Is It Time to Upgrade Your Career?
If you are feeling non-essential in your current job, it usually means you are not challenged enough. It’s time to upgrade your career so you feel more utilized!
Here are several steps and mindsets to help get you closer to the job you love:
1. Evaluate your career
What’s missing from your career and what would be better and more fulfilling? Set your goals by aiming 3-5 years from now.
2. Conduct “Informational Interviews”
Conduct informational interviews with successful, connected professional people in management that you know, respect and trust.
3. Study business trends, popular products, and services
Study business trends, popular products and services that are essential in today’s economy (i.e., Data Analytics, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Telehealth, and Emerging Technologies).
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4. Research a minimum of three target industries and the top 20 companies in each industry sector
5. Improve your Linkedin profile
Improve your Linkedin profile to include your passions in your headline banner and “About” section. Make it personal.
6. Increase your Linkedin daily activity
Increase your daily Linkedin activity by clicking the 👍 button, commenting on posts and posting your own articles you find about your selected industries, companies, products and/or services.
7. Learn how to network
Learn how to network with people you meet by tapping into your existing professional relationships. Your Smart Phone contacts, Linkedin, and email are essential places for researching key contacts.
8. Rehearse talking about your “Highest and Best Use” to an organization.
Think about your passions and what you know you are great at doing. Tip: Understand your “WHY” you do what you do?
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9. Create a Job Search Marketing Plan (JSMP)
A Job Search Marketing Plan is an essential blueprint of your strategy that describes who you are, what you do, your career objectives, and your target companies with all your career contacts.
10. Practice your job interviewing skills
Practice your job interviewing skills with a friend, relative or professional career coach. Be ready for all possible interview questions. Script out answers with your career accomplishment stories and examples in advance and rehearse them.
Here’s to your highest and best use…cheers!
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Mark James, CPC is the founder and CEO of Hire Consulting Services (HCS). Established in 1999, HCS is a highly customized executive outplacement and career coaching firm for executive-level professionals.
Mark is equipped with over 25 years of experience in Executive Career Management Coaching, as well as Outplacement and Executive Search Consulting. He is the author of the three best-selling books—Keys to the C Suite: Unlock the Doors to Executive Career Path Success, The Interview Mindset: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Your Career, and The Recruiter Mindset: The Ultimate Guide to Working with Executive Search Recruiters.
Mark uses a proven and successful strategy and structured process to fully enable his clients to conduct a professional job search campaign and with the singular goal of securing their next career opportunity in significantly less time it would take without a career coach. Clients gain a new perspective of their marketing value coupled with executing a strategic plan and closing the deal on their new role in their next job.
