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Need to market yourself, but juggling priorities?

April 20, 2014 By // by DigitalJenIPC

Many people want to make a career change, but don’t start. Lacking time, they are always juggling priorities but investing time in marketing themselves, essential to create a career change isn’t one of them. Here are some tips:

10 tips to make time for marketing yourself

1. Language – use words that feel motivating when diarising marketing yourself activities, e.g. ‘career development project’;

2. Diarise – block out time regularly – 10 minutes a day adds up over time. So does 0 minutes a day;

3. Goal – have a S.M.A.R.T goal for your career (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timed), and a clear step-by-step plan to achieve it;

4. Environment – Do tasks away from the office where client’s needs beckon e.g. in a coffee shop near work;

5. Enjoyable – focus on the aspects of marketing yourself that you enjoy, e.g. some people enjoy writing articles, other people prefer chatting 121;

6. Appealing – focusing your marketing efforts on attractive employers who you feel excited about working with because you relish their culture or because there are opportunities for progression and involvement in decision making;

7. Bite sized – creating timed small tasks e.g. tag LinkedIn connections or e mail an influencer an update reduces overwhelm;

8. Expert help – select an experienced career coach to keep you focused.

What tips would you add?

Making a career change takes time and investment in your own marketing, but if you action at least one of these tips, you will move forwards.

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18 reasons why people stay doing a job they hate

March 15, 2014 By // by DigitalJenIPC

Spring is a time of growth and new shoots. It can also be a great time to change your work, but many don’t.

Here are 18 reasons why people stay put doing a job they hate:

1. Inertia
2. Fear of change
3. Like staying in comfort zone
4. It is easier NOT to make a decision
5. Lack time
6. Laziness
7. Want to get redundancy pay off
8. Financial commitments e.g. large mortgage
9. Dependents e.g. children going through University
10. Anxious about career change
11. Planning to have a child and want to take maternity leave
12. Worried about losing employment law rights if they move companies
13. Don’t know what else they want to do
14. Lack time to think/plan
15. Not sure what their transferable skills are and what they would be useful for
16. Find it hard to get a job elsewhere – common for over 50’s
17. Want to build pension for retirement
18. Self-employment feels too scary

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Starting a new job – success tips part 3

February 2, 2013 By // by DigitalJenIPC

The start of a new job is crucial to make a positive impact, especially if you are on a probation period. Changing jobs and getting used to a new culture, people and systems is a lot all at once.

This blog, part 3 of 3, shares 10 tips to make a great impression at the start of your new job.

Identify key messages that you want to give out about your role and contribution
Diarise time each week to get in touch with your stakeholders and build relationships
Apply customer relationship management (CRM) principles with your key stakeholders – take notes after every interaction and refer to them before communicating
Find out who the powerful connectors are internally of information and people
Establish the politics so you don’t unwittingly ‘tread on landmines’
Identify some ‘quick wins’
Make time once a month to reflect on the learnings
Be yourself
Connect/follow key stakeholders on Twitter and LinkedIn
Attend industry/profession networking events to get up to speed with issues affecting the sector

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Starting a new job – success tips part 2

January 25, 2013 By // by DigitalJenIPC

Starting a new job is an important and sometimes stressful event. It is crucial to make a positive impact and achieve some ‘quick wins’, but not rush in and make too many decisions/changes without consideration or you could ruffle a few feathers.

If you have a probation period when starting a new job and need to prove yourself before securing a full time contract, the first 100 days are especially important.

Starting a new job means getting used to a new culture, people and systems – a lot of change all at once. This blog, part 2 of 3, shares success tips.

Introduce yourself to as many people as possible
Ask advice
Invest time getting proficient at the firm’s IT systems and policies
Establish any ‘elephants in the room’ i.e. things that don’t get talked about even though they are obvious
Set yourself goals for each day, week and month
Get a coach to support you and make the first 100 days a success
Attend any free lunchtime sessions/social events to immerse yourself in the organisation to expose yourself to people
Ask everyone you meet what are the 3 best things about the organisation and the 3 things that if changed would take it to a higher level
Note the dress code and adjust yours accordingly
Reflect on the value you bring after the first 30, 60 and 90 days

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Starting a new job – success tips part 1

January 19, 2013 By // by DigitalJenIPC

If you have a probation period when starting a new job and need to prove yourself before securing a full time contract, the first 100 days are especially important.

Starting a new job means getting used to a new culture, people and systems – a lot of change all at once. This blog, part 1 of 3, shares success tips.

Listen and learn
Initiate a comprehensive induction for yourself if one hasn’t been created already
Keep a diary of observations, questions and ideas to share at a future meeting with your employer, initiated by yourself
Be curious and ask lots of questions
Learn the language and buzz words of your new employer and use them
Find out the organisation’s values and live them
Find out when and how your key stakeholders like being communicated with
Learn times to avoid contacting people when they are under pressure
Establish the organisation’s key priorities and make them yours
Be discreet

Hope you found our blog starting a new job success tips part 1 useful. What tips would you add?

Read about how coaching helped Hemal create success when starting a new job.

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs193/1102862873131/archive/1112072645153.html

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