Now what?
by:
Mike Vanneman
Most of us at some point in our careers will have to look for a new job. A very lucky few will decide on a specific career right out of college, stay in that career for their working life and then retire. This blog post is not for them. It is for you. The hardworking, dedicated professional who was thrown under the bus by your now former boss. It is for the downsized, the pink slipped, the “R.I.F.’d”. It is for anyone who stares down the long road of unemployment and asks “now what?”
The answer addresses each word in the question:
NOW: Immediately, not in 5 minutes, not tomorrow. NOW. The wolf will be at the door. The funds will run out. It will take you 5 times longer to find a new job than you think. It doesn’t matter how much severance you got…it is never enough. (Unless you worked in Investment Banking.) What you have to do NOW is….
PLAN: That is the “what” answer. You must put together a plan, a strategy for how you will find that next job.
Stop scratching your head and realize you have already done this. You have previously promoted a service, a product. You have written a business plan. But this is different. YOU are the product. YOU are the service. The market needs YOU and YOU have to promote YOU!
The plan starts with where you want to end up…what you desire to do. That is your objective. It then segments the potential market—the industries, the sectors, the companies you want to approach. Next, you put together your PITCH…I wrote about that in one of my previous posts (hint…read it). Add to it the metrics by which you will manage yourself with. How many coffee meetings per week, calls into your network per day, referrals from associates per meeting. Set goals. Achieve goals. Build momentum.
There are a myriad of books and articles about how to build such a plan. I don’t need to reinvent that wheel. Google “Career Strategy” or better yet “ Finding A New Job”.
The how-to has already been written.
What you need to do, if you find yourself in this situation is to act NOW and develop you plan. The result will be a more efficient job search and the road down unemployment will be much shorter.
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This is for the downsized, the pink slipped, the “R.I.F.’d”…..
Great post; in a nut-shell
Initiative ………
The power or ability to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task; enterprise and determination.