Stepping Stones at Job Places

There are stepping stones at the job place, a way of gathering experience so that you can leap from one job to the next. So if you have had your fill of teaching you can move onto managing a school or if you have had experience in telemarketing you might want to try customer service and then marketing. The way to jump from one job to another is to perceive indications that might be useful.

Here I have outlined some factors in knowing when to move and what to look for:

1. If you have been telemarketing and have found that your human resources officer is looking for a supervisor, that is a good indication that you can get away form the phones, so to speak. You will still have to manage phone calls but at least you can answer them on your time as opposed to having to a large quantity of repetitive calls. So keep an eye out for job notices and try to get transferred.
2. If you are familiar with customer complaints and tired of the quality control, which grades you unfairly, that may be a good indication that you are ready for something else. You might look into something at the level of quality control, which is essentially putting the shoe on the other foot. But if this is the only way

To move up the corporate ladder than it might be a wise choice.

1. If you are have already acquired a talent for knowing how to generate sales and have had experience on the floor, then you could also approach your employer regarding a marketing assistance job. They would be pleased to have a keen employee and one who has a proven sales track record with clients on the phone and has been able to work into accounts and solve customer complaints on his own. This is the making of a marketing assistant.
2. Look out for courses offered at your local employment centre or through the community. The Jewish community in Montreal offers seminars geared to fill in the holes left behind because you never learned Excel and need it to make spreadsheets for a cultural organization. Sometimes the seminars are on developing leadership skills and that could serve you well in marketing because then you might be managing a sales team that will have to have your input on how to approach the client.
3. If you see that the company is offering you a chance to change your shift in your favor, it is probably because you have gained seniority. Use the seniority as leverage to gently persuade your manager that your talents might be put to better use working in another department since you have already acquired certain skills.
4. Likewise if the company is going to downsize try to accommodate the change by putting in a request for a transfer to a different department. If you have learned a little IT management along the way and like working with computers here might be a chance to work in another environment. If it you had software development training use that to get yourself into a web page department. All this is good especially if you have been in sales and want to get out of that.
5. Look at job boards and university bulletin boards that keep up to changing trends in the market place regarding employment. You might even speak to a guidance councilor there to find out what employers have recently canvassed at the school so that you have a hot lead to work on.