Are you looking for some of the best tech career opportunities of our lifetime? Guess what,
we found them for you, the great resignation. Your greatest opportunity of our lifetimes.
Hi, my name is Michael Gibbs and I'm the founder and CEO of Go Cloud Architects,
and we're an organization that's dedicated towards building high performance cloud computing careers.
Personally, I've been working in tech for over 25 years and I've been helping others get their first
tech job or get promoted in tech for over two decades and it's my favorite thing in the world
when one of my students gets cloud hired, or cloud promoted. Today, we're here to talk about
the great resignation which I'm going to know. I believe is one of the best opportunities of
our lifetimes, an opportunity to get new tech jobs, an opportunity to get promoted in tech,
really an opportunity to really build our careers, and there's a lot of reasons this
is going on, but the point is there's a lot of opportunity if we leverage it.
So, I'm going to talk about what is this situation and how we leverage it to maximize our career,
whether want to get a new tech job or whether we want to get promoted in our organization. In
either case, this is our chance, it's a great opportunity, so let's make sure we leverage
this opportunity to maximize our career. So, what's going on with the great resignation. So,
what's going on is there's this concept of this great resignation, where millions of people are
literally quitting their jobs, and when the people are putting their jobs they're saying, I've been
working too hard, working conditions aren't good enough, whatever the case is people are leaving
their jobs and it's typically people that are in their mid-career and it's typically people in
the healthcare and the tech field, and since we're all tech professionals here, if people are leaving
their jobs in tech, it means vacancies in tech, which means job opportunities and promotions.
So, let's talk about how to leverage and take advantage of this wonderful opportunity,
great opportunity. Anytime there's vacancies, that's a chance to move in or move up. So,
we're going to talk first about moving up. Let's say you're working in an organization and you're
part of an organization and lots of the people are leaving due to the great recession, how do you
take advantage of this, so you can move up, get promoted, and have a better job? Well, here's the
thing, you're in a company and maybe your manager leaves or the more senior people leave, it's your
chance to go take those more senior jobs. So, the first thing you do with the process is you've got
to communicate to your manager. If you want to get a promotion or move into a more senior role,
you have to talk to your manager. You're going to the buy-in and the assistance from your manager.
If your manager doesn't want you getting promoted, you need to know that straight right now
because then you might go elsewhere because if your manager won't let you get promoted,
it's just not even going to be an option. So, you need the buy-in of your manager,
but also in many organizations, you're going to have to interview for these promotions and you
may not know that until you talk to your manager. So, make sure you talk to your manager and say,
"I have aspirations of being the team lead. I want to be the manager. I want to be the
principal architect," or whatever it is you want, start with your manager. Now, we have to change
the perception. We have to build your brand to whatever it is the ultimate brand of your job.
So, we're going to start that with the way we dress.
There's some very interesting data from Harvard, and it shows that when it comes to communication,
55% of the communication is what we look like when we say something, literally speaking what
we look like, our posture, our clothes, 55% of all communication is what we look like.
38% of communication is what we sound like and 7% is our actual content, so dress for the job
you want. 55% of all communication is what you look like, so dress for the job you want. Now,
in team meetings, this is a really great opportunity when managers are assigning tasks
and everybody else is hiding, volunteer for things and volunteer for the big things, the things that
management cares about, the things that maybe even the CEO sees about, the high visibility ones,
go volunteer for some of these big projects and deliver them with excellence, deliver them with
perfection, show how you are so much better than the rest just by doing such a good job.
So, now you've told your manager, you're dressing better, you're volunteering for projects,
take a chance. Now, we've got to still tune your brand, so we've got to tune your resume
for the job you want, not the job you have. Pull out all of the things that you've done
that are related to the future job and make sure they're there and make sure they're clear.
Do the same thing with your LinkedIn page, optimize your social media profiles. If
you've got any negativity on your social media profiles, get rid of it. Anything that doesn't
paint you in the best light, get rid of it. Now, also start practice interviewing
because you may have to interview. Practice your presentations, you're probably going to have
to deliver presentations as part of the interview process to move up, but go after it,
get any training that you need, work on your communication skills, work on your soft skills.
I'll give you some secret advice, if you actually look at what helps,
whether it be cloud architect careers, or network architect careers, or any tech careers,
soft skills training on average raises salary approximately 30%
and emotional intelligence training on average raises salary about $29.6000 per year. Emotional
intelligence and likability are some of the biggest factors for your career, so make sure you
work on those things. That's really key to moving up. It's not just your technical competency,
it's all those other things, communication skills, emotional intelligence, et cetera, et cetera. So,
that's how you move up, and this is how you take advantage of this economy and people
quitting to move up. Now next, moving in. This is an extremely good opportunity, especially if
you're not your typical job candidate and we'll talk about what that means in a minute. There is
a massive shortage in tech. In fact, there's been a massive shortage in tech for the last 25 years.
There's quite simply just nowhere close to enough technology professionals that are competent
to actually do the job, to meet all the demand. So, there are real critical shortage. Now,
there are some places that are more critically short. Cloud is extremely short because everything
seems to be migrating to the cloud and we're all migrating to the cloud for good reasons. That's
the next logical step of the networking and the data center and is very transformative in nature,
but the point is there's all these jobs and we couldn't fill them before,
and now with the great resignation, we've got people leaving and now we couldn't
fill them before, and so there's vacancy, vacancy, vacancy. So if this is your first job, guess what,
it's going to be easier for you. Now, it doesn't mean the companies are going to hire
people that don't have the competency at all, but it means it's going to be easier for you.
And, they're going to be willing to look past some things. So, if you are new, here's your chance to
get hired. Now, if you're new, I want to make sure you know the secret to getting your first tech
job. It is not about being certified in a million things, it's about being really technically
competent at your field, but that's only half of it. When we hiring managers interview someone,
50% of the candidates' interview score is their technical abilities, but the other 50% is their
attitude, their likability. Specifically speaking, managers are looking for technical competency,
but they're also looking for trustworthiness, energy, enthusiasm, emotional intelligence,
communication skills, attitude, team player. So, this is what organizations look like,
that ability to go above and beyond, that's what organizations are looking for. So here's
the thing, train your technical abilities, but train your interview skills, your soft skills,
your emotional intelligence, your communication skills, your presence, train all of it.
So, when you go on this interview, and of course, train those interview skills,
and now if you're a 40 out of 50 on technical competency and a 50 out of 50 on everything else,
you're a 90 out of 100. The company's going to hire you with or without experience.
The key is now they're willing to look past some experience requirements even more. Now,
I've always been able to help people get tech jobs without experience, but it's a process.
We tune this, we tune this, we tune this, we tune this, we tune this and we still have to do all
those tuning things, but now there's going to be more opportunities because there's just so many
vacancies because think of it this way, the people that are middle careers, a lot of them are already
like cloud architect types or solution architect types or enterprise architect types or managers.
They've either moved out or moved out and now you can go take those jobs and now as you come in,
other people will fill another need. Now, to keep moving in, here's the secret, build your brand.
Find whatever is the perfect brand for your career and go build it, optimize your resume. Make sure
that your resume says exactly your new career. Make sure your certifications that are going to
be on your resume, those that you have, exactly match your career or get rid of ones that don't.
Make sure everything on your resume matches your career. Now, do the same thing with your LinkedIn
page. Now, go through your social media profiles and make sure that you've got nothing negative,
nothing that others could hold against you, nothing that shows you in your negative light.
Everything you have should show you in a professional, proper light.
That's your brand. What kind of brand do you want to build? You want to build a brand of strong,
reliable, capable, trustworthy with good integrity. You want to be responsible because
that's what we need in this organization. You need the world to know that you're hardworking,
you need the world to know that you're positive, emotionally intelligent, and capable, so go build
that brand. Train likability. I have to tell you, I train likability with all my students
and you know why I do it, people are more likely to hire those people that they like. Work on those
communication skills. The communication skills are your most valuable skill you can develop.
Studies on training communication skills typically shows a salary raise of over 30%
and I know I talk about that a lot, but communication skills are so
important, but they also help you get hired because they make you more likable
and hiring managers are really looking for good communication and soft skills.
Work on that emotional intelligence. Statistics show that those people that are most emotionally
intelligent have the best careers, so work on your emotional intelligence, work on your presence.
Don't be that person that goes, today we're going to talk about how this works for you today.
We'll learn the executive presence, learn how to talk, make a point, pause, make your next point,
pause. So, you're not like this because people think you're weaker. You want to
learn how to take up time, take up space, have your executive presence. So, just like you can
see the difference with me now, the hiring manager can see it with you. Then, wow them
on that interview. On your interview, be honest, but be trained for this interview, be prepared,
and when the interview asks, do you have any questions, ask the interviewer,
what are your goals? And, if the interview looks at you say, I'd like to know what are your goals,
so that if I was in your team I know that I can be certain that I can make you successful.
Just watch how that changes the interview. The interviewer will look at you as well,
you're a partner, and they may just offer you the job just on that. But guess what, by asking
the interviewer, what's important to them, you've gained a lot of intelligence. Here's what you've
learned. If you're going to be happy in that job, because you know what it takes to be successful
in that job, what's going to make the manager successful, is that a job you want? And, you now
know you've interviewed the hiring manager right then and there and you did it in a way that's
going to increase the rapport between you and them and make that hiring manager more convinced that
you're the right person for the job because you're concerned with making them successful.
So, wow them on the end of the interview. So here's the thing, the great resignation
means a lot of people are leaving their jobs. Lots of people leaving their jobs means incredible
amount of vacancies, lots of vacancies gives you the opportunity to get promoted or get a new job.
So, don't let this crisis go to waste, use the great resignation to be your greatest tech job
opportunity. My name is Michael Gibbs. I'm the founder and CEO of Go Cloud Architects and it's
an honor to talk to you. I will see you in another video coming very soon. Take care.
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