The past 12 past months Minnesota has seen a number of significant hiring, reorganization, layoff and acquisition announcements. If your CEO, Executive Director, VP or Manager came to your desk or sent an email right now and said: We want to promote you, let’s meet tomorrow at 9 am and talk about it. Your annual review is this month, fill out this form and have it back to me by the end of the week. Because of the upcoming acquisition your role is likely to change. Let’s talk about what you want to do next. The project we are working… the funding has been pulled. We only you need you for two more weeks. I’m sorry but as part of our “reorganization” we are letting you go. … would you be ready? Are you maintaining your career?

1. Proactively Managing Your
Career
MinneWebCon 2015

2. What do you want to talk about?

3. While at #MinneWebCon you
receive an email…

4. You are in line for a promotion…
We are bumping up your annual review…
We are letting people go today…
Funding for this project has been pulled…

5. Are you prepared???

6. Churn

7. • 17+ years as an IT Recruiter
• Author of Minnesota Headhunter blog
• Frequent local and national speaker on Recruiting/HR, Career
and Social Media topics
• Founder of Midwest Recruiting Bootcamp
• Active in the Minneapolis & St Paul technology, marketing and
social media community as a sponsor, volunteer & mentor

8. Oil change
Yearly physical
Fix a roof

9. Maintain your career

10. Networking… stop hanging out
with who you know

11. I am in Introvert
(I get this is hard)

12. Meet people today
Follow #MinneWebCon
Find cool kids
Introduce yourself to host(s) of an event
LinkedIn flirting

13. Build your portfolio

14. Brag book
Screen shots
Metrics
Increased “x”
Decreased “x”
Results, what was cool about the thing

15. Maintain and learn skills for your
current employer

16. What are the next, next initiatives
Employer job descriptions
Go to Indeed or any job board

17. Next step in your career… the path

18. If tech, learn the business
If business, learn the tech
Is it management, find a mentor
Consulting, find someone with “scars”
If you were me...

19. Negotiating salary and rates

20. Make a case, you have a portfolio (right?)
Glassdoor, consulting firms industry sites
1%-3% average increase internal
5%-10% for a job switch
What’s the average increase in the group
$5 an hour

21. The grass is not always greener on
the other side

22. It’s usually better to water where you are
You will sit in a chair of someone who went to greener grass

23. Pipeline: Consultants and
Contractors

24. Future of workplace

25. Do something!!!
(what are you waiting for)

26. Thank You!
paul@mnheadhunter.com