Job Hunting While Employed Dos and Donts

Job Hunting While Employed Dos and DontsSophie Deering over at TheUndercoverRecruiter knows about the delicate dance of looking for another job while youre still employed by your last one. You have to keep your search below the radar, which flies in the face of the typical advice to advertise your job-hunting status everywhere for networking purposes googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display(div-gpt-ad-1467144145037-0) ) DOUpdate your LinkedIn profile. Check your privacy settings first to make sure youre not broadcasting each update to your entire network. An up-to-date profile is one of the first things a recruiters going to look for.Schedule interviews during non-work hours. There are only so many doctors appointments or work from home days you can fit in without attracting suspicion. When scheduling your interview, request beginning or end of day slotsyour prospective employer should understand, and even appreciate your discretion.Network Get in spur with past colleagues an d supervisors to let them know youre searching for something new the last office job I held I got after reaching out to former coworkers who had somehow all relocated to the same company. We got two more years of working together, and are all still in touch as freelancers today.Give appropriate notice in writing. Once youve passed the interview phase and gotten that job offer, give necessary notice. Be a team player as they find and train your replacement.Leave in a professional manner. Unless your industry is so vast you may never need to binnensee these people again, you should be professional and dignified until the very last minute. You may need your former colleagues as references or want to approach your old babo for a future collaboration. Storming out might feel great in the moment, but being gracious and poised will take you further.DONTTalk to colleagues about your job hunt. If you have one or two close colleagues who you know are well-connected, it may be a good idea to l et them know youre looking so you have a reliable reference at your current gig, but you definitely dont want your business becoming water-cooler conversation. Its counterproductive for morale and productivity.Dont dress differently than normal. If your current workplace is pretty casual, you dont want to suddenly show up in a suit or more formal outfittake a change of clothes with you and change somewhere en route to avoid suspicion.Dont job search while youre at work. This should be a no brainer, but unless you want your job search financed by your severance pay, keep your Monster.com searches confined to your evenings, lunch hour, and weekends.Dont post your resume on job boards. The odds of someone from your organization seeing your info there are higher apply for jobs that have submission processes, not the ones that require a job-searching profile.Dont mention the job search on social media. I dont think this one is fair, but as an employee youre always representing your emplo yer in some capacityif youre kvetching where anyone can see it or openly ready to move on, your employer may decide to take care of the conflict of interest in a way you wont like.The Dos and Donts of Finding a Job When You Are Already in a JobRead More at theundercoverrecruiter.com