Posted on 4 December, 2011
Career Planning
Some people want IR to be their lifelong career, while others enter the profession as a rotational assignment. No matter how you see it, career planning is a must. Where do you see yourself in five years? Are you working toward starting your own business? How do you find that next job? This page will provide some ideas and useful links.
MarketingLadder.com offers a newsletter with great career planning/job-hunting advice and inspirational articles. The site is well worth visiting even if you never see an IR position among the hundreds of six-figure job openings.
CareerJournal.com, the Wall Street Journal's executive career site, offers career management articles, job-hunting advice including tips on working with executive recruiters, salary and hiring info, columns and discussion boards. You'll remember some articles from past Journal issues.
Vault offers career and job-hunting advice - in particular, check out the articles on interview questions. Fortune called this "the best place on the Web to prepare for a job search." Vault also offers free e-newsletters on various topics.
Check out our webcast, including articles to help you take charge of your career.
Social Networking Online visibility should be an important part of your career strategy ? whether or not you?re actively looking for a job. There are a plethora of sites where you can post your profile and connect with others, but LinkedIn is probably the most useful from a career standpoint, because it?s focused on professional rather than social networking. Recruiters and companies regularly use LinkedIn to find and vet job candidates . . . you can use it to find people who work at companies of interest . . . and it?s a quick way to keep up with what your IR colleagues are doing.
Job-Hunting Most NIRI members start with the NIRI Career Center, where you can post your resume and screen IR jobs nationwide. To arm yourself for those all-important salary negotiations, don't forget to review NIRI's most recent IR salary survey.
Most job-hunters check the major sites (CareerBuilder, Monster.com) but these may be too general to be very useful - and companies get flooded with so many resumes that you're probably better off contacting the company via another channel. For example, find someone who works there as your "foot in the door." To search multiple sites at one time, check out Indeed.com.
Other employment websites in finance and/or communications:
Crain's Chicago Business has posted a list of . However, you might be better served by purchasing of the fastest-growing public firms and/or the largest publicly traded companies in our market.
For advice on how to work with search firms, visit the ?? section of the Repovich-Reynolds Group?s website.
Building Your Own Business A significant percentage of us will be freelance consultants at some point in our careers - which could entail developing an entirely new set of skills, from cash management to business development. Some helpful resources:
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