By Patty Orsini
Mark Alcaide worked for a national financial-services company in Boston for nearly a decade. When he was laid off last September, he immediately began to search for a job that resembled the one he had at a company that had laid him off. But he ran smack into the worst job market the finance industry had seen since the Great Depression.
“My first reaction was to reach out to all the networks that I knew in the financial services industry,” he said. “(But) when I looked more strategically at what I wanted to do, I realized the financial-services world is hurting. I had a senior executive role, and getting another one quickly was going to be challenging.”
Alcaide reached out to Keystone Associates, a career-management firm, that helped him realize he had options other than finance and jobs he had never considered.
About 90 percent of the clients Keystone works with are like Alcaide — trying to replace the job they had, said Cheri Paulson, senior vice president of Keystone Associates.
“For many of these people, financial services is the only career they’ve known,” she said. “So I tell them to do an assessment and look at all the options. I want them to look at how their expertise can transition to another industry. It’s a matter of moving your skills around.”
In Alcaide’s case, Keystone’s methods convinced him to promote experience and skills he had considered irrelevant to his career.
“I was reminded of all of the experience I had in the not-for-profit sector: I am a trustee for two charities and had worked in the charitable arm of the firm.” Both positions were on his resume, but he never drew attention to them or incorporated them into his career discussion.
Alcaide included the trustee positions and began to talk about the financial oversight he was responsible for in his last role, and before long he was in the running to be the CFO of a large global health-care foundation based in Boston.
He never held the title “CFO” in his career, but his resume made it clear he had the responsibility and the experience. “Nonprofits are looking for people with sound business judgment and the ability to lead projects,” he said. “They need all hands on deck. Your skills, and what you can bring to a company, shine through when you talk about all of your experiences.”
“Drawing upon earlier experiences in your career is important,” he said. “Classifying yourself as your last role is short-changing all that you have done. You need to put everything out there that you can bring to a potential employer, and extend what you are open to talking about.
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Mark Alcaide worked for a national financial-services company in Boston for nearly a decade. When he was laid off last September, he immediately began to search for a job that resembled the one he had at a company that had laid him off. But he ran smack into the worst job market the finance industry had seen since the Great Depression.
“My first reaction was to reach out to all the networks that I knew in the financial services industry,” he said. “(But) when I looked more strategically at what I wanted to do, I realized the financial-services world is hurting. I had a senior executive role, and getting another one quickly was going to be challenging.”
Alcaide reached out to Keystone Associates, a career-management firm, that helped him realize he had options other than finance and jobs he had never considered.
About 90 percent of the clients Keystone works with are like Alcaide — trying to replace the job they had, said Cheri Paulson, senior vice president of Keystone Associates.
“For many of these people, financial services is the only career they’ve known,” she said. “So I tell them to do an assessment and look at all the options. I want them to look at how their expertise can transition to another industry. It’s a matter of moving your skills around.”
In Alcaide’s case, Keystone’s methods convinced him to promote experience and skills he had considered irrelevant to his career.
“I was reminded of all of the experience I had in the not-for-profit sector: I am a trustee for two charities and had worked in the charitable arm of the firm.” Both positions were on his resume, but he never drew attention to them or incorporated them into his career discussion.
Alcaide included the trustee positions and began to talk about the financial oversight he was responsible for in his last role, and before long he was in the running to be the CFO of a large global health-care foundation based in Boston.
He never held the title “CFO” in his career, but his resume made it clear he had the responsibility and the experience. “Nonprofits are looking for people with sound business judgment and the ability to lead projects,” he said. “They need all hands on deck. Your skills, and what you can bring to a company, shine through when you talk about all of your experiences.”
“Drawing upon earlier experiences in your career is important,” he said. “Classifying yourself as your last role is short-changing all that you have done. You need to put everything out there that you can bring to a potential employer, and extend what you are open to talking about.
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