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Take a Campaign Approach to Career Moves
How To Chart Your Job Search Strategy
Is there a career move in your future? If so, consider the idea of the campaign, and the verb, to campaign. The concept of the campaign might generate for you images of iconic advertising campaigns, historical military campaigns and even memorable political campaigns. Campaigning is about picking a winnable objective and then devising the strategy and tactics to achieve that end. When you campaign, you mobilize your resources towards your end goal. In the r…
Choose the good boss when making a job decision
Evaluating Your Potential Boss During Career Changes
I came across great career advice the other day, backed up by research. I have unfortunately misplaced the source. The advice was as follows:
When you are choosing whether to align yourself with a job opportunity or not (new job, promotion, project), and in particular when you have some choice, pay careful attention to your prospective boss. And when trying to choose between two similar roles, you are far better off going with the person who you…
Positioning is Key when it comes to Job Search
Calculating The Best Position For Job Opportunities
Let’s do the math.
Fewer jobs.
More applicants.
Should = some changes in how you go about marketing yourself
Because I have been through a few downturns of hiring cycles, I can tell you from experience how hiring executives think when it comes to either filling an existing role with a new person or opening up a new role. They want either:
The perfect candidate. One that exactly meets the requirements. No risk in the resume.
Or, someone who can wear se…
International Job Search and Visa Sponsorship
Why would a company go the expense and time commitment of sponsoring a visa for someone, and in particular, someone who hasn’t landed in their target country yet and is trying to do a job search from overseas?
What are the possible reasons or motivations?
The hiring company has multi-country operations (and in particular your home country + target country), and they have had success transplanting professionals from one to the other.
You have domain experience that a company wants. Badly enough that…
Your Job Search Should Never End
Interviewed by the Province newspaper’s Working section for their Sunday edition feature story on the benefits of keeping your antenna up in order to be visible and aware of potential new opportunities out there. AKA the Passive Job Search.
Six Reasons Executive Recruiters will Talk to You
Kennedy Information is an authoritative source for information on executive recruitment and careers. I am pleased to have another exclusive article published in their most recent Executive Agent newsletter and Executive Registry newsletter. Six Reasons Executive Recruiters will Talk to You. Have a read.
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