Motivation. All the great trainers and speakers talk about it. Famous sports coaches talk about it being your “why” because if it is not big enough you won’t push yourself through the inevitable obstacles you will face. A continuing theme of HBO’s Hard Knocks for sure. So, how does this pertain to hiring in 2024/2025?
The Layers
As I have written about over the last couple of months, it’s a very different environment to getting and being hired – for both the candidate and the hiring manager. Both are being controlled and influenced by outside decision-makers. The days when a hiring manager interviews, recommends, and gets single approval to hire are gone forever. Now, C-Suite is so involved in that process as well as regulatory compliance. Firms want to make sure that you really want to go to work for them. So much so that they are having many additional layers added to the process, and it’s your “why” that has to be continually demonstrated. It’s no longer that you want to go to work at a particular firm, but the strength of your conviction that needs to be demonstrated.
Time & Communication
With all these additional layers, time is obviously being added to the process as well. Regretfully, there are going to be moments where you are going to get frustrated with the extended process. This is when you have to reach deep into your own self and remember your particular “why.” It had to be extremely specific, or the frustration will get to you. Knowing your motivation and being able to communicate it consistently to yourself as well as your hiring manager is becoming crucial. Your “why” must be stated with conviction and emotion in each and every communication with the hiring firm’s personnel.
Big & Strong
Asking yourself why and reinforcing that will make the process more tolerable. If your why is not big enough, you will waver from your initial decision to move forward in the interview and hiring process. If your why is not strong enough, any bump in the road could easily derail you from moving forward. Complacency could definitely take ahold of you, and keep you where you are currently at. Or maybe you just decide the process is taking too long, you’ll just retire, or any myriad of things. However, if that why is a true motivating factor, you’ll push through, excel at consistent interviewing, answer all the inquiries compliance may raise, and get yourself hired for that next exciting adventure.
Conclusion
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About Harlan Friedman, JD & Founding Member, H. Friedman Search LLC. Harlan is a thirty-year veteran Public Finance Banker turned recruiter who specializes in the placement of all levels Public Finance Bankers, Healthcare Bankers, Municipal Advisors, Compliance Officers, Issuers, and Bond Counsels.