The Key to Career Transition
A quick rant this week about how “The times they are a-changin’” just like Bob Dylan noted back in 1964.
Not only does this apply to how we “do business” in a general coming out of the pandemic, but also how we “do” career transition.
Over the course of a career you may change employers 5-10 times, but the majority of these will require little to no effort.
For example, your buddy hooks you up with a job without a resume or your company is acquired and you have a role in the New Co.
Not much has changed in this process from pre to post pandemic...
However, if we look at the gnarlier transition points where you were laid off or are proactively looking for a new role, things are DRASTICALLY different.
Finding a job coming out of the Great Recession of 2008 involved a kick ass resume, lots of networking meetings, in person interviews and maybe some luck through this fancy new platform called “ LinkedIn ” with 500,000 total users…
Fast forward to today, we are looking at WAY less in-person activities (virtual networking, interviews, etc.) combined with a SUPER saturated internet job board interface ( ZipRecruiter , Indeed , etc) and a mature LinkedIn platform with over 875,000,000 users...
Now for the good news!
The fundamentals of finding your next role are the same as they’ve always been back to the beginning of time and it comes down to one word:
TRUST
Trust is why the hiring process is so easy when your buddy hooks you up.
On the other hand, when you start your gnarly search, you are on a journey of building trust with your ultimate future employer.
If you are overwhelmed facing your current search, ask yourself what you can do to build trust with the market.
Where do you have trust built up with your current network and how you can leverage it to build trust with those closest to your future employer?
Your goal every day is to build and stack trust…
Day after day after day…
Until you sign on the dotted line.
And then you keep building it...
Because you never know when you are going to need it or, more importantly, there is someone in your network you want to help.
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Roger Lumpp III?loves helping people find more fulfilling work, faster. He firmly believes WORKERS will gain more and more control over the conversation as we move into the “future of work” and shares his thoughts and observations of the rapidly evolving landscape through The Next Gig newsletter, speaking engagements, podcasts and anywhere else he's needed. Roger is a?Top 100 Staffing Leader to Watch in 2023 Winner?from The World Staffing Awards presented by?Candidate.ly.
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