Some great advice from a UK blogger. I’ll be writing more about creating multiple resumes for different jobs, watch for that post in the next few days.
Here’s another opening I received through a college alumni group. It’s with a major Chicago-area employer and requires a good deal of experience.
Aon Hewitt Change Communications Manager – Chicago
The Change Communications Manager has the following responsibilities:
· Develop and implement a change management and communication strategy based on a situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups impacted by the change. Identify resistance and performance gaps, and work to develop and implement corrective actions. Create and enable reinforcement mechanisms, recognition strategies and performance objectives.
· Develop and execute communication/change plans and deliverables for leaders.
· Provide communications support for business integration activities.
· Manage multiple priorities, and carry a significant writing workload, creating a wide range of communication deliverables including face-to-face, video, voice and online.
· Create strong, ongoing internal customer relationships, becoming their trusted partner and advisor on communication issues. Be an active and visible coach to leaders.
· Consult with senior leaders and other internal clients to ensure the planning, development, and execution of their communications support business priorities and objectives, align to the company’s vision, mission, values, and goals, and are consistent with the function’s overall communication strategy.
· Work with project teams to integrate change management and communication activities into the overall project plan.
· Work with communication and training to formulate particular plans and activities to support project implementation.
· Track impact and success measures of efforts.
· Integrate with overall Communications team
Requirements:
· 7 or more years of relevant communication and change management experience.
· Experience as a communication expert in a major ERP implementation (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, etc), creating communications to support the entire project implementation lifecycle.
· Experience with a large-scale organizational change effort is required.
· Internal communications experience on M&A or change projects is a plus.
· Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle.
· Exceptional communication skills — both written and verbal.
· Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
· Strong analytic and decision-making abilities.
· Strong business acumen in an operations environment with experience communicating technical and complex concepts to a broad audience.
· MS Office proficiency required.
· PeopleSoft Finance preferred.
· SharePoint preferred.
· Bachelor’s degree in related discipline.
· Master’s degree a plus (Journalism, Communication, Organizational Development, English, Business, Marketing).
If you are interested in applying: Kristin Monkman at kristin.monkman@aonhewitt.com.
This opening came to me from a college alumni group I belong to. Such groups are a rich source of job leads.
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Today, we continue to run excerpts from my new book, Always Be Job Hunting to give you the flavor of the book and encourage you to check it out on Amazon.com
Chapter 5: Making it to the Big Time
Moving to Reuters from a trade magazine was like moving up to the big leagues from the minor leagues. Like most professions, journalism has several levels. In giant corporations, a similar move occurs when someone in charge of a formerly back-water division suddenly has to manage dramatic growth – and expectations – and gets transferred to corporate headquarters.
Me in 1983. Wish some of that hair was back now.
Back then, circa 1983, the classic journalism career path meant starting at a small newspaper working your way up to a big city daily, like the New York Times. I imagined the same for myself although writing for the New York Daily News was my dream. My working-class family read the News, not the more up-scale Times. When I had to buy and read the Sunday Times for my high school political science class, my family was more shocked than anything else. Continue reading
Sites that aggregate job postings, such as Indeed.com, make it easy for you to get daily updates on job openings in your field. Below is an example of one I get as I help my daughter search for a graphic designer’s job.
One caveat though, be as specific as possible. As you can see here, designer can mean many things in a job ad. Continue reading
Today, we continue to run excerpts from my new book, Always Be Job Hunting to give you the flavor of the book and encourage you to check it out on Amazon.com
Chapter 5: Changing Specialities
Switching specialties within a career can be difficult. I was too naïve when I switched to magazine from newspaper reporting and writing. I didn’t think there’d be much of a difference. After all, I’d written longer newspaper feature stories, how different could magazine writing be?
Very different, as I soon found out. I rushed through my first few assignments thinking I was doing fine. Until the day I ran into the publisher, in the men’s room, a wonderful man who would soon retire, who asked me how things were going. I said fine, but offered that I felt like I didn’t have enough work. He gently suggested it would be ok to take a little more time with my stories. Eventually, I came to realize what he meant. Magazine writing and reporting is a world away from the newspaper work. I had to learn a new specialty within my chosen profession.
Finding a job is like fighting a war, the more weapons you have, the better.
While I might interview three or four people for a local newspaper story I now for a national publication and to get a national perspective I might interview 15, 20 or more people for a feature story. This many interviews meant organizing mountains of notes. In my first newspaper job I often organized and wrote 500 word stories in my head as I called in from village board meetings.. Now I was writing 2,000 to 3,000-word stories.
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Today, we continue to run excerpts from my new book, Always Be Job Hunting , to give you the flavor of the book and encourage you to check it out on Amazon.com
Chapter 4: Learning on the Job
Looking back all these years later, I’m struck by the hubris with which I took my first management job. I really did think I knew it all and started out with that attitude, alienating people who’d been at their jobs there for decades by the time I’d arrived. I subsequently lived through working for new managers who did the same thing to me. I’ve wish they had listened to me by using the resources at hand rather than quickly dismissing the insights of people who’d been on the scene before they arrived.
I guess in some ways I’ve been paid back for the mistakes I made in that first management job. Life’s funny when it does that to us isn’t it?
The first page of chapter one of “Always Be Job Hunting.”
This blogger makes a good case for why you should “Always Be Job Hunting.”
JOB REALITY – THE ONCE A DAY CURE
The reality is – there are more people out of work than you think.
The U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics places unemployment at just below 8.0%, or 12,100,000 out of work. The unemployment rate had been above 8% for more than 40 months. While this dip may be encouraging, according to a recent CNBC report, the national average could actually be closer to 15% – almost double that of current estimates.
You may be one of those who are out of work – or maybe you are about to be. The truth is, more cuts are on the way and the reductions in force are being made for many reasons.
Here are a just a few of those reasons and what it could mean for you.
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Today, we continue to run excerpts from my new book, Always Be Job Hunting to give you the flavor of the book and encourage you to check it out on Amazon.com
Chapter 3: Finding a First Management Job
Once I had my first newspaper job, I did almost everything and anything that was asked of me to develop as broad a portfolio of skills and experience as I could.
The site of my first newspaper job is just a parking lot now, ther building is gone but the paper is still in busienss.
A first job is a time to learn about your chosen profession, I believe, and to develop a wide range of abilities so you can move up the ladder in your field. If you only learn to do one thing, you won’t be prepared for a new job or a new employer should your current one decide you’re expandable at some point. Continue reading
A funny thing happened as I was creating a page for excerpts from my book, Always Be Job Hunting. I realized I hadn’t posted as many excerpts as I had originally planned. So I’m correcting that in the next few days by posting excerpts from each chapter.
Chapter 2: Getting a First Job
Even after 36 years in the work world, I clearly remember what it was like to look for my first job. I remember like it was yesterday because, as a journalist, remembering things is what I do for a living. And because I have been filing away job-hunting lessons ever since. In a very real way, I have become a professional job hunter, which is why I’m writing this book, to share the fruits of my learning with you.
Back in 1975, I was job hunting in the midst of a horrible economy, just as so many, including my own children, are doing today.
The table of contents of “Always Be Job Hunting.”
Adjusting to no-salt, no-fat, no-sugar eating.
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