How Does Your Background Help You Find Your Next Role?

My background and attendee’s background - In this case, it was IT

• What is your background and what kind of job do you want to do?

1. Thinking about roles like Product Manager in IT, or experience with specific platforms. Example is opentext https://www.opentext.com/what-we-do/products/enterprise-content-management/content-management/opentext-content-suite-platform
2. Think about common points with your future job
3. Same industry as you worked in? You understand the business background.
4. Same role or working with the same stakeholders? (marketing, etc)
5. Understanding of connection between IT and the business goals and being able to explain it in interviews, and the results that it contributes to. This can be applied to the next job, whatever the underlying platform or technology is.