Use the hidden job market to identify, target, and land your next C-level opportunity, which may be much closer to you than you think!
Some opportunities are in the budget but are not advertised (yet), and so candidates don’t know about them. Of course, the team wants and needs another senior member, but the position remains empty for months.
And because filling a position within the upper echelon of an organization requires the attention of many senior managers, the senior team can feel they’re only making do without their missing counterpart. What they really want is someone with the qualifications to magically appear, someone who will make a smooth transition and just get the job done.
Josh’s story (not his real name).
The Security Ops Team at ABC was dealing with fraud issues caused by malware. Working 18 hours a day to fix the problem, the team had little time to recruit, although the approved job posting was sitting on the CEO’s desk.
Josh, a Security Operations Team Lead with a fin-tech company (a supplier to ABC), is ambitious, driven, and is targeting a senior-level role. Josh has been watching ABC, Inc. for months and has established relationships with the former CISO and current CEO.
Josh also knows the culture of the organization because he is often consulted in the CISO community for his ability to reduce data breaches. ABC ticks all the boxes. Their values are aligned, he knows the CEO, and the company is growing.
Josh has now positioned himself as the candidate of choice by carefully targeting ABC. It’s not luck; it’s the hidden job market and is one of my core operating principles of the Career Navigator Program. This program has helped executives get hired up for nearly nine years.
Learn more about the Career Navigator Program and get hired up here.
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Today is our last day at the cottage until next spring. I’m very proud of my husband (who’s not a trained carpenter) for building this magnificent woodshed at our cottage over the fall entirely on his own (I did provide some manual labor!). Made from Nova Scotia hemlock (a coniferous wood that smells like hemlock), this sturdy board-and-batten structure will keep our wood dry over the winter.
