Re: Knowledge Manager Position—Job Search in the time of COVID #discussion-starter #jobs #COVID-19 #remote-work
|
Matt Moore
Abbe, 1. A willingness to invite feedback on your CV in a public forum requires a fair degree of courage - so good on you. 2. Dennis’s comments are spot on - with one exception - I don’t think there’s much value in starting a blog anymore (2006 would have been a different story). 3. With my CV and the advice I got from professional recruiters aligned, some of it was contradictory. My key takeaway was less content but focused on what the organization said they were asking for and using terms the hiring manager would care about (e.g. $ value delivered, $ budget). 4. Many economies are depressed right now which makes finding a job hard. Not impossible but hard. 5. You can look at 5 different KM job ads with the same title and see 5 completely different activities being undertaken - from what is effectively programming to what is effectively human change management. There are also jobs out there that are effectively KM roles but do not mention KM at all. 6. I have had to do this 3 times in the last 2 years. It is brutal. And luck plays its part. You may go for 4 months without getting anything and then get 2 job offers at once. 7. The biggest thing for me during the job hunting process was maintaining a sense of agency. Putting yourself out there and getting continuously rejected is not fun. So it’s important to be doing things that remind you that you do have something going on, even when the world may not agree. That may be family or community work. I tried to have 4 conversations a week with interesting people. These were not about begging for a job (I would start the conversation off by categorically saying I would not ask them for a job and you could see the person relax). But about learning something and offering something. “Is there something I can do for you?” Again this is just my experience and it may vary for others. Good luck, Matt Moore +61 423 784 504
On Feb 25, 2021, at 4:11 AM, Abbe Wiesenthal <abbewiesenthal@...> wrote:
|
|
|