Aspire: Set your aspirational goals.

• The kind of job/ jobs that fits you the best in the long run based on your capabilities and interests.
• Self-doubt, confusion, ignorance, and surroundings clouds the judgement. Do not let these things affect your decision.

Analyse:

• Understand the recruitment process for the job.
• Skillsets required. Concentrate both on hard skills and soft skills.
• Strengths and weakness. (Assess yourself thoroughly by taking tests, not on basis of what you feel)
• Set a target time to achieve the required skillsets.
• Make a routine action plan to hone your skills.

Acquire:

• Implement the action plan from day 1.
• Keep a track of your improvement on a weekly basis through self-tests (what you learned in the week).
• While learning multiple things. Take tests on each area separately in time-restricted mode to optimize your approaches.
• Test yourself randomly till you are satisfied with results.

Apply:

• Once you have acquired the required skillsets, test yourself with the whole process of recruitment by creating a virtual environment.
• Repeat it with random sets of mock tests till you are satisfied.
• Create an attractive Resume.
• Apply whenever opportunity knocks.