Top Tips for new employment

Scott Hewitt, a career and business coach with Focus Coaching, provides 3 tips to broaden the scope of your employment thinking as well as building confidence for you to move forward to your dream job.

Understand who you are? The top employers are looking for confidence in yourself and your abilities. You can “up your game” by fine tuning your CV to reflect your best skills, write down a list of all your skills, rank them and research your top 5 in detail. Go online a do a personality test, strengths test or social style test. By getting a clearer picture of how others potentially see you, will give you the ability to be more versatile in your interviews.

Explore the business world. Take your top skills and open your search to all possibilities of jobs that could benefit from them. Go knock on the door of the potential companies, look around get a feel for the environment. One of the keys for employment today is experience, ask for a vacation job. Two weeks of experience could be the difference between you and the next person.

Set your goals. Write a detailed inspired goal statement on your career search. A goal should be inspiring, challenging, measurable and achievable. Example: “I am interviewing 10 companies in October who will be able to deliver the working space and reward for me to apply my skills in strategic planning.”

Do not forget to focus on finishing your education to the best of your ability, and have fun doing it.

These are some of the tips for you to start “turning up the volume on your skills and abilities” to get the best out of business and life.


Scott’s career has seen him in the Financial Industry for over 22 years. His experience includes Sales, Retail Banking, Operations, Finance, IT, Project Management and Financial Planning. Scott specialises in coaching young entrepreneurs and graduates, assisting them in cementing their careers in the business world. He also focused a large part of his career on the development of new junior managers in the corporate environment. For more information please see http://www.focuscoaching.co.za/