Designing your own future is entirely up to you. You can let your life run you, or you can run your life. The same concept goes for your employment. You can let your job run you, or you can run your job.

The fact is, you can decide what sort of work you want to do and then go about getting it. Maybe you’re stuck in a dead-end job that brings in enough to feed you, but you’re miserable. You would like to make a lot more of your life. But how? And doing what?

If you have goals in your life and these goals take money to accomplish, you need to design your life so you are bringing in not only enough money to pay the rent or mortgage and eat, but also a lot more than that. You have to be able to put some money aside for the future.

Here’s a suggestion. There’s a field that is expanding greatly and expected to grow even more between now and 2016. This is the field of physical therapy.  The salaries are good and the benefits are also excellent. There is never a lack of demand for employees in this field.

Who wouldn’t want to help people with improving their functions at work and home? Physical therapists do a lot of good. They assist their patients who have become immobilized or lack strength, flexibility or endurance. The treatments they give help people and that may fit into your idea of a great career exactly.

As a physical therapist, your patients would include those who had been involved in accidents or had disabling diseases. You would learn how to restore their fitness and health as well as maintain it. Imagine the satisfaction in helping someone like this?

For this career, a master’s degree from an accredited program would be the minimum level of education required. But this is a two-year program. Wouldn’t you be willing to invest a couple of years towards a stable and prosperous future?

Of course, you could get into the area more rapidly should you decide to become a physical therapy assistant. You could even take online courses to achieve this education, and begin a prosperous career right away.

Mya

It can be a challenge these days working in the HR arena. With unemployment so high and thus so many job-hunting right now, it takes a lot of time to sift through all the applications. You end up spinning your wheels, it seems. And it’s hard to even find a really great potential employee!

It would make sense at this point to use an employment agency. You really need to find an ideal employee and don’t have all the time in the world to do so. You don’t have the money to spend either, for all the advertising!

A placement service can provide you the perfect solution. They will not only match up your job description to a great new employee, but they will do all the dirty work, like the telephone and in-person interviews, reading the resumes and scanning the employment histories and skills. They will screen applicants for you so you will likely get the right person on the first try.

An employment agency will also do testing to further screen your applicants. They will ensure you have a team player. Personnel services usually work on a contingency basis and only take a fee from you when the person they provided is hired. So this makes it inexpensive in the long run.

This service saves you a heap of time and money. You let them know what you want and they provide it. No more struggling and no more hours and hours going to waste. And if your company specializes in a particular field, there’s really no better solution. They will have a pool of potential employees who will fit right in.

Why find a “headhunter?” You may be a small company and don’t have a department or the personnel to devote to finding staff. Perhaps you don’t want to put out the kind of money necessary to advertise, and have even found that you don’t find what you want anyway through this medium. Maybe you desire very particular skills in your applicant.

With a recruiter working for you, you have them doing all your hard work, and the outcome benefits both you and the job seeker. No doubt it’s a win-win situation!

If you are a business owner, you may sometimes find your business dries up. This is a horrible feeling. Are you going to fail? Will you end up on the dole? Well, maybe this is getting a bit carried away. But it still is a terrible feeling when your regular customers don’t seem to be coming to you anymore.

Perhaps you have had only one kind of public you have been servicing in your years of business. It’s always been your bread and butter. You count on it. But now, virtually nothing! Panic time!

Well, it’s time to make a change. You must think out of the box in cases like this. You must start looking for customers elsewhere. Without stopping your normal promotions to your past customers, you have to start reaching out to new ones.

It might take a little research. Or you may almost instantly have that epiphany and know exactly who to contact. No matter, start getting out your communication lines and promote, promote, promote!

Look for those who would likely want your service. What are your talents and who wants what you have to deliver? Open your mind to all the possibilities. They are out there and someone is just waiting for you to call on them because they need you!

When you continue your regular promotions, you’ll keep what business will come your way from your old customers. But you’ll now be picking up a new bunch, and when the regular customers pick up again, you’ll have EXPANSION!

Oh yes, and don’t forget – produce a product of such high quality that your customers would never dream of using anyone else.

Mya