How to Re-Enter the Workforce After a Break
In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast’ your host Sheila shares few tips to help as you make the job transition after taking a pause and move towards that goal of getting that next job.
Episode Highlights:
· The first tip would be to assess your needs. She thinks that this is so important because we might automatically assume that we need to jump right back in where we work.
· Your thoughts and responses to some of the questions that she spoke about during today’s episode can really guide you in selecting the possible next roles and career paths.
· Your new resume and the story that you're focusing on should reflect to bring specific facts to the forefront designed to really position you as the expert that your prospective employers are going to be excited about.
· Now that you're armed and ready with your resume and your story, you'll need to start researching companies reaching out to your network scheduling and coffee chats comprising all those things that are involved in job searching.
· These past two years have been very challenging for all of us so you're not the only one, who is in this process, hence keep on going.
3 Key Points:
1. Reflecting while you assess your needs before making a job transition move because time has passed, things have changed, you might have changed, and what you need or want or even what you're ready for that may have evolved.
2. The number one rule with your Resume and LinkedIn is that you need to make sure you are absolutely being honest. Though honesty is non-negotiable, however the highlights of your history can be articulated in a million different ways. Think about the right accomplishments being featured right at the top of Resume. You are absolutely entitled to tell a different, but equally authentic story about yourself to help you move in a new direction.
3. The best way to keep momentum high and disappointment low is to focus on what you can control versus what you can't. You cannot control the exact results, so you might want to set some action oriented goals and keeping on top of those will help you to feel like you're making forward progress.
Tweetable Quotes:
· “Time has passed, things have changed, you might have changed and what you need or want or even what you're ready for, that may have evolved.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “Be thoughtful about the last role or roles that you held and consider how much do you actually want your next role to be similar or to be different?” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “Have you focused on those skills and metrics and experiences that you really want to make sure you highlight and call your potential new employers attention to.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “So, now that you're getting good at telling the story, you want to think about the story that centers you as the hero.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
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