Max Your Chances for Next Better Job
Here are five steps you should take to maximize your chances to land your next better job. This is not rocket science, but unless you put in the work you will not succeed.
- Build a network of contacts based on your career plan, including targeted prospective companies and executives. Use our networking 3.0 approach to maximize your effectiveness.
- Create a resume that sells your value and customize it for each position you pursue. Use the keywords, and phrases, and address the specific selection criteria.
- Prepare for the interviews. Anticipate the questions and rehearse your answers.
- Be video proficient – good lighting, camera framing, and audio.
- Alert your references. Brief them on the job and the issues.
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Avoid a Career Detour: Invest In Yourself
QUOTE: (Why should I spend so much time on managing my career? My family, church and friends are more important priorities. Besides, I have the experience and a good track record.)
Good. But you should consider this:
The job search paradigm has changed dramatically. Expansion of automation and technology are propelling more dramatic change. AI is taking over candidate sourcing and screening work now performed by human recruiters.
If you do nothing else, act on these two critical:
- Build a robust online profile and brand. Your online presence will be more important as employers use computers to scan profiles to identify applicants – thousands within minutes.
- Realign your career network using a Networking 3.0 strategy: Your strategic network will be critical for a “side-door” introduction and, hopefully, a reference.
You cannot afford status quo career management.
Bad Career Advice: Gift that Keeps On Giving
The thing about getting online career advice in a blog, a short video, or a podcast is that you have no way to hold the author’s feet to the fire for bad or misguided advice.
Let’s be clear, the employment picture and job search rules can change at the speed of light. So good advice today, may not be as relevant or helpful in six months.
Bad advice today rarely – hell, never – becomes good advice later.
Like someone telling you it is OK to be a job hopper. Nonsense.
In five years, when you are sitting in front of an interview panel for your dream job, and they start asking you about your job-hopping, you are probably toast. Job hopping can be justified only in a very narrow set of circumstances.
In 27 years of global recruiting, that rule has been a constant.
Failure In Leadership
Industry-wide, healthcare spends more money to fix problems that never seem to get resolved.
We spend millions of dollars on consultants every year to improve the quality of care and enhance patient safety, but these issues remain a serious problem.
We look to costly consultants to teach us how to improve our employee engagement to enhance their satisfaction and reduce costly turnover. This institutional investment is on top of a significant personal spend for a graduate degree to become “qualified.”
The answer to these problems largely falls to the people we entrust to run these vital community resources.