take to minimize the process of finding a good job. The steps are to identify your key skills, define your ideal job, and finally make contacts at places you want to work.
             Identifying your key skills can be difficult to assess on your own. Thankfully, there are many resources, especially online, that can help you identify those key skills that will ensure your success on the job. Part of identifying those skills can be found by asking yourself the question, "What do I like to do most?" Most of the assessment tests that you will find ask you a series of questions that ask you many times and in many different ways questions that define those key skills that you have. Questions like: Do you like to work with people, or do you prefer to be sitting behind a computer? When you walk into a room do you make friends easily with people you don't know? When these results are put together, you will see a clear picture of the type of working environment that best suites you based on your key skills be it as a teacher, a sales person or a computer programmer.
             Once you have found what your key skills are, it is time to define your ideal job. You will find that your ideal job will most always be one where you are able to utilize the key skills you identified in the first step. However, many times there are goals that you are trying to reach in your personal and professional life that you cannot accomplish working at a job where you can utilize only your key skills. For instance, if your ideal job was one where you sat behind a computer all day, what good would that be if you had not studi...