Your long term career goals are much more likely to be achieved if you create group of advisors you respect that you can check in with periodically. These are not “friends” who will agree without question with your rationale about why your career is at the stage it is. These are business people you hold great respect for who will challenge and play devil’s advocate with every one of your ideas. The payback of putting yourself under the microscope of other business people can be tremendous. (more…)
Create a personal Board of Directors
Monday, June 30th, 2008Counteroffers benefit the employer not you
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Fact: 70% of executives who accept a counteroffer are gone from that employer within 6 months.
Fact: 85% of executives who accept are gone within 18 months.
A counteroffer is an offer made by an employer in order to keep you on after you have given notice.
The most frequent counteroffers strategies include:
- a promise of a promotion and/or a raise (most frequent response)
- telling you are a traitor to the team or to your boss
- confiding to you that the company you are considering is not that well thought of
Job Security in Recession and Getting Ahead In Any Market - Part II
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Selling Yourself to Management
As I said in my last post, as a recruiter, I am not actually seeing any evidence of a Recession outside of the financial industry. However, many of the strategies that protect you in a bad market also improve your status with in a good market.
- Network to keep your value, your brand, visible at all times with your present management and clients. Networking builds bridges to get things accomplished on an every day basis. You should be networking at 2 or 3 title levels above you as insurance if your boss leaves the company. Network with other departments. Network with people junior to you as they may have very different philosophies towards work.