Job Search - The Best Job For You When Jobs are Hard To Find

by Martin Yate 21. July 2009 09:08
We all want a better job than the last one, but you can take this to the bank in any economic climate: you get hired on credentials not potential.

Even when jobs are plentiful, most people don't get promotions to the next step up the professional ladder when they change jobs, because that would mean the employer gambling on an unknown quantity in a job the candidate had never done.

Typically, most professionals accept a position similar to the one they have now, one that hopefully offers opportunity for growth once their mettle is proved. This is why that next important step up the promotional ladder is better pursued the moment you start that next job and not when you start a job search in a tough economy.

Exceptions

  1. When you are already doing that higher-level job but without the title recognition
  2. The bigger the company the smaller the job title, so in a smaller company your skills might genuinely warrant a higher title.
  3. When you can successfully combine experience and credentials from a number of jobs into a new in-demand configuration .....Read More

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Business Bestseller
10 books in 25 languages

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