This year I have been on the job market again and it’s been an educational experience. One issue I am having is how to explain me the person. The big thing I am trying to do is to move to a much larger business than my previous employer. That has been a problem but I am happy to say one that seems to be mostly solved. The other is how to describe the last 18 months or so of my job life. For the most part it’s been boring. I haven’t had many complected issues to solve. That kind of slowdown can cause some problems. It does make you less sharp with your skills because practice makes perfect.
So my question is how to you convince staffing firms and human resource departments that I would like a position that might be a slight step back than what my resume and own knowledge and experience says I should do. How do you tell them that I would like to get some more practice in to sharpen my slightly dull mind for I can operate once again at my optimum level. I do have a lot more to learn and achieve in my career and maybe I need to take a small step back to make a giant step forward. In other words need to work on my Mojo.
This is a concept that I learned in the Navy. Remedial training was part of the program because skills not always in use gets dull after a while. Training and retraining was the key to readiness. What I want to do is like that. Get back to the basics to make me ready for the career advancements ahead. Microsoft also knows this because the first of the series of test you take for your network engineers certification is the basics on desktops.
