Will my job title be a deal breaker in finding new work? I work in a higher educational setting. I am not a faculty member so I am lumped in to the only other category: administrative staff. But I’m not an administrator, I am a trained business communicator working at the level of senior manager. While there are things I like about my role and my employer, and I really, really like our leadership, I am a union member by requirement, and the union has tied the hands of our organization so that it is impossible for me ever to be given a job title different from what I currently hold: “co-ordinator.” The problem is that in the communications arena, a co-ordinator is an entry-level job.
How can I possibly find another job commensurate with my ability and experience when my résumé says I am a co-ordinator? If I were the one looking through a pile of résumés for a senior manager position and saw the title of my job – I’d dump me! I will have to break up with my employer sooner or later – but how do I manage the blemish of my title? Position yourself. A Tool for Mapping Your Goals and Resolving Career Indecision - Bill Barnett. By Bill Barnett | 12:00 PM August 23, 2012 When deciding whether to take a job offer, you’re hoping to maximize attainment of your objectives. If an opportunity scores highly against all objectives, you’ll quickly know what to do.
But your choice may not be so easy. You may have two good options. Michael (name has been changed) faced this situation. Everything came together one day in four minutes. Michael didn’t let the numbers tell him what to do, but the way he filled in the matrix showed that consulting was best for him. This matrix isn’t new. A decision to take a job offer can be a close call. First, set objectives. Another way to stimulate ideas is to imagine objectives by category. Two other categories concern what you get from work: money and prestige. Then, evaluate alternatives against your objectives.
Think both about what you believe is likely in the first year or two and where an alternative might lead you over time. Subjectively quantify performance. Top employers reveal the skills they value most. How to build up your personal brand. Build Your Personal Value Proposition - Bill Barnett. By Bill Barnett | 11:06 AM November 17, 2011 Executives set value propositions for their products — the target market segments, the benefits they provide, and their prices. It’s why a target customer should buy the product. But value propositions go beyond just products. Your personal value proposition (PVP) is at the heart of your career strategy.
The question is this: How do you develop a powerful PVP? Take a look at Steve (name has been changed). It’s hard to know what you’re really good at. Steve targets companies from $150 million sales up to $1 billion. Steve also emphasizes his view of the right atmosphere: “I’m not at all into sleazy places, nor into industries like tobacco, alcohol, or casinos. Steve’s leaving out the great majority of corporations, but that doesn’t limit him. Here are four steps to develop a strong PVP: Set a clear target. As you think about your own career strategy, think about Steve and his narrowly defined and distinctive PVP. How to handle a gap in your job history.
Job trends: Taking tech changes into your own hands. Promotions. Professional Presence. Interviewing. Choose Your Boss Wisely - Priscilla Claman. By Priscilla Claman | 11:53 AM April 20, 2011 Most job-seekers aren’t just looking for the right work — they’re looking for the right manager, too. To a large extent a manager will control your assignments and your work environment, so it makes sense to try to learn more about her long before you’re hired. But in an hour-long interview with a hiring manager, you will be lucky to get fifteen minutes to ask your own questions. For this reason, as a job candidate you should not only be concerned with your answers to a hiring manager’s questions, and but also a potential manager’s answers to your questions.
It was early in my career when I first used this technique. I was the interviewee, and let’s just say the hiring manager reputedly had a management style akin to that of a Mafia boss — ruthless, and obsessed with loyalty. “That would be Barbara. I learned more about his management style in that answer than if I had asked him directly. Listen carefully during the interview. Is It Time for a New Job? - John Lees. Five Subtle Ways to Find a New Job - Priscilla Claman.
Why You Still Haven't Gotten a Job - Priscilla Claman. Set Your Own Standards for Personal Success - Management Tip of the Day - September 30, 2011.