Year In Transition
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A Year in Transition:Securing a Career in a New
Community
January 2010
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/johnmatechuk
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My Desire Live in the Okanagan Valley and escape the BIG CITY.
Meaningful employment that would continue a successful career:
1. Engaging - mentally challenging2. Appropriate pay3. Entrench my reputation in the community4. Further build my experience and skills
I did not want to have to:
5. Re-train for a new career6. Earn less than what I thought my skills are worth7. Work in a discouraging environment
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My Approach Pre-CBD • Find Associations where I could network – meet the decision makers!
• Seek out and provide volunteer effort in suitable associations
• Cold call and introduce myself
• Buy lunch and discuss my prospect list
• Apply for suitable positions (www.indeed.com) and follow up
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CBD • Somewhat skeptical – “I know how to land a job, Really….Umm…. Not everything!”
• Oh, my resume is bloated?
• Can you say interview prep?
• Informal/formal support and many more resources
• Helped me to help myself
Gave me insight to improve my search experience
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My Approach During CBD There is no magic formula but:
• Network, network, network and cold call
• Dust off and use LinkedIn (early adopter but didn’t utilize it correctly)
• Apply for suitable positions and follow up
• Treat my search as a full-time job!
• Seek out opportunities to promote my personal brand
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My Biggest Learning • People don’t mind if you call them - be yourself
• People are scared of making a poor hire
• It really is who you meet
• The searching never stops – networking is now a way of life
• Dig deeper, and then dig some more, and then a little bit more…
• My personal brand + determination = opportunity
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What Really Happened • Networking and LinkedIn landed me at VeriCorder
• We allow reporters to produce recorded content and multimedia podcasts, and distribute this content automatically into a newsroom system, company website, YouTube, iTunes, RSS feeds, web-mounted IPTV, iTunes U, and a host of other destinations in minutes.
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Future Opportunities • The world is a rapid place and we all have to stay current and think of new ways to work
Did you Know?
Karl Fisch (High School Teacher)Scott McLeod (University Professor)Jeff Brenman (University Student)
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What Does it Mean?Career Longevity:
• Life long learning – career training will be continuous
• Change is so rapid that I have to progress just as fast
• What I know and who I know are very important
• Opportunity knocks once!
keeping current + training who I know = career resilience