proactively managing your career - minnewebcon
TRANSCRIPT
Proactively Managing Your Career
MinneWebCon 2015
What do you want to talk about?
While at #MinneWebCon you receive an email…
You are in line for a promotion…
We are bumping up your annual review…
We are letting people go today…
Funding for this project has been pulled…
Are you prepared???
Churn
• 17+ years as an IT Recruiter
• Author of Minnesota Headhunter blog
• Frequent local and national speaker on Recruiting/HR, Career and Social Media topics
• Founder of Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp
• Active in the Minneapolis & St Paul technology, marketing and social media community as a sponsor, volunteer & mentor
Oil change
Yearly physical
Fix a roof
Maintain your career
Networking… stop hanging out with who you know
I am in Introvert(I get this is hard)
Meet people today
Follow #MinneWebCon
Find cool kids
Introduce yourself to host(s) of an event
LinkedIn flirting
Build your portfolio
Brag book
Screen shots
Metrics
Increased “x”
Decreased “x”
Results, what was cool about the thing
Maintain and learn skills for your current employer
What are the next, next initiatives
Employer job descriptions
Go to Indeed or any job board
Next step in your career… the path
If tech, learn the business
If business, learn the tech
Is it management, find a mentor
Consulting, find someone with “scars”
If you were me...
Negotiating salary and rates
Make a case, you have a portfolio (right?)
Glassdoor, consulting firms industry sites
1%-3% average increase internal
5%-10% for a job switch
What’s the average increase in the group
$5 an hour
The grass is not always greener on the other side
It’s usually better to water where you are
You will sit in a chair of someone who went to greener grass
Pipeline: Consultants and Contractors
Future of workplace
Do something!!!(what are you waiting for)
Thank You!