Evaluating Job Opportunities is Important
By Cord Harper, CEO of Endeavor Agency
Evaluating job opportunities is important in your job hunt. It’s a skill that takes knowledge and discipline to learn.
“What are the principle challenges you are facing in your job search?” It’s a question we ask prospective clients as part of our introductory meeting.
"Everyone’s situation is different. I keep taking jobs with companies that turn out to have serious issues,” said a recent client. “Then, I either get downsized or need to leave because they are unstable or just a bad environment to work in. I want to find a good job in a good company.”
This female executive had five jobs in the last four years. She initially chalked it up to bad luck. We shared with her it was not luck. It was directly related to her process of evaluating job opportunities.
At first, this caught her off guard. But then she realized it was how she went about looking for jobs. She wasn’t seeing the openings at the good companies. It was about her inability to get her foot in the door at good companies. That required advanced networking skills and a lot of work. It was about her inability to land the good jobs in good companies. The competition, quite frankly, had better interview skills.
Lastly, it was related to her due diligence process. She wasn’t doing much to peel back the onion to assess if it was the right fit or not.
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About Endeavor Agency
Endeavor Agency is the nation’s leading company helping individual executives, VPs, senior managers, professionals, and physicians find the jobs they truly want. Our additional resources, expertise, and career change specialists help our clients uncover more and better job opportunities than what they could access on their own.
Endeavor Agency helps rebrand clients to effectively communicate their value throughout the interview process and increase their odds dramatically of winning offers. Additionally, Endeavor Agency helps clients achieve better results in negotiating the terms of their employment agreements.
Endeavor Agency also provides executive coaching, outplacement services, and business consulting services. Endeavor can also help guide executives focused on the private equity and venture capital market segments.
