1. Optimizing Your Job Search
Presented by:
Bruce Randall, CRIEC
Richard Bucher, Right Management

2. After Layoffs....Impact on your Workforce
Agenda
Moving beyond the job posting
Build on who you are
Build on marketing collateral
Build on career options
Build on the vehicles

3. Moving Beyond the Job Posting
Ride the job posting to a vertical market
Tap the job posting for its wealth of content
Two “must do’s” for each job posting
Two applications for each job posting

4. Build on Who You Are Your technical strengths Your core competencies
Your brand and its accompanying stories

5. Demonstrate you are “valuable talent”
Make the case that you are a valuable talent by demonstrating the following:
The abilities and competencies you have and your particular strengths: Analytical, leadership, follow-through.
How you see organizations developing during the next two years and how and where you can make a contribution.
Your notable achievements and how you are developing yourself professionally.
Your unique characteristics e.g., sense of humour, straight-talking, decisive, innovative, logical. (What is your style? How do you differentiate yourself?)
Wherever possible, give specific examples as they carry much more conviction.
Differentiate yourself.

6. Build on Marketing Collateral
Resume
Cover Letters
Summaries/Sizzle Sheet
Networking Brief

7. Build on Career Options
Determine your choices.
Set a hierarchy and apportion your time
Have an exit strategy
Have a return strategy .

8. Build on Search Vehicles
LinkedIn
Up to date; professional; relevant
Knowledge-sharing
On-line formats; facilitating workshops; career sessions
Information coffees
30 minute meetings
Volunteering
Big Ticket; lend experience;
Networking
Relationship Building