Proactively Managing Your Career - MinneWebCon

Proactively Managing Your Career

MinneWebCon 2015

What do you want to talk about?

While at #MinneWebCon you receive an email…

You are in line for a promotion…

We are bumping up your annual review…

We are letting people go today…

Funding for this project has been pulled…

Are you prepared???

Churn

• 17+ years as an IT Recruiter

• Author of Minnesota Headhunter blog

• Frequent local and national speaker on Recruiting/HR, Career and Social Media topics

• Founder of Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp

• Active in the Minneapolis & St Paul technology, marketing and social media community as a sponsor, volunteer & mentor

Oil change

Yearly physical

Fix a roof

Maintain your career

Networking… stop hanging out with who you know

I am in Introvert(I get this is hard)

Meet people today

Follow #MinneWebCon

Find cool kids

Introduce yourself to host(s) of an event

LinkedIn flirting

Build your portfolio

Brag book

Screen shots

Metrics

Increased “x”

Decreased “x”

Results, what was cool about the thing

Maintain and learn skills for your current employer

What are the next, next initiatives

Employer job descriptions

Go to Indeed or any job board

Next step in your career… the path

If tech, learn the business

If business, learn the tech

Is it management, find a mentor

Consulting, find someone with “scars”

If you were me...

Negotiating salary and rates

Make a case, you have a portfolio (right?)

Glassdoor, consulting firms industry sites

1%-3% average increase internal

5%-10% for a job switch

What’s the average increase in the group

$5 an hour

The grass is not always greener on the other side

It’s usually better to water where you are

You will sit in a chair of someone who went to greener grass

Pipeline: Consultants and Contractors

Future of workplace

Do something!!!(what are you waiting for)

Thank You!

paul@mnheadhunter.com