The job search is problematic, with many nuances, usually aimed at improving the quality of life of the applicant. The first thing you should do when you are looking for a job, decide whether you have already taken to improve the quality of life in the current workplace, as the change does not necessarily improve your standard of living.Next, you should decide how and in what terms will you look for a job; whether to leave, or want to continue to work; notify whether manual or will search for a hidden manner. Always remember that the secret is revealed, sometimes sooner than you would like. Each of your decisions have consequences: it is possible that your issues are resolved without changing jobs, think again. You can get equally: and promotion with your current employer, and early dismissal; the offer for the position of a dream, or black mark on the labour market. All this is entirely within the area of your responsibility when making decisions about changing jobs, as well as the way of finding a new one.
If you have decided to look for a job a secret from the employer, no matter, due to some reasons, we should first of all find out how and in what ways your company information on the market of job seekers and employees the employees: in some organizations, regular monitoring is the responsibility of the security service, or Department staff. Most often, the searching for company name, or the names of employees, their mobile phones, home and work email. Tracked information as to job sites and social networks, forums on professional topics and interests. Therefore, it is understood that negative statements about the current work, hints openness to suggestions, requests a new place, a caricature of the head on the Bulletin Board account in the social network will be, probably, the reason for debriefing, or — depending on the policy of employer reason for leaving. The situation is similar with summary: even if you hide the name of the last employer, already sufficiently date CV to understand your intentions. It should also be remembered «corporate unity» — there are cases when colleagues «friendly» gave information about the updated summary of the manual.
to recap: the search process should be managed and confidential at all 360 degrees, especially for niche professionals, with a small amount of suggestions vacant seats on the market, or based on the willingness of the applicant to significantly raise wages, and therefore, with a long search.
The options available depend on your not afraid of the word, position in life.
Scenario 1: active independent search job openings directly to interested companies.
you yourself, at your own risk, choose employers, monitor open positions, receive information, including insider channels, and send the summary to the person who is directly involved in the hiring process, and better, makes a decision to hire. Success in this case depends on your competence and abilities to extracting information. Risks: you should really know your market in order to understand the choice of employers, which is not always what happens, if it’s not a niche type of business; in addition, you will have to spend time monitoring. Partly you will save a «subscription» for positions of interest to companies. Deadline: unspecified, and can immediately get lucky, and possibly a long wait.
Scenario 2: placement resume on job portals with close access to the employees of their company, subscribe to the desired position. It insures you against a direct request, but does not exclude test «friendship» HR-om each other (and too often do), or just a random hit on your resume, especially if you are looking for a replacement without notice to you. Success is possible at short distances: you immediately came the representatives of the company or the recruiter, then the summary should be closed. The risks of being caught in this case the maximum.
Scenario 3: finding work through a proven recruiting Agency. the Majority of recruiters interested in that information is not leaked to the outside, so taking effective measures, up to the contractual, legal and procedural. So, if you clearly and distinctly discuss their interests, it is most likely that you are looking for a job without stress. In addition, the Agency owns the General marketing information, knows all the leading players usually cooperates with the most attractive customers, and you can rely on their expertise. Success depends on the choice of the Agency (by the way, not necessarily it’s only on the accuracy of formulating its position on your compliance with business agreements and ethics. Risks: excludes companies with whom there is no Agency agreement (be sure to ask about their interested agencies do not hide it).
Time: depend on your ambitions and the market situation, from 3 weeks to 4 months, there are severe cases.
it is Worth remembering that the Agency takes the money from you, his client is the employer, respectively, primarily to fulfill the request of the employer. With you, the Agency cooperates, and is interested to promote your business in the right company, no less than you are to find a job. The Agency is your business partner in the labor market.
Scenario 4: job search for the familiar. This is the longest periods, but generally involves less risk of premature and contrary to his wish to inform current management. Of course, this is true, provided that you are sure that your friends do not fall under the act 5 handshakes, or at least loyal first and foremost to you. Typically, this channel can be found more or less acceptable place, in rare cases, can significantly improve the working position, as social lifts now slowed, compared at least with the situation 10 years ago. It should be noted that in Soviet and post-Soviet periods, the channel search was basic and guaranteed improved quality of life. Now a number of tools for the applicant’s much wider, and it makes sense to combine. In some cases, for example, state-owned and state-financed institutions, internal recommendation is still the main channel of employment. Therefore, if the civil service is your goal, look for those most notorious 5 handshakes, leading to the entry point.
Technical recommendations for covert search are and remain the standard for security in the Internet, don’t save passwords on your computer, delete the history of search queries, cache, cookies, magazines Explorer on the desktop computer. If possible, generally eliminate the job search of working time and working with resources, such as mobile phones, work email account, computer (saved all the logs and session, sometimes not only on the production machine, but the server logs). Do not discuss «hot» topic in the Smoking room, under the Windows of the office, next to talking on the phone with colleagues, even if they are your intimate friends and the main accomplices in the case. Have agreements with recomendadas with previous jobs: usually interested in: subordinate, colleague, Manager.
Always and everywhere follow the requirements of business etiquette and arrangements. Corny, but discipline is not only you, but your counterpart, makes us remember that in our time the one who owns the information, owns the world.
Success!
Anna Bauer
Recruitment company AVICONN
CEO