Catherine Grachev
ICF career coach
What to think about
Calmly analyze the situation by answering a series of questions. Who am I? What are my strengths, values, what are my motivators at work? What inspires me, where do I get my energy from? What are my skills (competences), what market-demanded knowledge do I have, what professional experience I have it already? So you will understand the direction in which you want to develop further.
Then determine what you really want. The goal may not necessarily be a vertical career. Look wider, think also about horizontal career opportunities. It is worth understanding in which related areas you can find application for your talents. Are there any areas at the intersection where you can be unique?
Analyze the market. Explore the requirements of your dream company, what competencies, knowledge you currently lack. Find resumes of other candidates for the positions you are interested in. Compare with yours. What can you do to get to the right level? At a minimum, you can actively engage in self-education - now the Internet has all the opportunities for online learning: read professional forums, books on your topic, look for thematic groups on social networks (there are also interesting vacancies), subscribe to experts in your field.
Update your resume with new information and do it professionally - show it to an expert. When your career goal is based on knowing yourself and your inner desires (rather than conventional standards), then you will be confident in yourself and have more energy to look for new opportunities.
What to fix in a resume
You can panic only in one case - the financial airbag is blown away. When calculating, take into account possible risks: from exchange rate fluctuations to an underestimation of your own monthly expenses. If you have been out of work for a long time, then you probably want too much (and the market cannot give you this right now) or do not know how to sell yourself. If there is a discrepancy between demand and market supply, you will have to solve a dilemma - to settle for less today or wait. If you decide not to wait - start moving. If the problem is selling yourself as a specialist, then analyze the resume and work on self-presentation skills.
Rewrite resumes according to the requirements of each specific job and company. The recruiter will "filter" you if they don't see keywords that match the requirements.
In the past, it was essential that relevant experiences be recorded in work book. Fortunately, this is not the case now. Companies look not at the record in the labor and even not at the actual experience, but at concrete results. Highlight them on your resume.
Use more active verbs (“made”, “developed”, “implemented”), voice the numbers confirming your result. Broadcast active position- it confirms that you are ready to take responsibility for the result.
Do not announce the desired salary until the first face-to-face meeting with the employer. First - the benefits that the business will receive from you, after - how much it will cost the company. It is especially important to consider this point if you are more expensive than the market. For example, when we selected a product coach at Mango Telecom, we considered only those candidates whose salary requirements fall into our fork. They did not even consider CVs of candidates with requests higher than we can offer. During the interview, one of the candidates announced a higher amount, but I already liked the specialist. In addition, I realized that he would close another important area, and went to negotiate the possibility of a higher salary for him. The expert will always bring added value. Now he works in our company and in addition to training employees, he also mentors novice managers.
What affects the number of invitations
Your profession is "developer" mobile applications”, work experience for three years, do you have a portfolio? The search time will be a negative value - most likely, you have offers from employers before changing jobs. You - Chief Editor publications with a low rating and do not understand what colleagues from successful media are talking about? Six months of searching is your minimum. It is employee hygiene to monitor objective indicators in your industry from time to time, which can affect the search time. For example, with the help of such data.
Search time is directly affected individual characteristics candidate: objective (professional level and experience, possession of search and self-presentation skills) and subjective (motivation to search, expectations from future work, ambitions).
What slows down the search:
You are applying for a high position and salary. Top managers are unhappy people. As soon as they fall out of a certain circle of connections, the search for a job that meets the needs and expectations turns into painful work.
Your age is solid, and your qualifications are low. An excellent doctor, an excellent engineer, an experienced builder will find work at any age. A resume for the position of a junior copywriter indicating the experience of "courier", "loader", "cashier" in combination with age 45+ can be compared to a search brake.
Personal passivity (you don't send responses, you don't update resumes, you don't use personal connections).
How to solve a problem
If work is needed yesterday, then it is too late to engage in prevention. Personal activity is the most basic tool. Online, these are responses to vacancies and the correct resume settings. the main objective that an online resource can solve is getting an invitation to an interview. Each item on your online resume influences the employer's decision to meet with you. Every missing or sloppy section is a wasted opportunity. Based on the experience of searching for a Superjob, for example, we see that if a person writes “not ready” in the “business trip” column, then the number of invitations will be 1-2% less.
Again, online is powerful, but not the only tool. If you are looking for a job, then expand your circle of contacts: former colleagues, friends, relatives, project partners, college friends, members of professional groups in in social networks. According to Superjob.ru, 85% of personal recommendations lead to successful employment.
Where to look for alternatives
A long job search is, first of all, an opportunity to revise your experience and skills. Let's say you correctly reflected your experience in your resume, correctly wrote transmittal letter, regularly monitor vacancies and are ready for an interview. But in the current environment, when massive layoffs create tremendous competition for jobs, and the employer chooses a new employee from ten similar candidates, this may not be enough. If you can’t find a job for a long time, it’s useful to think about what other industries your skills can be useful in.
For example, if you have worked as an economist, financial knowledge and experience in Excel is applicable in planning - for example, in positions in the Digital field, where many new employees are hired. If you have worked in procurement, the experience of finding and working with suppliers, drafting contracts can be applied in an event agency or in a project organization. While continuing to regularly track jobs in your current profession is wise, you should also take the time to develop your skills and explore other industries.
sometimes look for new job accounted for in particularly difficult conditions - not yet retired from the old one. What if there is no way to go to interviews and track vacancies? Read how to act in such a situation!
It does not always make sense to hide from colleagues and the manager that you are looking for another job. However, if you are not yet firmly convinced of your own plans or just want to undertake a “reconnaissance in force” (suddenly something really worthwhile comes across), the search should be done with caution. If you decide to keep everything a secret, you should know a few simple rules.
Keep your resume "closed"
Your resume should be published on the site in private access: then only those employers whose vacancies you apply for will see it, and not recruiters from your current place of work. But there is a more daring option: post your resume in partial access, closing it only from the current employer.
Download or update the mobile app
Do not browse job search sites from your office computer - do it at home, but rather use it.
Be careful on social networks: in the comments, do not show interest in any vacancies, do not join open groups like "Jobs for Accountants" (your colleagues may notice this). And, of course, do not publish posts like “I am looking for a job, thanks for the repost.”
Finally get encrypted
Are you sure that personnel service your company does not monitor sites for job search, scoring the name of the company in the search? If you 100% need to keep everything private, replace your company name with its description. For example, instead of MTS LLC, you can write "leading telecom operator."
All telephone conversations only talk to recruiters when your colleagues can't hear you.
Please include only your mobile phone and personal (not corporate) email address for communication.
Cancel useless interviews
The most difficult thing in this situation, of course, is to go to interviews. How and when to meet with future employers if you have to be in the office at least from 9 am to 6 pm?
Try to minimize the number of wasted interviews. Before making an appointment, ask the recruiter a few questions by phone or chat to make sure that this job is really interesting for you. This will save you the hassle of traveling to interviews.
We decided to meet with a potential employer in person - arrange an interview after hours, for example, at 8-30 am or 7 pm. If this is not possible, ask your current job for a day off the day before or agree on a 2-3-hour absence. Don't come up with systematic "good reasons", just say that you need a couple of hours to sort out pressing personal matters.
Good luck in your job search!
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Find Good work- that’s another quest, and sometimes you don’t immediately guess that you got into a so-so company. But there are certain signs that make it clear that it would be better to run away right from the interview. Liz Elfman, Founder & CEO recruitment agency E-Squared believes that it is not always easy to notice them, and therefore it is important to listen to your intuition.
website collected several bright "red flags", which would not hurt to pay attention to everyone who is looking for a job and does not want to waste their time and energy in vain.
1. Your potential boss is late. Very much delayed
You came to the interview exactly on time and now you sit and wait. You examined every dash on the ficus leaves, standing next to with your chair, but there is still no director or HR manager. It's been 40 minutes and you're all waiting. Half an hour later, the situation does not change.
The best thing for you right now is to get up and leave. Your time at this company is no longer valued. It is unlikely that anything will change when they hire you.
2. You never found information about the company on the Internet
She does not have her own website, she is not mentioned on others. This should already alert you. And then suddenly you find information that the company was created and registered as entity 2 days ago.
Of course, to stand at the origins of some very profitable business and then saying "I've been here since they opened" can be a tempting idea. But are you sure that this company will succeed? And you really, really don’t feel sorry for your time to create everything from scratch?
3. During the interview, you are offered a completely different job.
Your resume was written for a specific desired position. You only want to work in this position and no other. And the interview goes well, but all of a sudden HR offers you to try yourself in a completely different position. Usually, we are talking about a position lower than the one you originally applied for.
Sometimes in this way recruiters check the motivation of employees. Or we can talk about a completely different situation: your skills indicated in the resume are suitable for the employer, but someone has already taken your position. For example, the son of a mother's friend. And who knows when he will release her now.
4. Work Schedule or Salary Are Topics Recruiters Try to Avoid
Perhaps this information was not even indicated in the job description, and perhaps it was, but when you decided to clarify this issue before signing the contract, you did not receive a definite answer.
This is a huge red flag that you should immediately pay attention to. If you are not told about something directly, then everything is not so smooth with this. No one wants to work hard for a small salary and still see their family for a couple of hours before bed every day. Just run.
5. You are the only candidate, and they are ready to take you right away
There is no one else in the reception except you, and this is a little surprising. And then you go into the office of the HR manager, and after a short discussion of your future duties, they are already ready to offer you to sign a contract.
Everything seems to be just perfect. And what's the catch? Think about why you are the only candidate and why you are not offered additional interview stages (for example, with your immediate supervisor). Maybe they are already desperate to find someone for this position? Read the contract carefully. Maybe the worst is written in small print?
6. You are not offered to sign a contract
After discussing your future duties and working conditions, you are ready to conclude a contract with the employer. But you are not asked to do so. The HR manager just verbally assures that you are perfect, and the contract supposedly should be drawn up by your immediate supervisor, but he is not in place right now.
Further, the situation may develop as follows: you regularly go to work for almost a month, but your manager is still not there. And then he appears, and it turns out that he does not need such a specialist or a specialist for another position. But since you have already been hired and you seem to be doing well, then they are ready to offer you a job in a lower position. Well, the salary is a little less, of course.
Yes, the salary announced at the interview seems attractive. But when you were read an endless list of your duties, you felt dizzy. And all this should be done by one person? Probably yes, and your predecessor didn't manage it.
By the way, here it would be appropriate to ask what happened to the employee who held this position before you. If he is recovering from a nervous breakdown because there was too much work, or he is taking an anger management course because he is tired of answering for his own and others' mistakes to his boss, then it's definitely time for you to leave.
8. Relationships between employees are familiar or openly asked how you feel about workplace romances
The situation is even worse if you are openly asked about how you feel about workplace romances or male bosses if you are a girl. And everything is just terrible if this same male boss asks such questions. Perhaps he was not initially interested in your professional skills and he simply did not look further than the photo in the resume.
9. You have interviews with two managers, and they are very controversial interviews.
You were warned in advance that recruiting would be carried out in several stages, and this suited you. But who could know that your immediate supervisor and head of the company is so different people and their requirements for the applicant are fundamentally different?
Think right away: are you ready to obey two bosses who will want completely different things from you? And they probably will not be able to reach a common opinion on many issues. Guess who will be responsible for this?
We are in website We believe that during an interview it is important not only to notice all sorts of oddities, but also to listen to your inner voice, if it convinces you that you need to run away from this place right now. What do you think? Maybe you, too, have already realized at the interview that you don’t want to work in this company? Tell us about it in the comments.
Autumn - best time to change jobs, at least according to business coaches and other representatives of the motivational community. Holidays are over, and the market is seeing a noticeable revival. An increase in employer activity is an expected September trend, which often plays into the hands of job seekers. Recruitment is opened in almost all categories, as a result of which candidates can find and choose the most optimal offer. If they are qualified, of course. But there is also an influx of candidates who decide to change jobs just after the summer vacation.
Personnel officers are cautiously preparing for the autumn surge: resumes, applications, and, consequently, the amount of work they have increases significantly. Not only qualified specialists apply for work, but also those who have graduated from universities, who have returned from seasonal work or, for example, a summer rural garden. Increased activity is observed not only among entrepreneurs and companies, but also in the applicant area. So why, then, is autumn considered so favorable, and is it even worth doing employment in the fall? The answer is obvious: depending on who and where!
To whom and where?
It is believed that in the fall it is most difficult to get a job with low qualifications- Low pay scale. This, in particular, trade, a number of working professions, housing and communal services, work in large supermarket chains, etc. Often such positions are vacated in the spring - employees prefer to spend the summer, for example, in the country, in higher-paid seasonal agricultural jobs or in the resort area. In the summer, many vacancies are occupied by schoolchildren and students, who begin to study in the fall and again vacate positions. But seasonal workers return in autumn, and the behavior of employers in this case is very logical and expected: preference is given to proven ones, although former employees- those who have already managed to show themselves. Naturally, "newcomers" in this case will be able to apply only for new positions opened in new organizations.
Those who claim higher positions will also have to compete. In the fall, many specialists who have reached their career peak in those companies in which they have worked for many years decide to change jobs. Plus, they are complemented by those who decide to radically change the type of activity. There are several simple explanations for this. First, they are preparing for spring, after all, it is after a fruitful autumn-winter period that managers are paid annual bonuses. And this is a very pleasant increase, sometimes exceeding a couple of monthly earnings. Secondly, before employment in new company good to have a good rest. Everything is logical, because at a new place of work, vacation is unlikely to be given earlier than next summer. And then, a new surge in personnel activity will not be earlier than after the New Year holidays, and they are still too far away.
But all this creates an increased supply in the labor market. According to the laws of economics - the higher the offer, the cheaper it is, which does not play into the hands of applicants. M if this may not affect the level of salaries, then the exactingness of recruiters definitely increases. Everything is logical: having 20-30 or even 50 resumes for one vacancy on the table, personnel officers quite justifiably increase the requirements for candidates, finding for themselves the most optimal offer according to the “price-quality” criterion. In the summer, for example, when there is an urgent need to patch up personnel gaps, HRs can be much more lenient towards applicants, because there is not much to choose from. But this does not happen in autumn, in autumn they always demand more, and they try to offer less.
Not the best odds
Personnel officers do not deny that autumn is probably the hottest season for recruiting workers for them. And this is caused not only by the influx of candidates for employment, but also by the activity of the companies themselves. They perceive autumn as a real "fish season" - finding a worthy specialist in September-October is much easier than ever. Plus, it helps to plan for the future. The hiring of a new employee allows the management to “run in” it before the end of the year, and based on the results of this 3-month “test drive”, draw certain conclusions and build financial plans for next year. Including taking into account the requirements for the selection of employees for the post-New Year period. None of them hides that the autumn selection will be really tough and not everyone will be able to pass it. Therefore, you should not quit your old job before a replacement is found - the risk of a fiasco is high.
The upcoming New Year's demand makes retail chains increase their activity, for the same reasons, sales offices of manufacturing companies are recruiting agents and salespeople. To implement new digital projects personnel are selected by IT companies, and construction organizations open a set for future home work. In general, experts talk about a certain cyclicity Russian market labor, which is associated with many public holidays, New Year holidays, recruiting seasonality, etc. For these reasons, it is the autumn period that becomes the most favorable and fruitful in the HR field, which creates real paradoxes for the labor market: the number of open positions is increasing markedly, but finding a job, on the contrary, is becoming more difficult.
And then, if you understand the situation, considering the structure of the movement work force on the market, it turns out that not everything changes so much. So, it is quite logical that vacancies appear not only because of new projects, but as a result of the dismissal of those who decided to change jobs. They, in turn, in most cases occupy open positions in competing firms or firms from a similar industry. It turns out such a cycle of specialists in the market. Well, the main indicators of a surge in activity are formed due to seasonal work and offers for a low salary scale and appropriate qualifications.
The main thing is not to rush!
It turns out that September-October is not the best period for finding and changing jobs?! But what about those who have already decided to make changes in their lives and careers, but have not yet received worthy proposals? The main thing - do not rush! You should not rush to quit, you should not rush to break business ties, and you should not rush with employment either. Of course, looking for a new job while staying at the same workplace is not the most simple task especially for a full-time professional. However, the chances of him taking a more competitive place are much higher. The logic here is very clear: an unemployed applicant is sitting at home and is unlikely to wait for a good offer, so he will agree to not the best offers, because he has nowhere to go. The one who searches while working, on the contrary, can count on a more loyal attitude and a pleasant offer. If the employer is interested in a working candidate, he will have to be “outbid” with good conditions.
An equally important principle of September recruiting is to try to reach all the employers that have aroused interest. Job search is not recommended to cover the exclusively narrow scope of your activity - pay attention to other sectors. You work as a journalist in a newspaper - try yourself in television, as a legal adviser at an enterprise - try to get into a bank or, for example, into a bar. Regardless of the specialization, the larger the resume, the more likely it is to find a new and interesting job.
If you are asked about the desired level of income - do not be afraid to ask for more. It does not matter where you are trying to get a job, even in a field that you have a very mediocre idea about. Why? And what, otherwise, is the point of changing jobs if the level of your income does not grow?!
It's time to change jobs
But the meaning, the fact is that sometimes there is, and very serious. Sometimes we do not notice that the world around us is irreversibly changing. How to understand that the time has come when it is time to change jobs. We have identified 4 obvious signs, in the presence of at least one of which something will still have to be changed. So, you need to change jobs when:
- No time for personal life. Career, experience, material status - this is certainly impressive. But what is the point of all this when there is nothing else but work? It is unlikely that any of the careerists dreams of belonging to themselves only at breakfast or, for example, in the evening shower. Good wage, a respected position, the presence of subordinates - all this makes sense if it leaves time for life.
- Absence career development . The situation is very common, when already experienced employees are not promoted in order to save a place for those who come "under patronage". There are two ways out - either ask for a raise, or leave. Everything is logical - promising specialists need a promotion every 3-4 years.
- Work no longer interesting. Best Job, this is the one on which it is interesting.
- Low salary. Probably the most common reason for changing jobs. And if an interesting option has turned up - feel free to move on, ahead of the New Year holidays, corporate parties and pleasant bonuses.
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