So you want a new job? Turns out it's hard work to get a job in this current economic climate. The key is knowing what you want, once you know what you want it is often surprisingly easy to get it. The intense soul searching and life planning required to discover this is beyond the scope of this article so I'll skip ahead.
Simply put to get a job you need to persuade someone who can hire/create a job to think that you would be a good person to hire. That is it. So first we need to find our future boss:
1. Open LinkedIn.com, you are looking for someone senior in your field/area of expertise, the senior the better.
2. Search keywords for the job you want. e.g. Finance AND director
3. Also search companies might require your services or that you want to work for.
4. Narrow down the list to 20 possible bosses in different companies.
5. Get phone numbers from the company website and give them a call!
When you get through treat it as an information gathering exercise, be interested in them and their career, find out how they got their current job, ask them how they got started and any advice they have. If you hit it off on the phone then make sure you ask to buy them a coffee/breakfast/lunch later this week. If you do this I guarantee nine times out of ten you will get an ally in your job search, someone who will give you advice on people to call, interview technique, etc. Just make sure you keep buying the lunches!
Once you have done this 20 times it will seem very easy and hopefully if you didn't ask for a job you will have many coffees and lunches booked in. For these it may help to do some research about their company and industry so that you have something to talk about. Again don't ask for a job but ask them if they know of anything coming up in the market place, competitors recruiting, doing well, etc. Hopefully they will mention something that interests you, it may even be within they're own company/firm.
With all of this groundwork done when a role comes up in your chosen field you will probably get several phone calls and hear about it 'on the grapevine'. You will likely hear about it before anyone else and all you need to do is call up the person recruiting and buy them lunch, look at that; you've organised your own interview! Now go get that job!
And if this sounds too tough or time consuming you can always give a recruiter a call!
If you are interested in any Tax jobs check out Tax Roles. Each recruiter has specialties and will network in their chosen market(s) so that they have their finger on the pulse and will save you a ton of time in your job hunt. I deal with accountants in Scotland, mainly Tax professionals. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more!
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