The 12 months is 2016. Not 1999, not 2009, and job looking is certainly not prefer it was in 2015!
It was a rocky 12 months final 12 months with quite a few layoffs, takeovers, acquisitions, and organizational adjustments in Canada. Whether or not you’re in transition, or searching for new alternatives to develop your profession, make your self a couple of of those resolutions!
1. Get on the Cloud or get out!
In the event you can not entry or ship your resume/cowl letter inside 5 minutes of a telephone dialog, you’re too sluggish! No extra, “let me get house tonight and ship you my up to date resume from my desktop PC.” Your up to date resume must be at your fingertips, able to be despatched any second. Whereas Google Drive is a favorite, there’s loads of different cloud storage companies like Dropbox, Field.com, and Microsoft’s OneDrive.
2. Be taught to code!
In the event you’re questioning, “why does an accountant like me have to be taught to code?,” then you definitely’re falling behind. Children in highschool nowadays are studying to code, and studying how it may be utilized to all fields. Automating duties, information administration, and fast reporting will change jobs, cut back headcount wants, and enhance enterprise resolution assist. Toronto is house to many coding bootcamps for SQL, and there are many programs for studying VBA.
3. Understanding expertise developments in your trade!
Going again to #1, get on the Cloud! An increasing number of shoppers are migrating to Cloud-based ERP/CRM programs and instruments to work quicker, smarter, and extra collaboratively. Overlook sharing an Excel file across the workplace and mixing up revisions and overwrites! Be taught to make use of Sharepoint, Google Apps for Enterprise, and Evernote. Attend commerce exhibits and seminars to see what new instruments are developing that may make your day after day simpler, and shut out month finish quicker!
4. Let your smartphone make you sensible!
Be organized, ship emails with zero typos and errors, and on the very least, be taught to show off the ringer throughout an interview! In the event you worry your smartphone, what’s going to you do when the office begins integrating work processes with smartphones past emails and calendars? Make it a promise to your self to be extra tech savvy this 12 months.
5. Replace your LinkedIn Profile!
You have to be doing this regularly, similar to your resume. Including and eradicating objects which can be related to your targets, accomplishments, and objects you wish to be seen for. Join and reconnect with outdated colleagues, distributors, and shoppers to broaden your community.
6. Talk prefer it’s 2016!
Voicemail will go the way in which of the fax machine, fade away and disappear. E-mails and on the spot messages are simpler. Whereas it nonetheless doesn’t change dwell telephone conversations, it’s way more environment friendly to message somebody to rearrange a time to talk over the telephone. A voicemail takes 1-3 minutes to depart a message, and one other 3-Quarter-hour for the receiver to name into their voicemail field and hear to each message in chronological order. Ensure you’re holding updated with the newest types of communication.
7. Replace your LinkedIn Profile Photograph!
Be sure it’s easy, and correct. Some LinkedIn profile images are unprofessional, from incorrect white stability and off-colour, cropped group images, and taking a photograph of a printed picture. A photograph is a thousand phrases, make sure that it says all the appropriate ones about you.
8. New 12 months, new go well with!
Gown your finest for interviews! It’s all the time a good suggestion to replace your wardrobe infrequently. It is likely to be a very good New Yr’s Decision to purchase a brand new interview outfit or two!
9. Lose the perspective from 2015, begin recent in 2016.
If final 12 months was tough for you, whether or not it’s a troublesome job search, failed interviews, getting handed on promotions, or restructuring, begin this 12 months with a recent optimistic outlook. New Yr means new alternatives! Change your morning routine, and you’ll really feel the distinction in your day, at work, and in entrance of interviewers.
10. Cease doing the identical factor time and again!
As Einstein as soon as mentioned, “madness: doing the identical factor time and again and anticipating totally different outcomes.” Do one thing totally different, ask somebody for recommendation, and alter your method. Take the time to step again, evaluation, and strategize.
The job search is a journey you don’t need to go alone, The Mason Group’s Search Consultants can be found to supply perception, share nice alternatives, and advise your subsequent profession transfer.