How to Overcome the 2 Biggest Challenges – For Junior Candidates

Junior professionals are always going to be less experienced than seniors, but that doesn’t mean they will be less attractive to hire. In many case, employers may prefer to hire a junior candidate. For example, Juniors are often perceived as offering more flexibility and more value for money than their senior counterparts.

1. What is your point of difference? If your skills abilities are considered to be equal to a local, the local will always have the advantage. Foreign job seekers need to be significantly better than local local job applicants in order to be offered work.
2. Are you displacing locals? – Immigration officers have a job to do, and part of that job is to ensure that foreign job seekers are not taking jobs away from local candidates. If they are unsure, they may ask the local hiring employer to prove that every consideration was first given to locals.

For the above two challenges, there are two strategies. 

Your point of difference is about knowing your core skills and positioning your proven abilities as a point of difference with “rising star” potential. If you have a couple of remarkable successes in your young career, this is what I am talking about. Adding your enthusiasm and passion to succeed also helps a great deal. And if you have all those features combined, add also the quality of persistence to ensure maximum chances for success because it may take meeting 10 or 20 or more employers before success is achieved. Persistence eventually finds success, depending on many factors that I can help you navigate in a separate discussion.

Displacing locals will be a minimised problem if you have clearly communicated your “point of difference”. When your employer knows that your core strength is the best among other applicants and if that is also critical to the success of the role, then your employer will be able to better manage any requests for proof from immigration authorities. Obviously, looking for work abroad, discovering and communicating your core strengths is at the heart of getting job offers.

In Summary

If you are a junior professional with a short but successful career, then you might be able to position yourself as a “rising star” candidates that foreign employers love to hire.

If you would like a detailed strategy that fits your profile and your goals, just send your CV and questions to me. I will give you a personalised response in about a day.