Get Prepared for a Career Change!

Hav­ing estab­lished a cer­tain sta­tus (and com­fort level) in an organ­i­sa­tion, we have lost out dili­gence and hav­ing the details for a job change.  We over­see infor­ma­tion that the employer need and most of the time, is the ego within us that is a show stop­per when we are look­ing for a good career.  Today, we present to you things that you should note before you start send­ing resumes out if you are an expe­ri­enced pro­fes­sional.  Con­tinue read­ing to find out the details that you should be aware of now!

1. Be pre­pared for any con­ver­sa­tion from the employer – The first and fore­most thing that you should do is have a clear pic­ture and overview of what you are doing and what you have done so far in your past employ­ment.  They called in to get a clearer pic­ture of your employ­ment and in this phone con­ver­sa­tion; you are sup­pose to give this piece of infor­ma­tion to them.  To do that, make a short or com­press list of things that you’ve done out of the resume.  Cat­e­go­rized into log­i­cal sec­tions which they can absorb eas­ily.  In this way, you demon­strated that you are sure of what you are doing, giv­ing them the con­fi­dence in employ­ing you (or rec­om­mend­ing you).
2. Ask for the real employer details and job descrip­tion – If you are going through a recruit­ment agency, do feel free to ask for the real employer details.  Like­li­hood is that they will not reveal to you as they may be afraid that a direct con­tact be made by you.  How­ever, some­times, you may be sur­prised that they do tell you the actual employer details.  Also, what most of us for­get is the job descrip­tion.  Do remem­ber to ask for the job descrip­tion in the form of email so that you can refer to when you are free.   Why?  Most recruit­ment agen­cies will call at office hours and you may feel uneasy to dis­cuss openly and there­fore it’s best for them to send you the job description.
3. Can you take blunt com­ments? – This may be dif­fi­cult for mid-career changes.   Espe­cially if you are not hold­ing a junior posi­tion any­more.  Ego is high and you expect employ­ers to look up on you.  Take note, unless you are those high-paying-everybody-wants-CEO, you can for­get about your ego!  Your work expe­ri­ence may not be fully applic­a­ble in the employer’s envi­ron­ment and they may make com­ments (mock) at your expe­ri­ence.  Exam­ple, “Are these what you do for the past two years?”, “Is that all?”  Take these com­ments pos­i­tively.  The good thing is at least you know what is lack­ing for you to hold the prospec­tive position.
4. Give the recruit­ment agen­cies time – Lastly, this is the final advice that we have.  The recruit­ment agen­cies may eagerly want to fill the posi­tion.  Why?  Because fill­ing the posi­tion means cash­ing the profit for their com­pany.  How­ever, they still need time to com­mu­ni­cate back and forth with the employer and nego­ti­ate your base­line pack­age with them.  There­fore, don’t get worked out or dis­heart­ened that they never get back to you.  Give them some time and they will get back to you. Because once you passed their first screen­ing, they already have inter­est in get­ting you into the employer and want to have a proper clo­sure with you.  Also, if you fail to secure the posi­tion, you will still be in their prospec­tive list for other employ­ers too!

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