How to Find a New Job While Staying With Your “Old” Employer
Sometimes people want to change jobs, but don’t want to change employers. Large organizations with a variety of departments can accomodate such employees more easily than small businesses.
Tai Goodwin addresses the issue of internal transfers and offers some helpful tips in her article, Job Search in Your Own Backyard: 8 Steps to Changing Jobs With Current Employer. Goodwin starts by identifying those times when “and internal transfer makes sense.”
- to shed a negative reputation
- to make a new start after getting to involved with office politics
- to get away from a poor employee-manager relationship
- to find a department that’s better suited to the employee’s skills and interests.
- to get out of a reorganized department
- to advance a career
- to take advantage of regular job announcements on the company job board
Once an employee figures out why he wants to move, it’s time to figure out how to go about doing it. Goodwin offers these tips:
1. Start asking questions.
2. Browse the internal job boards.
3. Expand your internal network.
4. Get clear on your passion and values.
5. Strengthen your performance.
6. Upgrade your resume.
7. Prepare your pitch.
8. Create a learning plan.
Finding a new job internally is not so different from from finding one externally, as Tai Goodwin demonstrated in her article. Goodwin’s tips could prove useful to those employees who want to change jobs without leaving their current employers and are uncertain how to do it.
