Dream Company- Dream Job — 3
In previous two blogs I have talked about what are the characteristics of dream company and characteristics of dream job.
The dream job can be either inside your current organization if it is sufficiently big enough or it can be outside your organization.
The steps to approach the dream job in a dream company external to your current organization would be:
1. Prepare for dream position
2. Research all the companies/ organizations which you think will meet your criteria
3. Personal Branding
4. Networking
5. Job Interviews
6. Salary negotiations
But what if you are already part of a dream organization but just not doing the dream job? In this case you need to follow a slightly different approach.
1. Prepare for the dream position
2. List down the internal Units/Verticals/Horizontals
3. Personal Branding
4. Find out key influencer people
5. Build network
6. Internal interviews
There are sub steps for each of these steps. Below are these:
1. Prepare for dream position
a. Write goals for your career — Short, Middle and Long-term goals
b. Do self-audit
i. Your skills
ii. Your experience
iii. Market trends
c. Create master resume template which can be edited according to position
d. Update the linked in profile including the linked in URL
e. Link your projects and courses
2. Research
a. Identify and research dream companies or units
b. Identify and research the talent acquisition managers
c. Identify the available positions
3. Personal Branding
a. Buy a domain name
b. Set up blog / website
c. Professional email address
d. Write blogs
e. Start speaking at conferences
f. Create personal email signature
4. Networking
a. Connect with ex-colleagues, bosses and friends
b. Connect with targeted hiring managers
c. Connect with influencer leads, project managers
d. Connect with ex-employees
5. Job Interviews
a. Prepare for interview
i. Dress properly
ii. Find out interview processes
iii. Find out about interviewers
b. http://myinterviewsimulator.com/ — Practice mock interviews
c. Reflect on interview experience and make list of improvement points
d. Prepare for next interview
6. Salary negotiations
a. Prepare a document researching the salaries for the desired position
b. Find out about various perks including variable components etc.
The resource that can help in the job search:
1. Jobscan — keyword research
2. Wordclouds — Keywork research
3. Myinterviewsimulator — mock interviews
4. Wisestamp — personal email signature
5. GSUite — personal domain email address
6. EmailOctopus — automated email marketing
7. SalesQL — Get email of contacts
8. GetProspect — get email of contacts
9. Linkedin salaries — Research of salaries
10. PayScale — Research of salaries
11. Naukri Salaries — Research of salaries
For achieving your dream job with dream company the most important thing is having a clarity about your career. A career plan spanning entire life year by year should be created and keep updated. The career plan should contain:
1. Goals
a. Short — 6 months to 1 year
b. Medium — 1 year to 3 years
c. Long — 3 to 5 years
d. Super long — 5 to 10 years
e. Retirement — what to do during retirement years
2. Learning plan
a. Technology trends
b. Skill list for next levels of career progression
c. Skill set update plans — to acquire expertise it takes at least 2 to 3 years
d. On job learning opportunities
3. Networking
a. Keep in touch with previous connections
b. Make new connections
4. Alternate career paths
a. In case a change in career path is desired when and how to do it should be planned
5. Parallel career
a. Build a parallel career according to your passion and interests
It may happen that even after all this you might not get your desire right away. Because all these steps take time and hard work. But if you keep persisting the success will be yours.
