MyCareerBrand: Career Transition & Outplacement, Jobsearch Strategy, CV, LinkedIn, Personal Branding

Free Webinar: 12:30pm 11th April 2024. Are you prepared for your job search? If you had to start your search for a new job today, how well prepared would you be? We're hearing a lot about organisations having to restructure their resourcing to better reflect the market and financial constraints. It seems to be across most sectors including the government and private sectors. Will you gain cut-through with recruiters and employers? Find out in this fast-paced 30-minute webinar. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gYxp-QPC Gain insights from our specialist panel, and find out how you can be prepared in 5 key areas. 1: Your Mindset 2: Your Why 3: Your Plan 4: Your Touch Points: > CV > LinkedIn > Cover Letter > Pitch > Interview 5: Your Close-off There will be a job market update from McLaren Associates Limited and a Q&A session where the panel will answer your questions. Delve deeper. Find out more. Be prepared! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gYxp-QPC Brought to you by MyCareerBrand: Career Transition & Outplacement, Jobsearch Strategy, CV, LinkedIn, Personal Branding and McLaren Associates Limited #Careers #Jobs #Strategy #Jobsearch #CV #InterviewSkills

Free 30-minute Webinar: Join us at 12:30 pm. Tuesday 24th September (NZST) Register here: https://lnkd.in/g6Dzkqqr What do you do when you're ready to move on from your current role and the job market is challenging? Is this the right time to explore opportunities elsewhere or should you hunker down in your current role? Clarity of what you are looking for will make a significant difference to the questions you ask during due diligence and enable you to mitigate risk by making the right decision. Teaming with McLaren Recruitment we will present insights on the following key areas: ✅ Job Market Update: Key insights from McLaren Recruitment ✅ Current state: Understand how you got to this point ✅ Objectives: What you need. What you need to change ✅ Actions: Your toolkit to make change happen - the questions you ask and your decision process ✅ Identifying benefits and derailers: Going into the challenge with eyes wide open ✅ Breaking through the barriers and dealing with derailers: Making change happen ✅ Next steps: What you will do now - putting a stake in the ground ✅ Q&A Your webinar panel: MyCareerBrand: Gordon Holmes Craig McAlpine McLaren Recruitment: Nikki Walshaw Kirsty McLaren Join us at 12:30 pm. Tuesday 24th September (NZST) Register here: https://lnkd.in/g6Dzkqqr #careers #jobsearchstrategy #jobs #employment

Want to ensure you have a great career? Best you take charge. In my previous post I wrote about how people who are in their late careers can benefit from having a career plan. The reality is that we can all benefit from having a career plan, no matter the stage of our career. Why is this important? Many people have what I call an “ad hoc” or “incremental career”. They land their first job, often in an area that’s of interest or related to their area of tertiary study. The job goes quite well, and then the next opportunity presents itself. Its assessed and if it provides more skills and experience, is interesting, and hopefully pays more, then the job is taken. This pattern keeps repeating itself. This may be fine, but eventually it may not be. I see a lot of clients who have reached a career ‘brick wall’. They may not like what they’re doing any more, they may be unsure of what they’d like to do in the future, and they don’t know how to get clarity. In short, their career has been left largely to chance. They haven’t been intentional with their career management. When we spend so much of our lives at work (research has found on average 80,000 – 90,000 hours over our lifetime) and it has such a big impact on the rest of our life, it’s really important to invest in developing a career plan. If you have found yourself in this situation, or fear that it could arise, the good news is that it’s never too late to create a career plan. You will be energised and feel in control of your destiny. It gives you every chance to do meaningful work, to leverage your potential and to flourish. No matter your age or stage of career, why wouldn’t you take charge? If you would like assistance with your career planning, get in touch with me and we can discuss your next steps. Craig McAlpine Kaela Hindle Wendy McPhail #career #careerdevelopment #jobchange #coaching

Got a plan for your late career? You’d be wise to have one. What is late career? What does it mean to you? Have you explored what that might look like? For everyone, it’s probably different. It’s not just age related. It’s where you are in your own sense of career stage. Age is just one measure - but, as we’re increasingly aware, it’s by no means the determinant. And it’s most unfortunate it’s been allowed to dominate. Let’s explore late career further. “The huge cost of being made redundant at the age of 60” was the headline of a recent Radio NZ article. For many this would be a scary situation, particularly when finding new employment is currently challenging. There are many good reasons to have a plan for the latter stages of your career. These include helping to: 🟢 maximise your career, subsequent transitions and life after full-time paid work; and 🟣 prepare you to better cope with any unplanned situations that may arise. Expanding on unplanned negative situations, having a well thought through and executed late career plan can help you: 🟣 adapt to changing circumstances such as ▪️ job changes and losses ▪️ personal life changes, health issues and/or family carer responsibilities 🟣 recover from savings shortfalls to attain financial security for retirement There are many good reasons to have a late career plan beyond trying to protect yourself against the above negative situations. A great late career plan can also help you: 🟢 continue learning, ensuring your skills remain relevant and marketable 🟢 maximise your skills, experience and expertise 🟢 leverage mentoring and coaching opportunities 🟢 transition you into roles or sectors that you are passionate about and will provide fulfilment 🟢 make a lasting difference and leave a legacy 🟢 prepare you for life after full-time paid employment reduces or ends Do you want to leave your late career to serendipity, or would you rather plan to maximise your career and minimise the impact of any negative events? I know which I’d rather do. If you would like assistance with your late career planning, get in touch with me and we can discuss your next steps. Craig McAlpine Kaela Hindle Wendy McPhail #career #careerdevelopment #jobchange #coaching

Stuck in your job for now and would like it to be better? When the employment market is challenging it sometimes pays to hunker down in a current role and wait till the market picks up again before starting a job search. If you are wanting to move on this may be driven by aspects of your current job that you don’t enjoy or would like to be better. In the short term, rather than just mark time, think about ways to change things up. You may be able to redesign aspects of your role to increase your job satisfaction. You can utilise opportunities to customise your job by actively altering: ✅ The number, type, or nature of your tasks ✅ Interactions with others ✅ Perceptions of your work through reframing You could alter the boundaries of your job by taking on more or fewer tasks, expanding or diminishing the scope of tasks, or changing how you perform tasks e.g. an accountant creating a new method of forecasting that makes her job less repetitive. You could change your relationships at work by altering the nature or extent of your interactions with other people e.g. a software engineer offering help to co-workers as a way to have more social connections and teach new engineers. You could change the way you view your job by altering how you perceive tasks e.g. a process improvement analyst seeing his work improving the quality of products and reduction of rework as a way to provide customers a better experience. Also, reductions in waste are kinder to the planet - a mindset change from just crunching numbers. Making changes along these lines can deliver wonderful outcomes for you however there are some caveats. All initiatives need to be agreed with your manager and be of benefit to the organisation too. Fulfil these caveats and it’s win/win for you and your employer. You don’t have to stick tight and grin and bear it in your current job until the market picks up. You can make changes now to help make the situation better for you. Craig McAlpine Kaela Hindle Wendy McPhail #jobsearch #jobchange #careerchange #careers

Finding it challenging getting a new job? Here’s some tips. I worked with a client recently to help them determine a new preferred career direction and to get ready to go to market with great resources to support this change in direction. Their job search was successful. Here are their reflections on what helped: ✅ “A cover letter is absolutely vital in explaining why your transferable skills meet the job requirements.  It's very easy to fall into thinking about it as a process or 'tick box' exercise, but it's the opportunity to demonstrate you have the skills they are looking for. ✅ If possible, engage with the recruiter.  Historically I've always considered the hiring manager to be the person to try and engage with, but with the volume of applications I found that wasn't a viable option.  Engaging with HR or the recruitment consultant gave another opportunity to discuss transferable skills and I think this helped get my CV in front of hiring managers. ✅ Networking really is important.  The role I have secured didn't come from networking, but I did manage to find opportunities through networking and even interviewed for a couple of roles as a result of this; they just didn't work out. I also gained valuable learning about roles in my new career path, expectations and current trends that really helped me perform more effectively at interview for the role I've obtained. ✅ Flexibility is more important than I realised. I thought I was quite realistic on what I was prepared to negotiate away from my previous position. For me that was very much accepting lower remuneration.  However, I found that that wasn't where I needed to be flexible. It was more about not looking purely at the specific type of role I was targeting.  My new role is a little bit of a blend of responsibilities meaning I wasn't purely relying on transferable skills but direct experience too.  Everybody will be different, but it's making sure your mindset isn't too rigid on that piece.” Could any of these job search reflections help you with your job hunting? Try them out if you aren’t doing them already. If you would like assistance with your job search, get in touch with me and we can discuss your next steps. Craig McAlpine Kaela Hindle Wendy McPhail #jobsearch #jobchange #careerchange #careers