Is your company trying to hide you?
Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter
When you go to the store to buy detergent, you or anyone you know pick up two or three different products, look at the ingredients list, and say to yourself or loudly, “Hmm. Chemicals and their interactions can cause my laundry to turn whiter than other brands.”
No!
People buy detergents based on anything other than a list of chemicals or ingredients. They buy because their husband, wife, partner, mother, father or friend tells them to buy. Maybe they made the decision based on the price, or because they had coupons. No one thinks that the relationship between one chemical will bring better results to another product.
These companies build a brand that allows you to choose them. This is also what people need to do to be selected and sought.
Control your job interview
The 2018 article on CIO compensation points out their seven-figure compensation packages, including salary, bonuses, stock options, etc., and asks the question: How do they get these positions? Some promote internally, but often these men and women’s companies or search companies they hire to evaluate talent based on their experience, qualifications and perceived value as leaders.
How do they find it?
When I started searching, the company worked with search companies and did a lot of advertising to find talent. There is a crucial day for newspapers nationwide, where ads need to appear on (usually Sundays) when companies will open large ads to attract resumes, while job seekers will search for print ads to find suitable jobs. Today, when the ads run online 24/7, it seems strange that people can apply at any time.
I remember that I would usually walk into hundreds of resumes on a typical Monday morning from job seekers who want my attention. Few people deserve to watch for six seconds or less.
Both companies and searchers require referrals from contact networks of qualified or potentially helpful. An individual who provides advice and recommendations from others has always been an excellent way to receive distribution leads. Add this is the idea of having public jobs that will make you a subject matter expert on LinkedIn or Google.
What happens when the need to improve yourself, knowledge and career is against company policies, how to use social media and how to improve yourself as a speaker or conference host?
From my experience, some companies are taking action to limit the ability of their employees because of fear that searching companies and others will contact them and “poaching” (stealing) (stealing) to another organization. These employees are still allowed to have LinkedIn profiles, but may not be allowed to write articles or books in any medium. They may also not allow public speaking, let alone any form of media interviews.
Sadly, most employees only know the policy after being hired and are now restricted by the organization in ways they do not know or consciously agree to. It is time to add a question to the interview question raised by job seekers, especially senior professionals:
“Will you limit my professionalism and online visibility if I’m going to join?”
“What do you mean?”
“Are there any policies that I can disclose in LinkedIn profiles? Can I limit my ability to write articles for industry publications or speak at conferences or interview media based on my expertise?
Unless you hear “There’s nothing we can do to hinder your public awareness” (or the word for this effect), you can choose now. Should you continue the interview and let your career be bound by my employer or say politely, “I think this is acceptable?”
Some companies will explain that they are trying to prevent employees from contacting their employees for fear of opportunities to leave. One thing I know is that employees don’t leave their favorite jobs, give good work, and treat their managers quickly. Instead, they leave work because over time the employer/employee expectation breaks down, which makes the employee think about himself: “Maybe I should look for something else” or “If the right opportunity lands on my legs, I will leave.”
As I often say, people who succeed are not always the smartest or hardest to work, even though it is the great quality to possess. People are wary of opportunities to succeed. Anything your employer does can limit your ability to “find” or develop a reputation of an expert. Remember, before committing to a new company.
ⓒMajor Game Hunter Company, Asheville, North Carolina, 2019, 2021, 2023
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