Welcome to the Ten Tips for Career Transitions Workshop. My name is Kimberly Brown
and I'm the associate director of employer outreach here at Princeton Career Services.
I am so excited that you're here to talk about one of my favorite topics, career transition.
Before we get into my top ten tips, we're going to start by talking a little bit
about the approach that we have here at Career Services.
We encourage you to ask questions, challenge assumptions and explore unconventional paths
during your time at Princeton and beyond.
This means that we do not expect for you to have one job when you leave Princeton and
keep that job all the way through to retirement
Now it's much more normal for people to bob and weave through various career paths
throughout their time after Princeton.
So let's start with number one: The first thing you need to do is reflect on
your strengths, interests, values and skills, and honestly what is important to you for your next position.
This includes the type of work, the mission of the organization and the geographic location you'd like to
work at or your hometown and what limitations you have surrounding your job search.
Number two: You must organize your search. This includes organizations, contacts,
deadlines, updates on your search and even follow-up reminders.
Now the reason why organizing a search is really important, especially when you're doing
a career transition, is because you want to track your progress.
When making a career transition, sometimes it's hard to know what is the next logical fit.
Should you be a director, an assistant director, an associate director, a coordinator, a VP, dean, a president.
There's so many different titles that are different across so many industries. But when you track your search,
But when you track your search, especially your applications,
you're able to see where you're getting the most traction when you're making career transition.
When you know where you're making the most traction, you can then double down your efforts
to make sure that you're making the most of every moment you're spending looking for a new position.
Number three: Research organizations of interest and determine if possible,
how they hire and the types of positions available.
On the next few slides I'm going to go through the recommended resources that we share on the
Career Services website that can be helpful to you while you're making your next career transition.
First up is Handshake. This is the internal jobs database where you can
access jobs and events for alumni and even make appointments on our platform.
Go to careerservices.princeton.edu/handshake in order to register for your own account.
Next is my favorite tool, the LinkedIn Alumni Tool. I know that we have TigerNet,
however LinkedIn has amazing capabilities to search and find alumni at any institution you've ever attended
or honestly any institution out there to see where the people live where they
work what they do and what they study. You can use all of these terms to narrow
down a search. So if this were an actual computer screen and this was the screen
shot up here. If I were able to scroll down, after clicking on Greater New York City area,
Google and research you would see people who meet that criteria.
The page for Princeton is linkedIn.com/school/157313.
But you'll see on the screen, there's a little button above the start year and end year,
we were able to change the university. There you can go and change to any university you'd like.
Your start and end year will also help you find people who were around the time that you graduated
or the class of people you need to locate to help you get your next job.
Next we have CareerShift. This is where you're really able to read in-depth information about contacts,
including alumni, jobs and just do traditional research about various companies.
Glassdoor. Again, you're able to read and find more information about contacts and
alumni, researching companies but you're also able to see reviews about the actual employer.
Now, remember to take some of their reviews with a grain of salt.
People who are disgruntled, generally like to complain a little bit more
and actively input information into these sites. So make sure that you weigh
the good, the bad and the ugly. However, I love that you can see salary information
reviews, even how people feel about the CEO at each company. Again, there's a link to this on
our alumni research tool page that you can find at careerservices.princeton.edu/careerresources.
Last but not least, we have Vault. This is the world's leading source of career information to really efficiently
research employers, industries and various career subjects.
You'll be able to find additional tools in the Career Resource Library and other resources
on our website as well that also have things pertaining to various industries.
Now let's move on to number four: Four is connecting with fellow alumni and others in your network.
When you're about to start a career transition, it's really important to let people know.
Learn more about different organizations or career fields that interests you.
You can find fellow alumni or others in your network using LinkedIn or TigerNet.
But putting the word out that you're looking and reconnecting and fostering relationships
is essential to making your next career transition.
Number five is engage. And you think that engage and connect would be similar, but they're a little different.
In order to make the most of the new connections, you have to engage.
Make sure that you're attending different events. Here you can attend your regional Princeton Alumni Club
events or other professional associations relating to your current industry or the industry
you hope to transition to. Especially if you're looking to make a move or work in your hometown,
make sure you look at organizations that are based on a certain geographic area.
We're not talking about networking in this presentation, but I always like to say
never a discredit someone who meet at a networking event.
You can meet someone who can be instrumental in moving your career literally at the grocery store.
But when you're at these events, just because the person doesn't work at your company,
make sure you ask more questions.
I say this because their spouse, their friends, their family, they may have contacts that you'll be able to
utilize, If you make the use of that connection as well.
Number six, make sure you tailor your materials. Take the time to revise your LinkedIn profile and your
documents to really tailor them to your interests and the industry that interests you as you're making the next transition.
Remember that LinkedIn also has amazing SEO or search engine optimization.
This means that when an employer goes online and Googles you, generally LinkedIn may come up as one of
the first things there. And this is really a good thing because when LinkedIn comes up they will be able to
see a professional present and learn a little bit more about you in your summary and looking at your job experiences.
Number seven, prepare for your networking events and interviews.
Especially if it's been a while since you've networked with the hopes of making a career transition.
Take a few moments to practice your elevator pitch, rehearse questions that you usually get
about your career and especially behavioral questions asyou're going into an interview.
Make sure that you know a little bit about the organization and this can be an
organization that you're interviewing for or a professional organization that you're attending.
Taking a few minutes to prepare can go a long way
Number eight, follow up after both informational and formal interviews.
Now I know some people say that thank you notes and follow-up notes are really a waste of time,
but I disagree. Following up after meeting someone is essential to staying on their mind.
If you meet someone at an event this weekend and you don't say anything to them,
but you reach out three months later when a job opening happens,
they not only remember who you are, at the very least they could have an email in their inbox
they can search and see if they spoke to you and if you talk about something
specific that you talked about at that event or whenever you met them something
you had in common, this can help them jog your memory. When you follow up it's
about deepening the relationships. So sending follow-up after informational
interviews or regular interviews, but also if you see something in the news
that's of interest. If you can be of value, it's essential to deepening the
relationships that will help you make your next career transition.
Number nine, commit yourself to the search.
One of the biggest questions we receive is how long will it take for me to make a career transition.
Statistics show that it takes the average person about six months
However, this timeline varies based upon your industry, the job market and your level of role.
It could be six months, it could be a year.
But you want to make sure that you commit yourself to the search.
Remember that it's not one specific thing that you're doing, it's all of these tips combined.
Dedicating time each day, each week, each month to making this career transition.
last but not least if you would like more guidance we invite you to speak
with our alumni career advisor we have phone Skype or in-person appointments
available and you're able to sign up these sign up for these appointments via
handshake again thank you so much for having me and listening to this
presentation and we wish you the best of luck in making your next career
transition
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