长找工作需要的个人和专业收费。CIO们的家庭和财务问题,而他们重新审视自己的职业生涯,面对不断变化的就业市场。但这里的CIO们如何能出现比以往更强大。
You got fired. You were laid off. You resigned. However it happened, you're out of work. What happens next can decide how the next several years go for you, and for your family.
对于一些IT管理人员,找工作可能是漫长而艰苦的。2009年,随着世界经济陷入衰退,标石花了半年时间在寻找一个新的职位后,饰品连锁砸了消除了CIO的位置。
For杰里·霍奇三年当他被解雇了作为汉密尔顿海滩,电器销售商的信息服务高级主管之间传递,而当他降落在去年在高尔夫设备公司动态品牌的IT主管。他在这段时间做了一些工作合同,但搜索的人的压力给他。“这是一个斗争,有时保持自己的情绪,”他说。“闪点是如此之低。”而现在,他又在找工作的。
Not only can self-esteem erode and depression set in for job hunters, but whole families can find themselves worried about the future. Marriages can disintegrate. Hodge got divorced during his job search.
Mark Tonnesen有财务方面的一些艰难的对话与他的家庭,他离开艺电今年七月CIO位置之后。他们不是在金融危险,他说,但有很少或没有钱进来是仍然紧张。“你必须要公开和诚实的,”他说。“我不会说这很简单。这是与我的妻子和家人一个持续的过程。”
精神上和情感的一场旷日持久的搜索准备是至关重要的伊恩McKeand,在招聘人员哈维·纳什英国CIO业务主管说。不仅CIO候选人的全球供应远远超过需求,他说,但自从上次许多CIO进行了一次搜索的商业环境也发生了变化。
Where a CIO may once have received job offers based on reputation and well-known IT achievements, those factors are only part of the equation today. The Great Recession, followed now by an intense period of digital disruption, has left some companies--some CEOs, really--unsure of what they want from a CIO. To improve the company's use of IT? Yes. To help set corporate strategy? Maybe. To develop new products and services? Well, that might be nice if I find the right person. To transform the company for digital business? Isn't that someone else's job?
今天,说:Erik Viens,化学产品和服务分销商尤尼威尔CIO的IT经理必须了解业务和宏观经济学,除了知道他的目标公司的挑战,他如何能直接向董事CEO和董事会。Viens采访了几个CIO工作,而他咨询2009年至2011年。创业精神,技术诀窍,有远见的技能和人才管理只是一些顶CIO必须具备的资产,他说。
Or, as McKeand puts it, "A CIO has to be an all-singing, all-dancing individual."
但是,很难跳舞时拒绝堆积,导致萎缩。失业的美国工人的平均长度是刚刚超过37周,根据来自劳工部的最新数据。超过37%,或410万1090万名美国人,没有工作被认为是长期失业 - 失业的至少27周。从2010年和2011年的45%羽绒,但它仍然是一个坏消息:长期失业的人只是在任何给定月份找到全职工作的12%的机会。
对于CIO来说,找工作可能需要6个月甚至更长时间。这些谁忍受失业旅程建议建立细致的求职程序,交换与外的其他工作高管的故事(和提示和恐惧),以及更新的方法来求职。你的目标公司的方式,可能需要大力改善。您的CIO角色的观点可能不匹配可用的作业。一些IT经理发现,该位置满足他们的愿望,并填写自己的简历不一定是所谓的“CIO”。
More Give Than Take
活动当天在2009年2月,当马克·斯通被扔进为砸了废除了他的CIO职位的就业市场,他没有在14年内写一份简历。他根本没想过build his peer network在几乎长。石乱作一团的前两个月,通过一个过时的关系网为线索刮。当他抓获即使是非正式会议,他说,他无法解释他的所作所为最好的。“我是面试准备不足,就业市场发生了变化,”他说。“我是一无所知。”
Then Stone, who has degrees in accounting and divinity, devised for himself a new approach to networking based on an economy of goodwill. He decided to help as many people as he could through mentoring, job tips and technology advice, among other methods. He met for breakfasts and lunches and attended local professional groups and conferences. His pay-it-forward idea is that once you've helped someone, they may want to return the favor and actively look for ways to do it.
在交谈中,同时,帮助他磨练自己的专业沥青,并透露公司隐藏的机遇和需求,他也不会约也称,他说。半年后,他被聘为安全-Kleen的,环境清理公司的CIO。
从那时起,他已派出通讯这个职业生活给他的联络,以及保持旺盛辅导计划。斯通是在安全-Kleen的为三年以上,当它被收购,新东家安装了自己的高级管理人员。在2013年1月,他告诉他的网络,他又失去了工作,很快收到了大量线索。“现在他们有机会帮我回来了,”他说。“这就像点燃火柴一堆干火种的”。
In April, he started as CIO for The Texas A&M University System. Stone's best job-seeker advice: "Never, ever disappear."
你最好的你
经验丰富的CIO们会说,在针对潜在的雇主,要匹配你的技能职位空缺和整体的企业文化。但是你要做到这一点,而不会失去自己。首先犯了大错石,例如,试图成为什么,他认为在桌子想要的人,而不是呈现什么使他独特。
什么是至关重要的说,Viens,长期担任CIO,是创建一个关于你自己的声明,让你脱颖而出。它是很难在很短的时间你公司高管获得正确定位自己。正如他一直寻求在多年的资深IT领导职务,他曾与如何让合适的人要注意,听到什么,他希望他们听到的挣扎,他说。“他们做的基础上,你很局部视图的决定。”
这需要耐力,以保持制备,访谈和重新面试,然后被评估,讨论并解剖的一个艰苦的周期。再加上一些心理测试,其中公司使用一系列通常由心理学家给予辨别的态度和人格特质的问题,求职者可以感到筋疲力尽,McKeand说,从哈维纳什。“我已经看到了一些[考生],因为这些方法拉的过程中,”他说。
Game-Changers Need Not Apply
我们听到了很多关于好的CIO应该如何帮助set company strategy and spin new revenue out of customer data. While you may want to do such work, it's not part of the typical CIO job description, says recruiterMartha Heller海勒搜索Associates的总裁。相反,它带有权力和地位的作用,随着时间的推移获得。
Usually, a CIO position is open because something is wrong in the company's IT department and the CEO wants a new leader to fix it, Heller says. For example, projects may be failing, or IT may not get along well with the rest of the company, she says. Having the CIO put technology into core products and meet with external customers is far down on the priorities list.
迈克尔Iacona发现他在2012年的搜索在2011年年底时为多,CIO迈克尔Iacona一直在寻找,在一家广告公司TMP全球一些五年后新。幸运的是,他是在一个财政状况,他可能需要长达一年的时间找到合适的工作。对他来说,这意味着一个纽约地区的公司在那里他可以承担风险和学习。虽然他不是在寻找另一个CIO角色设定,具体而言,他做了几个采访在非常大的公司。“老总不问CIO们,有很多次的,”他说。董事的一些CEO和董事会,其影响CIO招聘,持怀疑态度的IT领导者做的比制作工艺运行的任何其他的,他说。能够进入最终的两位候选人了几次,但没有得到这份工作后,Iacona决定从CIO的角色分支出来。
迈克·克利福德,全食超市的前任CIO,已经对“个人休假”自2012年9月,目前预计,他的下一个演出会不会像CIO。克利福德离开12年后的$ 13十亿杂货连锁店由于他所谓的共同决定,“现在是时候了不同的声音”引领IT那里。他对其他CIO和CTO职位一些试探性会谈,但意识到他没有承诺中的作用。他累了回答问题的技术,他说。“我的心脏是不是在里面。”
This year-plus of reflection has him contemplating operations jobs that contribute to growing a young company. He's no longer driven to chase titles for personal accomplishment, he says. And given that there is a limited number of large companies in the Austin area where he lives, he doesn't foresee an enticing CIO job opening soon. "I will find something I want rather than doing something someone just needs."
杰里·霍奇
杰里·霍奇说,他可能经历的每一种情绪有他的求职过程。他找遍了三年的全职位置下岗作为信息服务高级主管在Hamilton Beach公司于2010年在次生气或沮丧,那么有时多愁善感和乐观之后,霍奇说,这期间改变了他的生活。
起初他在搜索到周边地区Richmond, Va., where he lives. As the months passed, he expanded his range to the southeast coast, not wanting to be more than a half-day's drive from his two sons, who were in elementary and middle school then. He and his wife divorced during this time, compounding the stress.
Geek that he is, he says, he kept a spreadsheet of the more than 200 job inquiries he made and their results. It was one way to bring order to a situation that felt chaotic. "Unfortunately, unemployment is not like a project," he says. "You don't know when it's going to end."
He didn't miss a mortgage payment, but he had to dip into savings, he says. "But certainly not some of the desperate moves other people have had to do."
一个亲密的朋友是从他的公司松手大约在同一时间。和一群人围里士满10个CIO们定期开会,谈话。“我们必须相互依靠,问哲学问题,”他说。这包括通过专业的冷门会时出现的自尊的问题和家庭关系拼杀。“我可以打电话给该组中的任何一个,并说,“我挣扎,我需要找人倾诉,”他说。“他们一直在那里,同样的,我在那里他们。没有任何人谁只是一个接受者。”
He landed as director of IT at Dynamic Brands last July, and in January they "parted ways." Hodge is again looking and hopeful to get a 9- or 12-month contract position through contacts still warm from his 2013 search. He's determined to stay positive. "That's the only attitude you can take," he says, adding that recruiters pick up on negative vibes. "This is just a temporary bump in the road."
Mark Tonnesen
有时不良业务事件可以中断CIO的职业生涯中,马克Tonnesen,电子艺界的前CIO,知道了。
Tonnesen在电子艺界16个月,帮助建立公司的云计算设置,以支持其在线和移动游戏业务。但收入也上下摆动,在过去的几年里,和CEO约翰·里奇蒂耶洛三月2013 Tonnesen,其中里奇蒂耶洛聘用了,紧随其后辞职。
Now Tonnesen, who has also been CIO at IT vendors McAfee and Logitech, isn't necessarily looking for another CIO post. He is focused on high-growth companies where he can influence business strategy. That could mean a senior role in operations or customer service, he says.
要做到这一点,他花了大约一个小时,每天在LinkedIn上,提炼他的个人信息,与他的网络进行通信。他建立了大约每周吃五顿早餐,午餐或晚餐会晤,保留周五家庭时间。这些会议帮助他确定了自己的优势和卖点。同时,云计算Tonnesen咨询谁,是一个临时的CIO为聘用。
失业是一些令人惊讶的方式令人沮丧,他说。例如,跟踪作业狩猎费用,通过私人医疗保险方案涉水行政工作可以繁重。此外,Tonnesen开辟了他的求职全球。有一天,他可以飞往芝加哥,另一个他可能会做电话采访了一家欧洲公司,和第三天可能是安静,没有接受采访。“有这件事没什么,这是常规的,”他说。
Erik Viens