Work Cycle : Learn the Graph of Hiring

New Year is over, Chinese New Year is next. This also means, bonus time! Many employees would already be looking out for a new job, new career, a new change. From this month till end of April, hiring activities would be at its peak level. 

Employees that would be looking out could differ from many industry, position or even departments. Today will be some tips to share with employees on how to ensure smooth transition of their job hunting. 

1. Update your resume.

Updating your resume from time to time brings no harm. It does not necessarily mean that you are done with your current employment. In fact, it makes the hustle lesser when you want to have a shift in your career. Resume should be compact and on point with important details of your working experience. Making it simple yet detailed is the key. Ensure that all job tittle, duration of employment, responsibilities attached and achievement gained is all listed clearly. Do not forget to state your reason of leaving all your previous organisation to make HR’s screening & selecting much easier! 

2. Application of jobs.

Apply for job that is ONLY RELEVANT to your previous experience. Mind you, we have seen candidates from teaching background applying for a Head of Human Resource department. By applying to other random jobs, you are only making those a capable talent to be hidden by increasing the number of application. The probability of a suitable candidate to be called for interview thus decreases. Now imagine you applied for a position that really suits you and exact requirements were needed for the organisations. But because of many other applicants that applied blindly, the number of application increases from probably 30 application to 210 applications! Do you think we have all the time to read every 210 resumes which each probably may have 7-8 pages in average. You don’t get to be seen among the 210 applicants. Frustrating isn’t it?

3. Interviews. 

While attending for interviews, be all prepared. I mean it. Imagine being a hiring manager and having interviewed candidates who barely know the job responsibilities. It is not the hiring manager’s responsibility to explain what are the expected job responsibilities are but instead the candidates should be knowing it first. If you cannot make it on time for the interview, inform. Inform the HR department, hiring manager or even recruiter that you may be late by 5-10 minutes. If you last minute do not feel good about the role you’re about to be interviews, DO NOT GO MISSING in the Bermuda Triangle. We don’t eat humans. We are not cannibals at least! Have the courage to call the recruiter or even an email would do. We do not want to waste anyone’s time over here. 

4. Follow-ups.

Following up after attending your interviews is very important. Leave a thank you note to the hiring manager/HR department/recruiter. No bouquets of flower is needed, no chocolates delivery is needed. Just a thank you email for handling or organising the interview. Even if it’s rejecting an offer proposal, do not keep HR chasing you for a signed copy of it. If you feel is not worth the move from your current job, justify it. I’m very sure if the justification made sense and if your expertise is in need to the new organisation, they will acknowledge it. Counter offers are just another part of the story that I always hate to face. Another blog on this surely. 

5. Resignation.

Do not leave the current organisation in a bad way. Always remember that everyone we work with is part of the networking that you’re building. While working and delivering our task, we create impression. This same impression is something we can change into building a good range of connection in your work network. You’ll be shocked how people will remember you from your work for years! Leave in good terms and keep in touch if necessary. 

Looking for a new job and starting the cycle all over again may just be tiring and which somehow would make your confidence level decline. Never give up even if you’ve gone for 10-15 interviews. Every interview you attending should have a learning point. The curve always incline after a bad downfall. As Napoleon Hill says strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.