Week 6: Job Search Project Plan Works to Generate Interviews
The past week and a half I have been following my job search project plan. resulting in a whirlwind of interviews, proposals and presentations. Some have had good results while others have had some not so good results.
My tasks for last week were:
- Draft my systems and business process re-engineering (BPR) management consulting proposal for the defense contractor, then meeting with them to review and finalize that.
STATUS – Done (see details below).
- Schedule my next interview with the marketing software and services firm.
STATUS – Done, face-to-face scheduled for this Thursday.
- Schedule my next meeting with the defense consulting firm.
STATUS – Done (see details below).
- Follow up with the military transitions executive recruiting firm (Lucas Group).
STATUS – Done. And contacted a second firm (Paul Tittle) that specializes in placing executives into the defense and intelligence industries.
- Follow up with the major satellite and systems integration defense contracting firm.
STATUS – Done, with follow up call tentatively scheduled for this Thursday.
- Follow up on the leads readers of this blog have sent to me.
STATUS – Done. I emailed and/or called each of these leads last week and will reach out again to them later this week.
- Create and/or update my resume accounts on key job search websites.
STATUS – Partially done. After losing track of which websites I had accounts with, the web sites where I still want to create accounts, and the sites I no longer want to use (did you know there are over 40,000 job search related websites? And an international association just for job sites), I created a spreadsheet. I’m now tracking these sites and have updated and/or created accounts on 15 employer-specific and key sites this past week.
- E-mail my updated resume to all my executive recruiting contacts.
STATUS – not done.
- Apply to five new positions.
STATUS – Done. I applied to nine new positions after reviewing and rejecting well over one hundred positions specs in detail.
- Order or check out the KSA books and websites several readers have recommended to me.
STATUS – Partially done. I found a new website, AvueCentral.com that helps you prepare and then submit federal job applications.
- Continue to follow up with my Military.com, MilitaryHire.com and LinkedIn contacts.
STATUS – still in process.
In addition:
- I followed up on a networked lead from Chris McCann of Gregory Laka & Co. with one of the top contractors for the Dept. of Homeland Security, which also has a number of contracts with the US Marines and most of the federal agencies. My initial interview with them went very well, and I have a follow up interview scheduled for this Friday.
- I continue to network inside a global logistics firm where my sister works.
- I pulled the industry list for the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Defense Contractors” from the recently released Inc. 500 2007 report. My intent is to research these companies and then contact/apply appropriately. So far, I have researched the top 25 and contacted one.
- I have researched general (1, 2), IT/Tech/Engineering, managerial and defense (1, 2, 3, 4) job fairs and identified a few that I may attend. However, I have two difficulties. One, job fairs are really not designed for senior executives, and in fact, I fear there is a certain stigma for executives who attend these job fairs. And second, almost all defense job fairs are either on military bases, at colleges, or require proof of a security clearance to even enter. Be that as it may, I registered for the CareerBuilder Job Fair for today (Sept. 12) in Chicago because it has a dozen
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