I want a new job, now what?

Written by Nicole Langston
CAREER CONNECTORS ~ KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
I Want a New Job, Now What? ~ Speaker, Sierra Collister

Sierra Collister is a local Gilbert resident with 15 years of progressive sales and marketing experience, specializing in building multi-million dollar brand strategies for consumer products on Amazon.com. Her broad experience in the business world includes management roles for diverse organizations including large publicly traded companies and small family owned businesses. In her career, Sierra has survived (and thrived) financial restructuring, re-organizations, layoffs and more. Sound familiar?

SIGNS IT’S TIME TO LOOK FOR A NEW JOB:
Whether you are in between jobs, in a bad job, or were passed over for a promotion. (That bites!)

1. Maybe things are not going well with your boss, your coworkers.
2. Maybe it’s not a good culture fit for you.
3. Maybe you are depressed about work, when you aren’t there or even when you are there. If there are times that you wake up and feel like you have a brick sitting on your chest, then that is a sign.
4. Maybe your company has had multiple rounds of layoffs, and you are going down.
5. Maybe your job has advanced/changed in skills, but you aren’t getting the compensation aligned for that level of experience.
6. Maybe your skills are not being utilized and you are bored.
7. Maybe your stress has become unmanageable and it is spilling into your personal life.
8. Maybe you have lost your work/life balance entirely.
9. Maybe you have a unique reason not included here, maybe your personal life goals have changed.

“Nothing happens, until the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change. – Arthur Burt”

LET’S GET STARTED
Sierra is excited to help provide tools to find your next role. Even if you aren’t currently active on social media, there are many tools that are needed for your professional search.
What does your social network say about you?

• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

Sierra uses the last 3 channels for personal branding or personal life. LinkedIn is non negotiable, you have to be on it, as it is your digital resume. Personally she doesn’t connect with coworkers on the last 3 either, but that is her preference.

• 60% of hiring employers use social networking sites to research job candidates.
• 2 in 5 employers said they are less likely to interview job candidates if they are unable to find information about the person online.
• She highly recommends Googling yourself! That is the first thing an employer will do.
• Work on branding yourself positively and professionally.
• Clean up and work on your name profile results. If you happen to have one bad review, then get active on social media to move that negative rank/presence down and the new activity to drive positive up.
• 50% of hiring managers who screen candidates via social networks said they’ve found information that caused them not to hire a person.
• Hiring managers will google you!

Social media photos – the Biggest Offenders:

• Inappropriate drinking or drug use
• Bigoted comments
• Bad mouthing previous employers

Keep in mind your audience.  Your LinkedIn profile picture should be a professional headshot.  Get one here today! Sierra recommends updating every 3-5 years as long as image still looks like you.

SELF-ASSESSMENT

• Elevator speech
  • Script it out until it feels natural. Focus on your top 3 skills or super powers.
  • She always ends with an open ended question for the interviewer. It gets them to answer/reply.

“Hi, my name is Sierra, but some people call me the Queen of Amazon.com. That’s because I work with companies to …. At your company, how do you handle your business on Amazon.com?

• What do you want to do with your career? (next one)
• Career Assessment – CC includes some resources for free to attendees (DISC Assessment)
• Career Coaches – CC includes coaches onsite at events (LinkedIn, Resume, Social Media, Financial)
• Clean up and update/optimize your LinkedIn profile!
  • Recommendations – give and get recommendations on profile
    • Usually a client/vendor/partner is best, never your boss, only a coworker if you know they will be discreet
  • Skills
  • Endorsements

*Again the Career Connectors coaches can help you with these items

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