Do you have a career plan?

Prioritise

List

Action

Negotiate

Prioritise

• What are your reasons for considering a career move?
• What is important to you – is it progression, salary, benefits, working pattern, location, or to work for a specific company?
• What direction would you like your career to go in – are you keen to make a step up, or are you looking for a role that best fits with your current life stage?
• Have you taken professional advice at this prioritisation phase, and do you have an understanding of what opportunities there are in the current market?

List

• What locations / travel time is feasible for you?
• Have you written down the sectors and companies that are potentially of interest to you?
• Do you understand your USP’s and what may be attractive to potential employers? For example, costing experience gained in a manufacturing environment is likely to be highly sought after by firms that make their own products. Or experience of working with internationally focussed companies will be appealing to firms with aspirations to move into new markets and geographies.
• Are you positioning your key skills and attributes in the best way when looking to make the career move you want?

Action

• Make that move, take the first step – procrastination is the ‘thief of time’.
• Ensure your CV is up-to-date and is showcasing your career achievements and USP’s.
• Speak confidentially with a recruiter who is established in their market and has the ear of key decision makers. Circa 30% of vacancies filled by recruiters are likely to never have been advertised. 
• Interview preparation ahead of your job search is critical, again your consultant can support you in becoming interview ready. 

Negotiate

• Now that you have secured a job offer, it is time to negotiate. 
• If a career move is going to break down, in the majority of cases this is the point when it will do so (or at the Action stage when procrastination prevents you from submitting an application!). 
• There are lots of variables to discuss and be considered –
• Salary
• Benefits
• Working pattern
• How you will be measured
• Progression opportunities
• Navigating the resignation process

 Having an ‘agent’ as such, to act as the go between, and often bring a process back from the brink, really can be the difference between ultimately accepting or declining an offer. For a recruitment process to be successful, the hiring company and the applicant both have to be comfortable with the outcome of the negotiation, and good recruiters are experienced in finding that equilibrium.

Please get in touch with Amplifi Talent if you are ready to PLAN. We have been recruiting in our local markets for a combined 60 years, utilising our experience and networks to bring talent together.