Are you maximizing your job search potential by staying employed?
#jobsearch #employment #careeropportunities
Benefits of Job Searching While Employed:
- Gives you more leverage during salary negotiations
- Allows you to be more selective in job offers
- Opens up opportunities for better benefits and perks
Stay Employed, Stay Desirable:
When you are currently working, you are seen as a desirable candidate by employers, giving you the upper hand in securing a better job offer. By avoiding desperation in your job search, you can negotiate for higher pay, more PTO, and other valuable benefits. And if your search doesn’t pan out, you are still in a stable position compared to being unemployed.
Remember: it’s all about leveraging your current position to secure a better future!
I’m in this position. How do you find time to apply and craft good letters and applications when I’m exhausted from work and then family responsibilities.
Its good to keep your resume and LinkedIn up to date along the way as well, it’s much harder to recall your accomplishments later
ABI: Always Be Interviewing
Man I don’t wanna be that guy but how is common knowledge a life pro tip
Looking for a job while you have one increases your dissatisfaction with your current job.
Absolutely agree. You can be picky when you already have a job but when you know the bills aren’t going to get paid and you won’t get a check this week, you’ll take what you can get which probably isn’t what you wanted
Same with a spouse.
Good advice is “Don’t sell your old car till you have a new one.” This applies to everything; cars, homes, jobs, partners, etc.
Just quit my job not 5 minutes ago. I really do agree with what you’re saying and I should have been doing this much earlier. I let it get to the point where I simply cannot work my current job another day so I had to quit today, by this I mean I am having full body anxiety attacks on and off from the second I boot my computer to when I close it. but boy do I wish I had found the motivation to job search beforehand, It would relive a lot of the stress and uncertainty I am facing now.
The first time I heard this was when I was being let go from a job lol. This was the conversation:
> Employer: […Long story short, we’re letting you go]. BUT the best time to look for a job is when you already have one, so take all the time you need.
> Me: Ok so I’ll . . . see you on Monday?
> Employer: What? No. To be clear, we are letting you go. We’re telling the rest of the staff right now.
> Me: So wait what were you just saying about taking all the time I need?
> Employer: The best time to find a job is when you already have one. So you can tell people you work here until you find something new. It might help when you’re interviewing.
> Me: Oh…ok thanks?
I had worked there just shy of 90 days so that job never even made it onto a resume or portfolio or anything. The role obviously wasn’t working out for either of us and I got a new long-term gig within a few weeks, so no hard feelings or whatever, but I still think about that awkward conversation every now and then.
I find it incredibly hard to be readily available for interviews though. It’s easier when I’m not working.
and the best time to pedal is when you’re going downhill
What I will add is this, be mindful of your current job’s work culture and environment.
Money and even certain traditional benefits aren’t the only considerations. Relationships can also be pretty darn important. Especially once you get to a certain income. I’d actually get paid **less** for certain working conditions overall.
For example, setting my own schedule, having remote options, more free time off in general without having to use my PTO hours, a great relationship with my boss and a clear obtainable positive trajectory way forward, understanding coworkers, solid mission, great dress codes etc. People often quit their bosses over the job itself. So if you have an excellent work environment, you don’t always have to jump ship. You can always look, but grass isn’t always general just, because on paper it may sound nice.
I have a healthy balance of both good pay with excellent work environment. I could leave and get paid more, but money at a certain point starts to matter less and time mattering more once you’re to a certain point. If super young and just starting out jump some ships if that is in your wheelhouse to do and get your salary up there, but once you hit a certain number strongly consider long term happiness in the actual workplace. I traveled a ton Nad it was nice, but at some point you might want to do it more on your own watch than palcing up your family every 2 seconds. Food for thought.
Isn’t this common knowledge!?
Yes I made the mistake of quitting a job before I had another one set up and I regretted so much 😅 you never realize how hard it is to get a job.
The best time to look for a job is always. Never settle. The quickest way to climb the pay ladder is usually to keep changing jobs. I start looking right after year two- just long enough to get some tenure, make some accomplishments, and gain some skills. Then I ask for a big raise. If they reject it, I start applying to other places that start at the salary that they rejected. I’ve had 5 jobs in the last 10 years, and have almost quadrupled my salary from the first job by hopping like this.
Yep. I got a 68% pay increase and fewer responsibilities with just a couple of months of interviewing.
It is recommended to stay at a place for 2 years if it’s a more specialized job, so you can get the experience that most jobs want.
What do you do if you have an interview during working hours and have no day offs left
My saying has always been, “The best day to look for a new job is on the first day of your new job.”
Just wanna say thank you for posting this! I’m in the same boat and I know that this is intuitive but I really like you selling it articulately.
This works until you need to come up with convenient excuses for time off to interview
What is your response when they ask: “why are you looking for a job if you are already employed?”, “What made you apply for this position?”
I’m looking right now, but not much is available. I’ll keep looking, but not getting my hopes up.
What tips do you have specifically for construction management like a PM or estimator? I have a bachelors in CM, and military background.
I wonder how it would look like if we did the same with relationships
Been looking and doing tons of interviews for the last 4 years, only got ONE single yes, then I declined because it was the exact same wage and in person, and now I wfh, I have friends that are more skilled than me, more experienced that were laid off and are unemployed for over a year, more than a hudred of interviews, absolutely ZERO proposals, job market is completly fucked
Hmm I left my job 2 months ago without having another one lined up. I don’t have any social media presence at all. I work in tech and I landed a new job in 2 months with a 30% raise. EU btw.
You also have the ability to stand up and walk away from the interview whenever you want. This is leverage. You also have the confidence of someone who doesn’t need the job, which is attractive to employers.
Unless you have a boss like mine who regularly browses LinkedIn and similar sights looking for his employees names. He’s made it clear if he finds out we’re searching for a new job he’d fire us immediately.
Same thing with girlfriends
It applies to a lot of things in life.
The validation from having it makes it much easier to acquire others.
“Dont go shopping hungry.”
And all the people without jobs said…?
100p, when I have a job, if I update my resume on a job board I’ll start getting hiring managers emailing me for positions I’ve not even looked at.
Meanwhile when I have been unemployed looking for something, it’s crickets