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March 12, 2011 I had the privilege to do a presentation last week to a group of approximately 20 internationally trained professionals to provide them with with some tips from an Human Resources practitioner's perspective for finding work in Canada. I had recently landed some new urgently required work with a client plus I was wanted to make some changes to a speech & then practice it for an upcoming Toastmaster's Competition. I had been very tempted to back out of this commitment and am very glad I did not. Yes, some of you that are reading this may know that I ran over time and was disqualified in my Toastmaster Competion because I did not practice the changes that I had to my speech. But regardless, I would do it all again. I met people from all walks of life. One had worked as a doctor in another country and when I asked the group about a peak experience in his life, he shared a story about saving a woman's life that had swallowed some poison. While preparing for this presentation, I asked the facilitator what areas I should cover. Naturally, the presentation was to include networking, resumes, interviewing but one that I had not thought about was keeping the job after attaining the position. This surprised me but the more that I thought about it, the more sense it made. There also seems to be a lot of information available about networking, resumes and interviewing but very little about what do you do to keep your job. Unfortunately, I do have a lot of experience in having to terminate employees and often have either been involved in decision making process of whether to terminate specific employees or have noticed some things. It is my intention in future blogs to expand on this topic. So now you landed, now what? What advise would you give to someone after they landed? I would appreciate your comments.
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