This document discusses the need for "stealth job searches", where one looks for a new job while still employed. It recommends using LinkedIn to research potential hiring managers and career options. The key steps are to set a clear job search direction by emphasizing unused skills, reframe one's background for desired positions, and find hiring managers using professional networks and letters/resumes sent directly. Pursuing a "step up" from one's current job is advised over just any new role. Guidance on stealth job searches is available through a online course on the topic.

1. By Liz Ryan
CEO and Founder
Human Workplace
www.humanworkplace.com

2. Things have changed
Most of us are used to working at one job for a long time. We
didn’t have to job-hunt unless we got laid off or moved to a new
place.
The new-millennium workplace is different. We always have to
keep one eye on the job market. Things can change at any
moment.
You can be employed for a long time and then lose your job
unexpectedly. Or, you might dislike your job a lot and need to get
a new job before you quit the old one.

3. We all need to know how to conduct a
Stealth Job Search now!

4. A Stealth Job Search is a job search
that you conduct while you’re working
at the old job.

5. If you’re going to take the time and trouble to
launch a Stealth Job Search, shoot for a job
that’s a step up from the job you have now!

6. What does “a step up” mean to you?
A step up could be a new job that will let you
learn a lot more than you’re learning at your
current job.
A step up could mean a job with more growth
potential than the job you have now.
A step up could mean a job where the people
‘get’ you – and therefore deserve you!

7. Shoot for a Great Job, not just Any Job!

8. Step One: Set Your Direction!
Don’t start flinging resumes and job applications out into the job market
until you take a critical step:
Set your job-search direction!
Decide how you’re going to brand yourself. You don’t have to brand
yourself for the same kind of job you have now.
Can you re-frame your current job (and your past jobs)
to emphasize a side of you that your current job doesn’t utilize?
No better time than now! A job search is a new start.

9. Think about what you love to do,
what you’re good at
and what employers will pay for.
That’s your career sweet spot!

10. What should your
job-search direction be?
Read LinkedIn profiles and scan the job ads
On Indeed.com and SimplyHired.com.
Look at your career options. You have lots of talents.
Why not use a few more of them on your next job?

11. Now, brand yourself!
Let’s say you’ve been an HR person. You always
liked the technical side of HR. Now, you want to
be an IT person. No problem!
When you write your new Human-Voiced
Resume™ for your stealth job search, you’ll
emphasize the IT aspects of each of your past HR
jobs. You look like an IT person already!
(Because you’ve always been one, under the
surface!)

12. Reframe your
background
for the job you
want now!

13. Job Search Channels
As a stealth job seeker you can’t go to job fairs
or tell the whole world you’re job-hunting. You
can’t apply to ‘blind’ job ads that don’t identify
which company is hiring. That’s okay!
You can still work with recruiters, use your
network, and apply for jobs by contacting your
hiring managers directly. You can send them
your Human-Voiced Resume™ together with a
letter called a Pain Letter™, through the postal
service!

14. How do I find my hiring manager at
another company?

15. This story explains how to find your
hiring manager using LinkedIn!

16. You don’t have to keep a job that doesn’t grow your flame.
You can bring your whole self to work!

17. Help! I could use some
guidance on this stealth job
search stuff.
The 12-week virtual course “Job-Hunt While
You’re Working” launches on the first Saturday
of every month. It’s a self- paced course. You can
work on the lessons whenever it suits you.
If you’d like to move through the lessons
quickly, you can have them all delivered to you
at once!
Check out the course “Job-Hunt While You’re
Working”at this link!

19. Step out there!
The new-millennium talent
market requires us all to
grow new muscles.
It’s fun!
Human Workplace
Reinventing Work for People
www.humanworkplace.com