Job search in another city: what to consider and how to organize. Work in a small town: is it really possible to find a good option

It does not matter for what reasons you decided to move to another city - in search of a better life or so the circumstances developed, first you need to take care of the financial side of the issue, namely, on what means you will live in a completely new and unusual place. Of course, you can solve problems as they come and look for work when you put the last things on the shelves, but it’s better to lay down straws in advance and come to where a warm workplace awaits you.

Look for a job in hometown much easier - ask around friends, read ads in local newspapers, send or take your resume personally, and then wait for an interview. Finding a job in another city is a little more difficult, but even the distance cannot prevent you from finding your ideal office with the best colleagues and the perfect boss.

We do it smart

Searching for a job in another city can be divided into several main stages, which, in general, are similar to the usual “announcement-resume-interview”, but with some reservations.

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1. Study the job market the place where you are moving. Of course, you can send a resume to the first ad that is more or less suitable for you, but it’s better to know which companies have really proven themselves, and which ones are a sharashka office.

2. Carefully review the ads. Most likely, large Internet resources with thousands of vacancies will suit you, although it will be useful to visit city sites, which, as a rule, also have a “Jobs” section. By the way, do not forget to join special groups on social networks, you can also find something interesting there.

3. Connect friends. If you already know people in the city where you are moving to who you can turn to for help in finding a job, then do not miss this opportunity. Just tell the person that you will be very grateful to him if he informs you about any vacancy that has appeared. For demand, as they say, money is not taken.

4. Submit your resume. When suitable vacancies are found, it's time to send your resume to potential employers. Be sure to indicate in it that you are ready to move. Some companies provide housing for non-resident employees, if this is your case and if you need it, then also note this on your resume.

A potential employer should not hear phrases like “well, I don’t know how it will turn out.”

5. Online interview. If the employer responded to your resume and offers to meet in person, check if it is possible to conduct the first interview via Skype. For many recruiters, this way of interviewing applicants is not new. Be prepared to be asked about the timing of a possible move, and do not hesitate to answer the question. A potential employer should not hear phrases like “well, I don’t know how it will turn out.” Uncertainty will only scare him away, and you most likely will not get a job. By the way, it would be useful to indicate the reasons for the move, of course, if they are not very personal.

6. Reconnaissance in force. If a webcam interview is not enough for you or your employer, then take a short break from your current job and go on a “reconnaissance” meeting in person with a company representative, look around the office, talk to employees. Perhaps the picture on the computer monitor seemed much better than it really is.

What not to be afraid of

1. Uncertainties. Of course, now you are afraid of everything new, but six months will pass, and the new will become painfully familiar and familiar. Therefore, do not wind yourself up in advance, the main thing is perseverance and the desire to move forward. And then you will definitely succeed.

2. Demotions. It is likely that in another city you will have to start in a lower position than you previously held. Do not think that this "downgrade" undermines your self-esteem, especially if you have moved to a metropolis. Set yourself up in advance that you will have to start all over again and this is not a cause for concern.

3. New team. In the first weeks, it will seem to you that you are not at ease - another city, other people, and new colleagues are especially hostile towards you, you are a “stranger”. But this is a game of the imagination, nothing more. You did not come from another planet, you speak the same language and want to achieve common corporate goals together. So relax - now you are not in the camp of the enemy, but just in a new job.

When moving to another city, try not to change your usual field of activity, so as not to aggravate the stressful state in which you will definitely be at first. A new place, new people - all this is already enough to make you feel uncomfortable. Do not torture yourself with the fact that you suddenly have to do something completely unusual for yourself. Let at least something stay the same.

Looking for a job in another city can be caused by various reasons. Someone is trying to find a job in connection with the forced relocation, and someone specially leaves to build a career. In any case, the question arises before the applicant - what is important to know for employment and how to successfully pass an interview among many competitors?

We determine the timing

Employment for non-residents causes quite a few problems for which you need to be carefully prepared. Therefore, it is necessary to start the search even before moving - monitor the offers of employers and send your resume to the companies of interest.

“Technology today allows you to conduct an initial interview with a job seeker via Skype, so you need to be puzzled by looking for a job shortly before moving,” says recruitment specialist Oksana Ismailova. – A typical mistake of applicants in this case is a vague indication of the timing of the move. If the resume does not indicate a specific date when you can start working, then the likelihood of being rejected increases dramatically. If you really cannot name the date of the move with absolute certainty, but you need to take care of being able to come to the face-to-face interview. The employer should see a potential employee as a responsible person who knows how to clearly plan his time.

When compiling a resume, take care to indicate the most accurate date of readiness to start work. Phrases like “I plan to move in the next six months” will not leave you any chance to get a job in a serious company.

Some job seekers prefer not to think about looking for a job until the actual move, hoping to find a job immediately after arriving in the city. This is one of the main mistakes. Firstly, the first month housing issues will take up a lot of time, and secondly, unforeseen difficulties may arise in the requirements of employers. And thirdly, do not forget that if you move to Big City, and even more so in the capital, you will face very high competition.

“It is rare that out-of-town job seekers manage to find a job without a preliminary search within the first month,” says Oksana Ismailova. – Sometimes there is no time left for monitoring the market, quite often there are difficulties with registration. Large companies are wary of candidates without registration, so this question should also be considered in advance. I strongly do not advise buying a fake registration - in a serious company it is very easy to figure it out, and your life in a new city will end there.

Studying the labor market

An equally important issue that you need to be prepared for is supply and demand in the market in a foreign city. Very often, the same industries in different cities have their own specific features and all your past experience work received in your region may be simply useless.

“Even just by going on business trips, it is easy to see that the service market in different regions has many differences,” says Marketing Department Specialist Sergey Ashmarin. – Some of my colleagues left for the capital and returned back after a few months because their experience did not meet the requirements of the company, although here they were excellent specialists. Therefore, the peculiarities of the market must be studied long before the move. Moreover, if possible, it should be not only theoretical knowledge, but also practical. It is necessary to establish the necessary business connections and constantly exchange information. good option there will be professional trainings focused on the specifics of the region.”

The information indicated by the applicant in the resume will not be convincing if there are no references from previous jobs. When applying for a job in another city, this item is especially important, so make sure that the current employer writes a letter of recommendation for you with positive reviews.

“When considering candidates from other cities, the employer will pay attention, first of all, to achievements in the professional field,” says Oksana Ismailova. – Therefore, the winners will be those candidates who provide a letter of recommendation from past jobs. It is also important when filling out a resume to focus on professional achievements and numerical indicators, and not just list previous jobs. Specify in detail everything that you could achieve, what you did for the company, how much you increased production or sales, whether you participated in business negotiations which partners were able to attract.

If you have previously worked in companies that are leaders in your region, then this should also be noted. But to list those places where you worked for several months and achieved nothing is not worth it. A potential employer is unlikely to be happy with an employee who could not prove himself even in his city.

After compiling a resume, you need to send it to those search channels that are most popular in the city where the move is planned.

How to get a pre-interview

The first interview with non-resident candidates is most often conducted via video link. However, this does not mean that it can be taken lightly. A video interview requires just as much preparation as a face-to-face meeting, so make sure you dress appropriately and think carefully about your speech.

“There is no need to talk to a potential employer in a dressing gown and with an untidy look, even if this conversation is conducted via Skype,” says Oksana Ismailova. - It is from the first interview, regardless of whether it is face-to-face or conducted in video format, that one gets the impression of a potential employee, which will be quite difficult to change. Therefore, you need to take care of your appearance, as well as about the environment that the interlocutor will see. Try to give the impression of a responsible and businesslike person. Also, be prepared for questions about your arrival time and your ability to visit the city in the next few days. The applicant must understand that by hiring a person from another city, the employer also bears considerable risks. Therefore, if you cannot clearly determine the time frame in which you are ready to start work, then the chance of employment is almost zero.

To summarize: finding a job in another city is associated with considerable difficulties. Therefore, it is necessary to start studying the labor market long before the expected move. It is especially important to pay attention to the specific features of your industry in a foreign region, to correctly compose a resume listing all your achievements, prepare a letter of recommendation and indicate the time frame in which you can start working. If these recommendations are followed, the candidate has every chance not only to be as prepared for the interview as possible, but also to choose a company that meets his expectations.

There are many reasons for moving. Someone is in active search a better life, but someone is forced by circumstances. Whatever you are guided by, it is advisable to find a job in a foreign city even before moving, so that upon arrival at a new place you do not think about what you will live on.

We are looking for in advance

As soon as you move in, you will be settling into new apartment, register at the place of residence. And there is practically no time to look for a job (especially in the first month), so study the labor market of the place where you are going to live and work in advance.

Get ready for innovation

In megacities there are vacancies for any specialty, which cannot be said about small cities. There are fewer employers in the province, and there are enough people who want to get the job of their dreams.
Passing special courses, getting a second higher education for promotion, retraining - all these innovations will have to get used to if the need arises.

Summary

A well-written resume is half the battle. In the line "City of residence" indicate the place of residence. Add information that you are ready to move to such and such a city if you plan to move to a specific city. If you don’t care where you live, just write that you are ready to move to any city. In the second case, the list of potential employers will be larger.
Add more information about whether you are ready to look for housing yourself or you definitely need work with the provision of finished real estate.

Job search

Special portals, newspapers, recruitment agencies will come to the rescue. Talk to friends, relatives. It is easier to find the desired place with the recommendation.
If you are registered on social networks, join special groups that will help you find a job.
Almost all companies have their own website. Check out the Jobs section.

Moving time

At any time, the employer can call and ask about the timing of arrival at a new place of residence. If you answer vaguely, for example, “I plan to move before the end of the summer” or “I can’t say for sure yet,” then the employer can automatically cross you off the list of candidates for the position. If you decide to move, set at least for yourself an approximate date of arrival in a new place.

Interview

With non-resident employers, the first interview is often conducted via Skype. Get Ready: Write short story about yourself and your accomplishments. business style clothes, neat appearance increase the chances of success.
Do not tell the employer about your problems (about the difficulties of moving, about financial problems) and do not demand any concessions.
If you will be at home during the interview, ask your family not to flash on background. The video zone should be in order.

A personal meeting

If you don't like the Skype interview, take the day off work and go to a direct meeting with the employer. You will be able to assess the situation on site with your own eyes, talk to the staff and meet with the management in person. Only after such a meeting you will understand exactly whether you need this place or not.

Set up for success

Do not be afraid of change, believe in your success. After all, the right attitude determines the outcome of a conceived idea. If in doubt, distract yourself for a couple of hours with something pleasant: go to the cinema, bake a cake, take a walk around the city, and then boldly conquer new peaks.

What not to be afraid of

1. suspense. At first, at any job, it is unusual and difficult. After 3-4 months, everything will fall into place, and the difficulties will disappear.
2. New position. If you are the director of a company in your city, then in a new place they are unlikely to immediately offer a similar position. You will most likely have to start all over from the beginning. This should not hurt your self-esteem in any way. This is how it all starts in big cities.
3. New team. If you are a sociable person, then you will quickly get used to a new place. At first, it may seem that colleagues are hostile and dislike you. It will pass. Show your work attitude. A hardworking and punctual worker will be appreciated immediately.

Try to find a job in a familiar field. In a foreign city, there is already enough stress: a new team, new job. And if the case is unusual, then it will be doubly difficult.

Without going into the depth of the study of the causes of labor migration of Russians, we will try to develop an algorithm for the popular in Lately enterprises.

1. We start by preparing ourselves for change (we define ourselves more precisely with the choice upcoming activities, the availability or possibilities of acquiring housing, a living wage).
2. We collect information about the selected area (how much does housing, food, etc. cost, how much your abilities and experience in this region are in demand and paid). It makes sense to expand the search geographically. Potential employers should also be studied for reliability (there are a lot of one-day offices that appear for different purposes).
3. Compiling a resume:

• indicating the city of residence, it is advised to name the area where you are now with a note "Ready" in the relevant section on moving. All cities where relocation is possible should also be indicated, although this reduces the integrity of the resume. Employer more interesting people, aimed at a specific place of residence and place of work. They assure that Moscow employers quickly respond to the proposals of Muscovites and do not consider profiles from other cities. But, indicating the place of residence in Moscow and your phone number with your native city code, you can get into an awkward position and cause bewilderment of the recruiter; such caught slyness is highly undesirable;
• V "Additional information" we inform about the absence of problems with housing and registration at the future place of residence or about the need for housing, about finding a job with accommodation. Your organization will be demonstrated by information about the exact date of the move and readiness to go to work, as well as the reasons for changing the place of residence;
• V "Wishing for work" specify the type of activity ( , for example).

1. The questionnaire was put up in all possible search engines, we are waiting for responses and invitations, but we ourselves look at the vacancies of large sites and local, urban ones, we respond to them.
2. Many search sites in response to a job offer include a cover letter. Here we firmly write about the desire to work only in this city, at this particular enterprise, to apply our abilities in this workplace, since the work is familiar, there is relevant experience and achievements (indicate what was achieved) in the former company engaged in this and that -something and well-known merits in their field.

In the letter, we express our readiness to appear for an interview in person or to hold a Skype meeting. We try to help the employer to form an opinion about us, to make a positive decision.

1. Preparing for the first interview:

• If Skype is used, we check the condition of the equipment, the quality of the connection, by the agreed moment of connection, we take care of presenting ourselves in a favorable light (literally, about the lighting in the room), appearance, and interior.
• For us, applicants, the employer should not have unresolved issues of the possibility of a personal meeting, we are ready to appear anywhere and anytime for an interview and go to work when required; we have no problems with housing and registration (or we rely on all this, and the company assumes this).
• We do not hide our plans for the future and the motives for moving.
• We are preparing questions for the personnel officer that are really important, not turning into a huge package of requests.
• Having studied the information about the company, we formulate the answer to the personnel officer to the assumptions about your personal usefulness in it. And the answer to the question about the timing of going to work should be specific, with accurate information - how much time (days, not months) it will take to move or solve some urgent problems.

1. Participation in professional groups in social networks, conferences, forums will help a lot in finding a job. You can become a freelancer in your activities, try yourself in something new, and then get an assessment of your work, a letter of recommendation, finally. The presence of new acquaintances-colleagues from different cities will not be superfluous either, professionally influential people can be among them. It is necessary to use the already existing acquaintances and connections.

Perhaps, having accepted the offer, you will be faced with the fact that you were offered a position of less status and less paid than promised, and lower than the one you previously held. Be ready to build your authority anew, you should not have complexes about this “humiliation”.

A resident of the outback is afraid to suddenly find himself in the midst of everything new, alien, hostile. But this is our planet, our country, our language. Over time, everything will become familiar, dear.

You have joined a company that is engaged in a business familiar to you, focus on the fullest possible, accurate performance of your duties, delve into the “foreign” charter, try to follow it. And let the whole world wait until you adapt and, without going into the kitchen of the new society, declare yourself as a good specialist, colleague, comrade.

Out-of-town candidates cause recruiters fear that the funds and time allocated for them will turn out to be wasted - the newcomer will not justify himself, he will turn out to be incompetent, unnecessarily demanding, he will remain a stranger.

And at the same time, a new employee who has undertaken the move is forced to come in handy. It was he who spent his, perhaps, the last funds on a change in fate. And he will try to change himself into better side, which will help the HR not to worry about (what if!) an unsuccessful acquisition of the company.

Non-Russians should be prepared for a deeper examination of the questionnaire. Applicants from other countries should inquire in advance how their employment is legally carried out, what are the rights and obligations of the company when hiring, providing any conditions to foreign citizens, for this you need to go to the Russian official website of the FMS.

But these difficulties should not scare away, make you stop in search of a good job. Labor market websites offer their help through the system feedback. They will answer questions, select vacancies, optimize your resume, and advise you on how best to “get through” to the most suitable employer.

Studies conducted recently by experts have shown that the labor market in Russia has recently been characterized by an increase in the mobility of personnel. Human resource management experts say that today people are much easier to move to another city due to job change. However, among applicants there is a large percentage of those who cannot decide to take such a step. Working in another city scares the overwhelming majority of the population.

In addition, experts say that in our time, workers who are not averse to moving to another city do not limit their choice only to Moscow and St. Petersburg. The central regions of Russia and, surprisingly, Siberia are becoming increasingly popular. This is due to the fact that a huge percentage of production facilities being commissioned are located far from large cities with a population of more than 1 million. we are talking about newly built technoparks, as well as special economic zones.

Of course, on this moment we can only talk about positive dynamics in the mobility of personnel. The Russian worker still has a long way to go before he becomes as mobile as the American one. US residents tend to change their place of residence if they are offered a more promising job in another region of the country. Naturally, the geographical conditions in the United States are more favorable for personnel to be mobile. In Russia, the so-called centralization is very pronounced. In addition, Russians are very attached to permanent place legal residence. Any move invariably entails a lot of problems with the re-registration of documents. Moreover, Russians have many additional factors that make them not as mobile as US residents.

There is a stereotype in our country that work in another city- a real undertaking only for young professionals. It is they who do not yet have a family, children and debt obligations. The overwhelming majority of specialists over 30 years of age have a negative attitude towards the prospect of moving to another city in order to continue their career. And there are many good reasons for this decision.

The main factor that holds people back is the family. Relatives rarely support a person in his desire to change his place of residence. Most often, wives show disagreement, since most of the qualified specialists and managers are men. main reason, which restrains the worker from moving, is the fear that he will not be able to create decent social and living conditions for his children. The lack of schools and kindergartens in the immediate vicinity of home and work scares a person. Because of this, many careerists choose to move on their own, while leaving their wife and children in their hometown. This decision is explained by the desire to provide for the family financially, but the realities of life indicate that such a step often leads to divorce. Few married couples able to maintain integrity during a long separation. For most, scandals and loss of mutual trust are the rule rather than the exception.

Fear of the unknown can also be a major barrier to moving to another city. Even in the case when the applicant has already received an invitation to work, he may doubt whether he will really be comfortable in a new place. There are a lot of questions related to the search for housing, the convenience of living in a foreign city and work in a new team. Moreover, many doubt their abilities and worry that nothing will come of them. A huge percentage of specialists are afraid that they will have to return to their city as a loser.

The most convenient way to get rid of doubts is a personal visit to the office of the company where the applicant will work. Here you can evaluate the team, get to know the city better, and also understand what exactly you have to do at a new place of work. However, not everyone can afford such a trip, which is why many employees have to rely on the honesty of the employer.

To the delight of job seekers in our time, many companies that are interested in specific specialists help their newly minted employees to move and settle in a new city. Western employers are ready to compensate for the costs associated with the move in whole or in part, as well as help with rental housing. However, this order can hardly be called a trend. For this reason, employees of recruiting companies are increasingly convincing their clients to motivate valuable employees in every possible way for their relocation.

Unfortunately, fear of the difficulties associated with moving is far from the only reason why workers do not want to change their place of residence. Many refuse move to another city to work because they don't want to make some changes in their lives. And in most cases, this is the main reason for the refusal. Many Russians prefer dreary stability over new opportunities that require some effort to realize. Lack of initiative and laziness are the main barrier for an employee who could achieve success in another city. Eg, jobs energy in Irkutsk may be ignored by a good specialist who lives in Rostov-on-Don and occupies a mediocre low-paid position.

Moving to another city for work is a very difficult issue. Initially, it is not easy to assess which choice will be the most correct. However, if you have in mind for a long time the idea of ​​​​moving to another city to work is spinning, then it may make sense to take a step towards success.

If you still decide to change, then it is worth remembering:

If you are interested work in another city - vacancies it is worth browsing only for the region that attracts you, and you should not be afraid of change, especially if the prospects for you in a new job are more than clear.

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