Career Struggle with Senior IT Professional
With recent changes in IT industry many senior professionals in IT industry have either lost their job or finding it even more confusing that whether they should stay or change the job. There is always a hidden fear in their mind about job and career. This problem is even more prominent for people who have been in the same job for many years and have not updated the resume or LinkedIn in the past. They may find it difficult to connect with unknown people over LinkedIn. Also as we all know that tech people are little hesitant in talking to people.
And when these senior IT professionals start looking for the job, they directly approach people or use LinkedIn to apply for the job but that does not work.
WTT 10X Career Strategy - Part#1
When they work with us and follow WTT 10X Career Strategy, we teach them that like any great things, it does not start with “Actions”. It start with “Vision, Mission, Industry Insights, Strategy, Goal Setting”. And same is true with their career as well. Hence we teach, how to first define your career vision followed by mission. Then doing a SWOT Analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) aligned with their long term and short term goals this is part 1. Yes just Part-1 🙂
WTT 10X Career Strategy - Part#2
Part 2 is to know deeper industry insights of IT Industry which I got to know while working with IBM, McAfee and insights which help me got offer from Microsoft. So they first learn about WTT 10x Roadmap in IT industry where they got to understand the different orbits of the companies that exist in the IT industry, CTC-XFactor which differentiate them. Then they have a reflection of their career so far and where do they want to position themselves and what are the ways to change their orbit as per their potential and performance
WTT 10X Career Strategy - Part#3
Once Part 1 and Part 2 is done then Part-3 is to build a strategy.
Here based on our USP, Strengths, Long Term Alignment, we find list of 200 companies. Yes, we do cover how to make a curated list of 200 comanies aligned to your profile and also how you should reach out to companies based on your short term and long term goals.
WTT 10X Career Strategy - Part#4
Part 4 is building a personalized development plan. We start tracking our personalized development plan that what all skills are required to grow form where we are right now to where do we want to be. This requires full lot of review starting from mindset to skill set to many other things. Some people have phobia of talking to people during interviews or they have certain uncomfortable question with they find hard tool answer and many more such things.
WTT 10X Career Strategy - Part#5
Part-5 is to build a WTT 10X Career Dashboard and tracker having job tracking sheet where we start tracking the professional connects we have the list of companies that are aligned with our unique requirements and how we can connect with people in those companies
At any point of time, WTT 10X strategy teach people that it’s not about hunting for the job but connecting with professionals to build a long term relationship has even though the short term goal is to get a job however the purpose of connecting with people is to build a lifelong professional relationship and continue exchange insights and learning from each other
WTT 10X Career Strategy - Part#6
After doing Part-1 to Part -5, comes the AI tools and other best practices. And this cycle keep on going.
I am not saying that, old method of reaching out to few people does not work. It works but senior leaders understand the importance of strategy which can help you yield more results even with limited resources. Same way applying the WTT 10X Career Strategy can yield better companies or better CTC or better positions or all of them.
I hope you now understand the roadmap to build a 10X career in IT Industry.
Let me know for any question or query that you might have. If you are interested in having a 1-1 discovery call with me. Do drop a message on our whatsapp or email for same.
Till that time, all the best for your career. Do let me know if this information helped you in some manner
Vikas Jain (Founder WTT, WorldclassTechTalent.com)
