You're on furlough. Financial Analysts is not your specialty want to work in
consulting for fashion industry working on Six Sigma awesome as we speak tips to
get considered interviews told go back to school for it so I would not
necessarily do that you are so somebody was asking about you know is it a good
time to look for work during the pandemic is it a good time looking for
remote work during the pandemic the one thing that is going to be more difficult
is making a career change just more difficult not impossible okay so I don't
you know I don't want to scare you and if if you're really right if your head
is screwed on straight right now you're doing everything you possibly can to get
your credentials up so when this thing is over you're in a better position to
actually make that step and make that leap so if you want to work in
consulting for fashion I don't know exactly what that entailed mean I was a
consultant for a long time in technology and and management consulting and
business processes and software systems and those kind of things and I am
familiar with Six Sigma and I understand what it teaches and lean as well I think
all of those things are great for you to do especially if you want to consult in
fashion or any consumable or wearable good or manufactured good or anything of
that nature but in interviews my advice on that is and I I don't your name is
not familiar to me I don't know if you're a first-timer I certainly don't
remember your face but I always say to anybody trying to do anything that is
and by the way this could be a simple job change so you're a financial analyst
you want to be a financial analyst somewhere else this could be a career
change you want to your financial analyst you want to be a fashion
consultant you could be a new college graduate 22 looking for a new job you
could be any any want anybody I mean capital whatever it might be your time
is best spent seeking out people who will take a chance on you and have
openly advertised it meaning don't spend your time trying to convince somebody
that they need to take a chance on you if they are not already mentally there
so if I'm a if I'm an employer and I'm looking for somebody to hire and while I
would appreciate experience I'm open to hiring a college student and I know that
I can build the skills on the job or I can take somebody who's got great
organizational skills process skills and is going for her I don't you know Six
Sigma belts and all that good stuff and train her if I mentally they're you your
job is a job seeker in a career changer is to find those people do not try to
spend a lot of time convincing somebody who doesn't already believe it why do
you not want to do that number one you're burning a lot of time on the
front end if they've already made up their mind you're wasting your time
let's just say sake of argument you're able to convince them and they do take a
chance on you they have a very very short wick they are gonna be very very
impatient because two three four or five weeks in I mean like you know what I
know she's not catching on fast enough you know I should have listened to my
gut hey Nadia you're out of here right there's a lot of that that happens
people think that they're successful because they get a job when I would say
I don't know if that's good or bad I wish you congratulations you might have
picked the wrong company you might have picked the wrong job you might have
changed it the wrong time I don't know if it's successful or not you don't know
that until until you can look back employers who think that they made a
successful hire they don't know shit you don't know anything the moment that you
start you can't know that for months you can't make me know that for a year right
so so think about that so in your case I would keep doing what you're doing but I
would adjust to who I was targeting I would adjust to who I was targeting and
I would not be worried about interviewers who say well you got to go
back to school that's short-sighted it's bad mindset and I don't know anybody
whose schooling I would value more than on-the-job experience so you have
highlight your on-the-job experience that aligns to those things the Six
Sigma and going for any degree any certification any whatever is great that
will give you a better advantage if you're making a change that's not nearly
as important to me is what you learned on the job as a financial analyst that
you can somehow connect the dots for me that that applies so those are the
things so my tip is I would not be going back to school I would be spending my
time not my money not my time going back to school I would be spending my time
searching for organizations who are open to it they are out there they are you
just haven't found them yet put your effort into that okay I hope that helps
you