Sidebar: Wisdom from the Wilderness
- Don't go to every Tom, Dick and Harry with your resume or you may be seen as desperate.
- Don't go asking your contacts for a job - ask for advice or information, find out what skills are important in this sector.
- Get yourself known and hopefully the word will spread.
- Remember that recruiters are more focused on the client than the candidate - they're not working for you.
- It can be a lonely experience because as a CIO people are clamouring for your time and all of a sudden the phones aren't ringing. Don't take it personally.
- Read What Colour Is Your Parachute? to get a range of suggestions of what to do in these circumstances
Join the CIO Australia group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.