Finding Your "Bespoke" Position
You must make a job change. Now!
You can wait no longer!
Many of my clients reluctantly come to the decision that they must find a new job. After working for 10 or 15 years, they have skills, experience, reasonable pay... but no more tolerance for:
Bad leadership
Uninspiring work
Career limitations
Staying with a sinking ship
The realization that a job hunt is on their horizon, does not excite my clients. The task of finding a new, better job is really hard. These experienced professionals know that the search will tax their resilience, confidence, and stamina. The reward is a bespoke position--a job that's exciting, energizing, engaging and created with you in mind.
Finding a company that needs an experienced professional's unique set of talents and experience takes more than clicking through Monster.com or Indeed. My clients are not round pegs looking for round holes.
My Career Transition Program offers a structure for your job search, accountability, encouragement, and a place to share your fears, concerns, and triumphs, as you discover the job of your dreams.
Finding a bespoke job takes work.
My Six-Step Career Transition Program starts with:
Step One: Identify skills, talents, and interests.
Step Two: Create a compelling professional narrative.
Step Three: Compile a list of employers, organizations, industries.
Step three is a very important but extremely challenging step.
We first determine what is important to you about your next organization. Because there are millions of public companies, nonprofits, associations, and private companies, we start by eliminating them according to your priorities.
Some of the many characteristics to consider include:
Company size
Business stage
Startup
IPO ready
Established
Organizational structure
Nonprofit
B Corporation
Privately held
Publicly traded
4. Organizational Purpose
5. Industry Type
6. Geographical location
7. Culture
8. Organizational mission/values
Google lists countless websites that provide lists of nonprofits, startups, B Corporations, and businesses operating within specific industries.
Lisa Rangel and Resume writing, career advising expert recommend:
Brainstorm a list of industry leaders as potential targets to pursue in your active quest, provided there are no contractual bindings or non-compete clauses from your previous employers' that might prevent you from doing so. If you have experience and skills in your field, competitors will want to talk to you. Using LinkedIn's Company Search function, you can locate the companies within your industry and narrow down by geography, company size, and your relationship to that company (i.e., whether you have 1st, 2nd, or 3rd-degree connections that work there).
LinkedIn's basic search is another excellent tool for general searches on the platform. Searches can be refined and combined, LinkedIn members can browse by the following criteria:
Connections (1st degree, 2nd degree, 3rd degree)
Connections of other colleagues...
Location
Current companies
Past companies
Industries
Profile language
School
Services
Linkedin Premium Career Version includes valuable upgrades and the first month is free.
Email messages- which allows you to actually email folks without first requesting a connection
You will see who has viewed your profile
Linkedin Learning
Be a featured applicant when applying for a job posted on Linkedin
View competitive Applicant information
Gain detailed salary information
Boost your resume when you apply to a Linkedin posted job
My Six-Step Career Transition program continues with:
Step 4: Getting your LinkedIn page in tip-top shape
Step 5: Start Networking those contacts
Step 6: Interview prep, resumes, and cover letters
A Bespoke Position is possible. It takes work and persistence, but the rewards are tremendous.
Please reach out if you have any questions. If you're ready to find your next professional adventure, use this link to set up a time for us to chat.