HDI San Antonio, The IT Support/Service Management Community is excited to announce our 8th Annual Awards Luncheon, Thursday, December 7th, honoring San Antonio’s Top Service Desk and Desktop Support Personnel.
We offer this program at no cost or obligation to ALL local area IT Support organizations.
Would you like more information? Please feel free to contact Bernard Beaullieu, VP & Past President, HDI San Antonio at 210-710-4161.
www.hdisanantonio.org
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Posted by Jonathan Beaullieu on Friday, July 28, 2017
In 2007 I founded Beaullieu & Associates, Inc. to be the antithesis of today’s recruiting practices by offering a unique, high-end approach to IT Staffing and Recruiting.
Back around 2000 I traded in my IT operational leadership career for a region manager role with a small startup IT Staffing & Services Company. It was there that I saw firsthand just how powerful our approach could be.
I was compelled to put my leadership skills, my passion for developing people and high performing technology teams, to work recruiting the best possible person…The right fit! Our customers loved us. We were able to develop a handful of enterprise accounts into a thriving multi-million dollar business.
Today more than ever, our clients appreciate our ability to understand their requirements and consistently find and engage great people. The depth of our offering goes way beyond traditional staffing. In our world, integrity, trust and mutual respect create a spirit of true collaboration where performance, results and driving overall value rule the day!
Our mission is to help people, teams and entire organizations achieve the success they desire.
Every hiring decision, every promotion involves selecting someone from the final two or three qualified candidates that survive the process. How can you significantly improve your chances of making it to the final group and being the one selected for the position? What is it the pushes the final candidate over the top?
It’s all about value…More specifically being able to clearly demonstrate/articulate the value that you bring to the team/organization will set you apart from other candidates. I know this sounds nebulous. Webster defines value as the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.
There is a plethora of information, articles, blog posts and advice available about resume writing and navigating through the application process to actually getting an interview. Most of this advice focuses on skills, experience and showing you meet the requirements. Who wants to hire “Meets Requirements?” Value transcends skills and experience and allows you to paint a picture of the impact that you will have on the organization. How powerful is that?
In my world, value starts with your personal brand…Those 3 or 4 traits that define you as a person and serve as your guiding light. All of those thought-provoking interview questions and scenarios you run into aim to give the hiring manager some insight into how you approach situations. They are probing to uncover what guides you and the overall value that you might bring to the organization in the future. I believe personal brand is the deciding factor when it comes to making the final hiring decision. For me, it’s all about integrity, value and commitment.
What is your personal brand? What is it that guides you in your career and everyday life? Do some real soul-searching here and think about what you stand for and how you would like to be perceived. From today on make sure that your decisions, your actions and how others perceive you consistently reflect your personal brand. If you don’t like it…Change it…Now! Start making decisions and performing in a manner that will enable you answer those tough interview questions with real life examples that reflect your personal brand.
The next part of the value equation is being able to show how you will perform and fit into the organization. I spent a good part of my career leading large information technology support teams covering multiple states and large geographic territories. I learned to appreciate the overall effectiveness and performance of the people I had supporting the remote areas and what I call their Remote Mentality. It’s all about being able to thrive in a culture of empowerment, ownership and mission.
What could be more valuable to a hiring manager, a team or an organization than bringing in someone who serves the mission, owns their area of responsibility and always does the right thing?
Lastly, let’s talk about skills and experience from a value perspective. What skill, what experience, what knowledge do you have that will bring the most value to the teams/organizations you wish to join? Throughout our careers, all of us experience new initiatives, projects, roll-outs, acquisitions and mergers…Change in general. Did you lead the effort? Were you a contributor? Did you embrace the change? Did you blaze a trail? What tangible results did your organization realize from your efforts?
Use this value perspective to craft your elevator pitch, resume and the real life examples you plan on talking about during the interview process. The idea is to paint a clear, concise picture of the great things you will do and why you are the best choice for this position.
In 2007, I founded Beaullieu & Associates, Inc., to be the antithesis of today’s recruiting practices by offering a unique, high-end approach to IT Staffing & Recruiting that focuses on delivering value, performance and results.
Today more than ever, our clients appreciate our approach and the overall value we bring. The depth of our offering goes way beyond traditional staffing. In our world, integrity, trust and mutual respect encourage a spirit of true collaboration.
We have had the privilege of leading and connecting with many great Information Technology Professionals on a daily basis, literally thousands over the years, helping them advance their careers and achieve their dreams. Understanding and projecting “Who You Want To Be”, your personal brand is a great first step towards achieving the success you desire and getting your career on track.
There is tons of information and advice out there about how to craft a good resume, how to answer tough interview questions and how to navigate your way through the selection process to get to the final cut. So what next?
Understanding, articulating and projecting your “Personal Brand” provides a very solid foundation for being successful at anything you do. Your personal brand is those three or four attributes that guide you and are reflected throughout your life’s body of work.
“What’s Your Personal Brand?” For me, it is all about Integrity, Service, Value and Commitment.
Integrity – Integrity is the foundation of any successful individual or team. Integrity builds trust. Trust empowers people. Empowered people propel teams to new heights and in new directions.
Service – Helping people, teams and entire organizations achieve the success they desire.
Value – The importance, worth or usefulness of something. What do you bring to your team or organization? Are you an MVP when it comes serving the mission and achieving results?
Commitment – Are you dedicated to the cause…mission? Can we count on you? Will you own it and see it through?
Knowing and living your personal brand leads to a great deal of consistency and confidence even under the most extreme situations. As you look to progress to the next level you will be asked to give examples of how you performed under difficult scenarios. Living and then recanting those experiences with the perspective of your personal brand as the guiding light will portray a clear and concise view of who you are.
Start with a clear understanding of who you want to be. Go out and build your personal brand to achieve the success you desire!
In 2007, I founded Beaullieu & Associates, Inc., to be the antithesis of today’s recruiting practices by offering a unique approach to recruiting that focuses on people and their potential for delivering value, performance and results.