by Peter Lloyd for IT Experts, Job Hunting, Job Market Updates
Once again a few odds and ends, mostly odds, about what’s been going on in the job-search world since I’ve been blogging here at Talent-Centric. This time the emphasis is on Information Technology news that did not quite deserve a post of its own.
1. Apple’s Steve Jobs Not Time’s Person of the Year
This has been a strange year for awards. First a president waging two foreign wars wins the Nobel Peace Prize, then Ben Bernacke is named Time’s Person of the Year. But at least Steve Jobs was a finalist this year. Had Jobs won it would not be a first for people working in information technology. In 2006 You, meaning everyone providing internet content, were Person of the Year. Andrew Grove of Intel won the dubious title in 1997, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com in 1999. Pretty pathetic for an era dominated by information technology.
2. An IT Job with Growing Demand and a Cool Title
As long as the internet and information technology keep opening up new doors to information and ways to process and move it, government agencies and private enterprises will have to pay IT professionals to protect that information. To help protect the world from cybercrime you have to know your stuff, of course, but you’ll also need to jump through all sorts of security clearance hoops.
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by Peter Lloyd for IT Experts, Job Hunting
All right, I’m a man writing about employment in information technology as well as employment in the marketing and creative fields. But I am aware that whatever I read about, learn about, or experience in the world of job hunting, proves to be tougher for women. It’s more difficult for women to find work and when they do, they still earn less than men doing the same job.
Laura DiDio of E-Commerce Times advises women in her article “Breaking Out of the Pink Ghetto” to “get serious about networking.” She says the objective for women should be to “make networking an integral part of their daily routines, formalize their efforts and set specific goals.”
That’s pretty much what most of us, men and women, understand about networking. But women need to understand that networking the same way men network may not be good enough. Read the rest of this entry »
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by Peter Lloyd for Creative Experts, IT Experts, Job Hunting
Boy Scouts say, “Be prepared.” Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors the prepared mind.” I used to say, “Why should I go to class when I can always cram and pass?” Okay, forget the last one.
The point is, there’s a lot you can do, you should do, before you even have a bite from your next potential employer. Even though you’ll have weeks—three to eight or more—between the time you take your first shot and the day you hit or miss your target, now is the time to prepare at least some elements of what you will use before, during, and after your attack.
Landing a job in information technology as well as in the creative and marketing fields requires solid preparation. Having as much of what you need ready will enable you to respond proactively the instant you have a job prospect in sight. You’ll look better as a potential hire and feel better as a job hunter. Read the rest of this entry »
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by Peter Lloyd for Creative Experts, IT Experts, Job Hunting
I’ve been reading about “design thinking” for a while now. The earliest citations I’ve found go back to about 2006. But like quality, intellectual capital, ideation, teamwork, empowerment, thinking outside the box, benchmarking, multitasking, solutioning—see Overused Words & Phrases—this new wave brings a lot of water from older waves back to the beach.
Of course, those of us looking for jobs in creative, marketing, and information technology fields need to be conversant in the latest lingo. Especially if it’s overused! We don’t want to be caught with our jaws slack if asked in an interview, “How do you feel about design thinking?” Read the rest of this entry »
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
An old German woman summed it up for me many years ago. She said, “One man has the money, the other has the bag.” It took me a while to understand the subtle truth of this adage.
In most negotiations each party has something the other wants. In most cases, it’s a matter of money on one side and value on the other. In the case of landing a job, the potential employer has the ability to pay the other a lot of money over time. These days the party with the money has most of the leverage, because the value in your bag is diluted by the great number of people available to bring the same.
I ran across Five Rules for Pitching the Very Rich and sent it to a friend who is raising money for an online enterprise. It struck me as I scanned the article that these rules might apply to my job search. In particular, the job interview. Read the rest of this entry »
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
Let’s say you get the job. Now there’s about a 46% chance you’ll be gone in a year and a half. Not because you weren’t qualified. Not because you didn’t work hard and do you a good job. You can lose your new job because some companies make a mess of on-boarding.
It takes time to get new employees up to speed and not all companies are willing to do it right nor do some of them know how to do it right. But you can take some steps to make sure your creative talent is not wasted and eventually lost in the mismanagement of bringing you on board. Read the rest of this entry »
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
I should have known when I attempted to list—comprehensively, I foolishly thought—some semblance the world’s most noteworthy working songs in Working Songs, a Musical Interlude that I would miss some. But not so many and, among them, so many classics!
L. C. Sterling, in Certified Professional Writers, quickly reminded me of maybe the most direct, no-holds-barred of them all “Take This Job and Shove It” by Johnny Paycheck. Read the rest of this entry »
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