Business Trends Impacting Hiring Decisions in 2022

What’s a New Year without a little crystal ball gazing?  The Future of Work: The Five Biggest Workplace Trends in 2022 in Forbes by author Bernard Marr provides an insightful look into possible scenarios that may play out in the coming year.  For the job-seeker or career-changer, the article offers important considerations and business trends that could impact hiring decisions in 2022.

1.       Hybrid Working: The pandemic will continue to impact how and where we work with three models: centralized (i.e., for healthcare, retail, teaching), decentralized (i.e., everyone working from home) and hybrid (i.e., combined office and home work).  The difference in 2022 is that the worker will have a choice in which model to follow.  This is clearly a win for workers and managers too.  In a report by Loom, 90 per cent of workers and managers are happier with the increased freedom offered by work at home models.

2.        AI – Augmented Workforce: Artificial Intelligence (AI) will continue to replace repetitive work giving workers more time for value-added skills like creativity and innovation.  This signals the importance that employers place on workers who can demonstrate high-level strategic and lateral thinking. 

3.       Staffing for Resilience: Hiring for efficiency has been replaced with hiring for resiliency.  What was considered redundancy or overlapping skills is now considered sensible and flexible precautions.  Organizations need to be nimble and quick to adapt, and job-seekers who can demonstrate these behaviours will be in high demand.

4.       Less Focus on Roles, More on Skills: Focusing on roles related to the hierarchical structure of the organization has been replaced with focusing on skills that offer the organization a competitive advantage.  Regardless of your title, focus on how your skills solved a key business challenge to catch the attention of a prospective employer.  For example, you don’t need to be in a leadership position to demonstrate leadership skills. Focusing on skills also enables the worker to capitalize on new career opportunities that go beyond the role.

5.       Employee Monitoring and Analytics: Monitoring employee activities is not a useful tool for enforcing ideal behaviour; however, it is helpful to the organization for gaining broad insights into workforce behaviour and to provide supports where needed.

This interesting article by Bernard Marr reveals what employers may be thinking about in 2022 and how it could influence hiring decisions.  Consider your work experience and be sure to include in your resume examples of where you’ve demonstrated creativity, adaptability and skills that go beyond your title.  Plus, keep these shiny nuggets of information handy for your next interview.

Stay tuned for more reviews of relevant, timely and actionable information on how to make the job search easier.  For information on how Career Aviators can make your job search easier, please contact me at donnalynn.clarke@careeraviators.com

#resiliency #careeradvice #resume

Want to Be A Career Management Consultant?

Career Aviators Career Management Consultancy Opportunity

Would you like to learn how to help clients find careers in which they excel, value highly and love to do? Are you ready to open and operate your own career management firm with minimal risk?

Would you like to become part of a mutually supportive network that helps clients to flourish in their careers and lives?.

Career Aviators is selecting individuals across Canada for training and co-consultation to become Career Aviators Career Management Consultants.

This opportunity will give you more than 100 hours of training, co-consultation and the ongoing weekly team support you need to enable you to grow your own career management firm or add career coaching/management to your services (if you are already a coach or consultant).

About Career Aviators

Career Aviators is Canada's only Career Management firm that operates as a social purpose business. The profits from our work support programs help vulnerable youth flourish in the face of highly stressful life situations.

Career Aviators helps professionals, managers, and executives find positions in which they will excel, value highly, and love to do. We are proud of our 93% success rate. We are

For our corporate clients, we offer a cost-effective approach to our outplacement support that safeguards the company brand and strengthens productivity.

We see clients on a weekly basis from the initiation of service until they are employed in a job that fits.

How Does This Idea Work?

Benefits

Comprehensive training in the Career Aviators methodology (100 hours) and ongoing support (Total value: more than $30,000.)

• Supervised practice: Co-consultation with your clients until we mutually agree that you are ready for solo practice

Certification as a Career Aviators Career Management Consultant

Be Part Of A World Class Team

• Ongoing weekly professional development and sharing of triumphs and challenges

Minimal Start-Up Costs

• Use of The Career Aviators brand to grow your business

• Full description of your business on our website

• Unlimited access to Career Aviators materials, forms etc

Collaborative Business Planning And Learning As We Grow And Adapt To Change

Make a Good Living

o   Projected income: In year 1 you could anticipate $20,000.00 and with hard work and excellent marketing increasing to $100,000.00 by year 5

Your Responsibilities

Before You Start Your Training:

• Research any licensing issues in your community or province and get your your business license

• Find 3 Beta clients

• Set up a sole proprietorship for a career management consultancy

Successfully complete the full training (100 hours of training and supervised practice)*

Fully participate in weekly professional development

Prepare your Career Aviators page in French and English with our assistance

Find more clients during training and going forward

Keep 75% of your earnings. 25% is directed to Career Aviators (5% is directed to administration and marketing to grow business for the team across the country).

Agree to maintain the integrity of the Career Aviators methodology and brand for 5 years

Bring another business or coaching strength to the benefit of our Canada-wide team

Qualifications

Required

• ·        If you are In Quebec, you must be bilingual (with excellent communication skills in French (written and oral)

• ·         Empowerment oriented with a demonstrated ability to help others flourish

• ·         Curious, life-long learner with a keen interest in professional development

• ·         Experienced in counselling, coaching or related work

• ·         Solution focused, sound judgement with a good sense of humour and flexible in attitude

• ·         Committed to  helping clients from initial contact until they have successfully transition

• ·         Bachelors degree in a relevant program and proven success in a related line of work or equivalent

• ·         Proven experience in networking with a strong network of helpful contacts

• ·         High degree of resilience and determination to make the business successful

Assets

• ·         Proven experience in sales, marketing and communications is highly desirable

• ·         Graduate studies in management, counselling or other related programs

• ·         Professional qualification in social work, psychology  coaching  or career development

• ·         Previous success in helping others with resumes, job search and career transitions

If you are interested in discussing this exciting opportunity, please contact:

Wayne Greenway,

Chief Executive Officer, Career Aviators

LinkedIn: ca.linkedin.com/in/wgreenway

E: wayne.greenway@careeraviators.com

P: 226 501 5667

Thursday Triumphs

Kevin has owned his own travel agency for 10 years, COVID took its toll on the business but he managed to get through the 18 month pandemic without losing money. Sadly, there was no profit.

Even though he loves travel and enjoys working with his clients, he closed the business exhausted from working a minimum of 14 hours a day and not really making any real financial headway.

Fortunately his wife has a good job which has supported his family with a modest but happy lifestyle.

He has his destination in mind and we did a lot of work rebooting
his master resume.

His current functional resume has not garnered any interviews.

As described in a recent helpful article by Robert Half, a functional resume “leads with a list of skills and specific experience, followed by education and work history sections”

https://lnkd.in/e6FCYeC

As the article suggests, advocates of a functional resume say that it's a wise format for people with gaps in their work history or operating their own business like Kevin.

Kevin and I worked through our Resume Analyzer and we talked about his self evaluation compared to my evaluation. By the end of the conversation, he realized that he has an enormous number of successes in establishing his own business that fit with his new destination.

He also realized that he has less than 40 seconds to show the pattern of successes he has had in his career that tie to qualifications in the job description. His functional resume was not doing this.

We shifted his resume into a powerful chronological format which, as the article suggests, “is generally preferred by most hiring managers.”

Kevin recently landed a new job supervising a small team in an experiential travel business,.

#resume #careertransition, #careeradvice

Tuesday Take Off

Before you think about the robots, one of the most important steps in developing an effective resume is to create a Master Resume that always stays in the cloud or on your computer.

In the master resume, list every significant accomplishment you achieved ( that you can think of) in the right format, under each job. You could have as many bullets as you want under each job in the Master.

When you customize your resume for a job application, you will be mostly deleting bullets that do not match with the qualifications and the principle duties in the job description and editing the remaining bullets to match the language of the qualifications.

Having a master resume cuts the time it takes you to customize by about 50%.

Customizing is tedious but the more you do it, the less tedious it becomes, if you are applying to similar roles.

One tip to get both the robots and the humans to put you in the “Yes'' list for interviews is to specifically match your successes, under each job to each of the qualifications and the most important principle duties.

And...be sure to use their wording (key words) to explain each of your successes. This way you won’t be stuffing the resume with keywords inappropriately and yet your fit will be noticed quickly by a human and the ATS.

There are 14 other criteria in the Career Aviators Resume Analyzer that you can use to determine how you need to make changes to your resume to get in the “yes” list for interviews.

I would be pleased to review your resume with you in a free consultation and/or you could participate in the resume reboot workshop or the Career Landing Programme

Career Zoom In Participants Brainstorm Over 40 Ways To Make Job Search More Productive

Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash

Career “Zoom In” is a Canadian hub for free weekly job search advice,support and empowerment for individuals looking to find new work during this pandemic.  

It is hosted by the Guelph and Tri-cities Career Collective and led by a team of 5 career professionals (see links below), who are volunteering their time to lead the initiative. 

On Thursday June 24, 2021 at noon and 7pm our Career Zoom In feature presentation was “Boosting Productivity in Your Job Search”

Productivity is the balance between resources invested and the volume of output. Loosely speaking, in job search, the goal is to minimize resources used while maximizing output - keeping in mind that time is a resource one can never get back.  

Productivity is important because job search is front-end loaded. This is mainly because networking takes such a long time to execute. For each day you delay in your job search (prior to the interview stage) Wayne Greenway, CEO of Career Aviators estimates that it adds roughly 3 days to the length of  your job search. If you delay 1 month on the front end it might delay your job search by as much as 3 months. 

Over the two sessions Career Zoom In participants came up with over 4o great suggestions for how to be more productive for each stage of job search. 

Overall Productivity Boosters

1. Maintain positivity: Having the right mindset and focus is very important in the success of your job search because if you are “present''. you are far more likely to be more productive. Employers also want to hire applicants who are present, positive and focused, Here are some ways to shift into this way of being

   • Learn to meditate -- even 3 minutes twice a day will help a lot 

   • Plan your activities that bring joy into your life in your calendar first and then build in your job search 

   • Have 5 or 10 min every day just for yourself to do whatever you want to be doing.

2. Treat your job search like a job. Set up a daily routine and dress for work. 

3. If you want to take time off your scheduled hours, then think about how your boss would react (when you were last working) to a request for time off for that kind of purpose, then ask yourself if you really should take the time off or stick to the job search?

4. Have a daily schedule and work it!

5. Learn about yourself, learn about others, learn about work trends, and help someone else -- all on an ongoing basis

6. Set realistic goals for each day and your week 

7. Track your progress in a spreadsheet & sync it with your calendar (colour coding is helpful too) 

8. Leverage free tools 

9. Make time for something physical every day, and do some stretching if you're at your desk a lot 

10. Find an accountability partner

11. Follow up with your network in a scheduled way; 

12. Use LinkedIn Learning (or something similar) to work on a skill you're interested in

13. Keep checking in on tracking sheets often. Find dedicated time and place to focus on tasks. Identify time wasting through the day.  Make sure to take breaks to rest so you are  more productive.

14. Manage your time effectively and be persistent 

15. Be intentional every day: The measure of your day isn't whether you “got a job” but whether you spent the day intentionally the way you wanted to do.-- If you're always focusing on how well you are doing at “finding a job”, as your measure of success, it can be really discouraging.

Self Exploration Productivity Boosters: 

1. Go after 2 roles maximum.Focus on a role that combines your top strengths @ youf deepest values @ what you are most curious about. By defining what you want your informational or field research interviews will be more productive -- your contacts will know how they can best help you,

2. Create a mission/ career statement and review and refocus it as you move forward with the search  

3. Look at ideal places “you’d do your job in” and similar opportunities

4. Make list of people to reach out to as you go

Resume Reboot: 

1. Do a master resume: It can take you 3 or 4 hours to do a customized resume without having a master resume but if you have one you can do it in 90 min 

2. Demonstrate in each role how you: planned, organized, implemented and executed + include your metrics. 

3. Have one master resume for full-time jobs and another for part time jobs.

4. Then it’s just a matter of changing a few pieces of info to customize a resume based on a role.

Strategy & Networking: 

1. Use search features in Indeed, LinkedIn etc effectively to filter most relevant jobs

2. Network, network, network, network, network!

3. Talk to someone everyday  -- aim to talk to 5 highly targeted people a week as part of your networking

4. Set daily networking goals -- take every opportunity to sell yourself; speak with people even if you don’t immediately see value in it

5. Create a tracking sheet (set up a system that works for you) Be as organized as possible to save time

6. If your networking conversation has gone well ask “ Do you know of someone who you think would be good for me to speak with?“  The suggested people that your first contacts suggest are actually your best contacts for job search

7. Have an Excel Spreadsheet with the following columns:

   1. Company Name

   2. Name of person you want to contact

   3. Their LinkedIn or email

   4. Summary of conversation

8. Next steps after the last conversation with the person - Could be sending them your website and resume or a follow up email next Monday, etc. A thank you note, etc. Very important column because it contains your list of tasks right there.

9. Have your tracking sheet include

   1. Times you can regularly book meetings

   2. Notes from each interview in tracking

   3. Things you can send that highlight something about you

10. If you are searching for career change, try to increase your visibility to people outside your targeted industry / roles - connect with people outside your target on LinkedIn, go to networking or industry events outside your industry (once things are back to normal, and within reason)

Application Customization:  

1. Rewrite successes under each job to match as many of the qualifications and principle duties  as possible

2. Have addons of successes to your master resume with more examples

3. Split time - chunking time - to focus on each vertical - job you are applying for - to benefit from division of labour on the job apps by type. 

4. When applying, customize each application to the job post using their language

5. Do a reverse audit of self: If someone looks me up, what do they see? 

6. Auditing yourself online: How you appear to other people online. From this: what can I do to look better online.

Interview Management: 

1. If you have targeted the job carefully then formulate a list of questions and a STAR success story for each question

2. Prepare questions against qualifications and predicted common scenarios and challenging behaviours you think you might encounter in the job

3. Prepare a 10 minute project to talk through [Communications]

Negotiation:  

1. Decide on your target salary, benefits, vacation etc. when you are applying to a targeted job. If the salary range is well below your budget save the time in customizing and interviewing for the job 

2. Do Your Research   Learn “Going” salary range & your personal budget

3. As part of your networking, ask others in similar roles: “if I was to land a similar position , what do you think I could expect in terms of salary range”?

4. Create Financial Decision Criteria 

5. Don’t make any negotiations until they make an offer ( unless it is required) otherwise if the job is way bigger in scope than you gathered from the job description you may have to take a lot of time getting your salary increased 

The groups came up with great advice. Join us for these great learning experiences. If you want to learn more about learn more on our LinkedIn page Career Zoom In

Career Zoom Ins are hosted By The Guelph & Tri-Cities Career Collective

Jan Atkinson, Jan Atkinson Coaching & Consulting, janatkinsoncoaching.com   

Rachel Despres, Career Coach For Rebels, racheldespres.com              

Nicola Edwards, Career Mojo, careermojo.ca

Wayne Greenway, Career Aviators, careeraviators.com         

Laura Hartnell, Laura Hartnell Career Transition Services, laurahartnell.ca 

Nel Slater, Alder Tree Coaching, aldertreecoaching.com

Thinking about advancing your career?

Thinking about advancing your career?

The advice in shelves of self help books may be terrible advice suggest @Adam Grant in The @New York Times

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/opinion/sunday/unless-youre-oprah-be-yourself-is-terrible-advice.amp.html

Grant shows evidence that a  trait called self-monitoring is what brings success. 

High self-monitors constantly scan their environment for social cues and adjust accordingly. They adjust their communication according to the situation,  

As part of his convincing case for not striving for authenticity he cites  “a comprehensive analysis of 136 studies of more than 23,000 employees revealed that high self-monitors received significantly higher evaluations and were more likely to be promoted into leadership positions.

He suggests that paying attention to “how we present ourselves to others, and then strive to be the people we claim to be”

Making Better Use Of Your Time In Your Job Search

Photo by Anastase Maragos on Unsplash

Interested in making better use of your time in your Job Search

John Lees has a very helpful article in The Guardian
https://lnkd.in/eBh4XCg

Job search time can disappear faster than you know it.

Job Search is also front end loaded. Current job searches involve extensive networking.

It is often the most difficult and time consuming part of the process.

The result is that everyday you delay at the beginning of the search, means about 3 days longer at the end of your search before you land a job.

John Lees presents 10 steps to making your job search more productive that focus mostly on the research and preparation of your search.

Some of his best suggestions involve:

Doing a careful self exploration, including a careful review of your successes

Deciding on 3 main messages you want to get across about your experience, ability and personality.

Both of these tactic help you to be more focused and helps those you talk with to be more effective in helping you.

Testing out your CV with industry and HR professionals and practicing your interviews are also two great ways to not only get offers but also speed up the process to get you there.

Applying to online job boards without networking is almost futile -- CBC Radio Interview

Applying to online job boards without networking is almost futile. This is just one of 5 tips I was able to share when I was interviewed yesterday by Desmond Brown of CBC Kitchener-Waterloo News 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-region-job-losses-2020-1.5986016