You Need a Major career move, promotion, complete overhaul, change to something new altogether. Now what? Here are some steps to follow:
1. Target companies you’d like to work for. Research them, not only the bottom line, but their products (use cases), company culture, and the people who work there, especially people on the hiring team and HR. LinkedIn is a great resource for this.
2. Follow the companies AND the people at the companies, start commenting on their posts. These comments should add value to what was already said, and also tag the person who posted the information, state or reword what they’ve stated and add to it. Keep going, it’ll take time to establish a connection with people. Don’t ask for any recommendations or help, add validation to what was posted.
3. Find a unique issue that you can solve for the company. Then, begin to formulate a pitch deck for your solution. Find out what you can improve. Make your pitch about helping them, not about yourself. Find the opportunity to present your solution.
Make sure you find out what the Company’s goals and current/future initiatives are. Be the Solution /Bridge.
With your pitch deck show the value you’re adding, without making it about yourself. Add in industry data to validate your information.
5. Outline your ideas, THEN your background.
6. Send your contacts (after establishing them- see #2 above) an email asking for a chat about your idea. Have your pitch deck ready. Make sure it’s in a logical order, and succinct. Also make sure you have prepared some small talk based on what you’ve gleaned from your contacts posts and information pages. What groups do they and you belong to? Have that ready to go!
After the chat, and your contact is onboard with you – THEN the ask can come. Ask for the referral, now you have an in-house cheerleader.
What if you’ve worked with someone and lost contact over the years?
Ok, you’ve lost touch with someone. You met / were friends with someone while working and now Need to contact them regarding a job opportunity. What do you start with? “Hello” ?
Don’t over complicate it.
I’m trying to reach certain people I started out my career with, and worked alongside with for years, but that was 33 years ago too.
I did start with “Hello, it’s been a long time.” We picked up conversation like we hadn’t missed a beat, which I find a lot of in broadcasting. I loved working with and for just about every employer in my career.
Luckily, within the first conversation I was able to bring up the job opportunity, and “my person” said they’d be happy to help. You’ll find most people will, as they have or will need a similar recommendation themselves in the future.
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