Are you a senior executive who is powerful and aggressive in your role at the company but avoiding being an Aggressive Job hunter?
While I could pretend to be shocked and dismayed, I am actually not.
The common excuses are that “Its Tacky To Be Aggressive” or “It doesn’t work!”.
I don’t believe you. When you negotiated your last business contract for your company, do you worry about looking cheap?
No, you didn’t. You got the best financial deal possible.
When you make marketing decisions, do you use weasel words like “If you are interested”, or “Please consider buying ….”
No, you didn’t. If you did, you would not be making a $100,000 or more a year. Who would pay you since you could not sell anything.
When you negotiate, you figure out your costs. Your figure out what you want. You figure out what the other side wants. Then you offer a solution that makes it easy for them to say yes. You walk away with a great deal.
That is how an aggressive powerful executive negotiates.
When working in marketing, you did the same thing. You figured out what the customer wants and where they are. You find a channel to that market that is as reliable and direct as possible.
No hoping, praying, just straight thinking. That is how the aggressive executive does it.
No ifs, ands, or buts.
Now you need to apply the same thinking to finding the perfect job. An aggressive job hunter does the same thing an an aggressive executive does.
They figure their costs, they find a market, they find a channel, and they go for it.
The financial calculations for job hunting are simple. Anything that will save you days, weeks, and even months in your job hunt should be used.To decide your budget, figure out how much each day of unemployment is costing you by dividing your yearly salary by 365.
An executive making $100,000 a year, its costing you $273.97 for every day you unemployed.
Anything that will shorten your job hunt by one day, will make you $273.97. Remember the 273.97.
The aggressive job hunter thinks about that amount each day and makes decisions based on it.
For the mid-level and junior executive, I strongly recommend the Guerrilla Job Hunting program, since its perfect to create a great resume, cover letter and plenty of strategies to find a good job quickly. Its great for action based people.
Senior executives used to making decisions want to have a team in place to help them execute. People who can do the repetitive and detailed work.
We know the kind of position you are suitable for is not found by a company trying to save a few dollars by posting the position on LinkedIn.
For your kind of position, they do not want to receive 100 resumes for a position. They want three resumes and know that these people have been vetted and they are going to pick one of them.
For people like you, Mature Executives earning good salaries I recommend you use Ivy Exec. Ivy Exec is created exclusively for highly qualified professionals. While anybody can apply, not everybody is accepted. Ivy Exec succeeds because it only represents the top people.
What do I mean by the top people? Let me tell you about your fellow members:
- 93% have a graduate degree
- 86% hold an MBA
- 31% hold more than one graduate degree.
These are not the people posting resumes on daily basis at Monster.com. These are people with a significant experience that make Fortune 500 companies successful.
You need to be accepted for membership before you can be matched to a job, Ivy Exec recruits candidates and conducts preliminary interviews. All companies and job postings are screened.
Obviously there is a level of quality and security that’s not found on job boards or LinkedIn, where anyone can post or search jobs or resumés.
You will not find entry-level positions and your fellow members come from the same top schools you do. Don’t bother applying unless you have at least five years of executive experience . You will find advice from career coaches and partnerships with several business schools.
Ivy Exec was founded by a team of Columbia alumni who realized the need to create an online job search tool targeted specifically for top-tier professionals with graduate degrees. Ivy Exec won the prestigious Columbia Business School Eugene M. Lang Fund Business Plan Competition in 2006 and was launched the the following year.
How about that for a team to help you succeed?
I recommend you apply to Ivy Exec for membership. When you apply, use the code TZ2010 to get your first month free.
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