It doesn't matter where you look - young employees trying to push for better pay, seasoned executives applying for new interviews or retired baby boomers trying to pursue a business they're passionate about - whichever way you look at it, everyone these days seems to be trying to have another go at the system. Career changes (or recareering, as they call it now) is about the hottest career move these days.
One of the most central parts of a re-careering strategy today, is the feeler interview or the exploratory interview. A feeler interview is a loosely defined consultation. Corporations recognize that career changes require a new kind of approach. Rectruiters and the companies they work for will often call people in for a general chat, to try to understand the circumstances of an applicant's skills, aspirations and special talents; and they will try to find out if the company can benefit from these. And since an exploratory interview isn't dead serious, prospective career changers have the stomach for tough questions about what exactly a company offers, and want the working environment and the challenge will be like. An exploratory interview is what you have when you make a clean change in your area of work, and you wish to explore an all-new industry.
Making a career change in midlife can be a lonely feeling. When I quit working with a public relations firm handling foreign government liaison for them, I had no job to fall back on, and I didn't even have a career to go to. I wanted something new. Still, the excitement of seeing how recruiters welcomed me into the interview room to find out how they might accommodate me, was really empowering. Corporations see these exploratory interviews as a great way to try to exploit areas of talent that they never knew existed before. With my experience handling negotiations with the Asians bureaucracy, a software major actually created a position for me where I could handle negotiations for their outsourcing deals.There actually are far more opportunities for executives to switch careers today with than there ever were.
As a way to get yourself into a new career area, the exploratory interview is an indispensable tool today. It's no longer just about the money; executives without a job do have enough money to go on for a while. Career changes for executive-level employees are all about job satisfaction. When you get in there for your exploratory interview, the whole unplanned atmosphere can be a little intimidating. An exploratory interview is really a two-sided affair - you are interviewing the business as much as they are interviewing you. It can be difficult to enter a field that you know nothing about, and to appear confident and job-worthy. Still, when you ask the right questions and pull it off, it's a winner for everyone.
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