{"id":424,"date":"2009-06-11T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-06-11T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:24:04","slug":"where-that-next-job-comes-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/where-that-next-job-comes-from","title":{"rendered":"Where that next job comes from"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a strange occurrence happen this week, and it brought to mind something I’ve pondered for several years:\u00a0 You can never tell where that next job might come from<\/em>.\u00a0 I don’t mean who the employer might be, I mean how you connect up with it.<\/p>\n

This week’s gift of chance came in the form of finding out about a job opening which hasn’t been posted yet, for which I am probably an extremely qualified candidate.\u00a0 I found out about it via an e-mail which was being sent around to a group of job seekers.\u00a0 I don’t know the original sender, and in fact he just heard about it as a third hand rumor.<\/p>\n

So here we have something which appears to have gone through at least five hands (OK, keyboards) before reaching me, and it’s the best job opening for me that I’ve seen in weeks.\u00a0 I already had a preliminary interview with the hiring manager, while the job still hasn’t been officially posted.<\/p>\n

Now, the previous<\/span> job I was in went like this:\u00a0 I saw a job posting on-line, investigated it, but by the time I got there the opening had been canceled.\u00a0 However, in the process of investigating it, I had talked to a person who knew someone who referred me to a different group that was thinking about opening a new job.\u00a0 The fact that I heard about it early meant that I was in a great position to ask broader questions about the strategic purpose for the job, and I might even have influenced the creation of the job – I’m not sure.<\/p>\n

I was in that job for three years, and really loved the bosses I worked with during that time.<\/p>\n

So what do we learn from this?<\/p>\n