Okay I'm 28 and I currently work as an accounting clerk for a medical billing company in Northern New Jersey. I'm near New York City by the way. Anyways, I have been working for this company for a little over three and half years now. I originally was their mail clerk where I pretty much put insurance claims into envelopes, stamped them and dropped them off at the local post office.
After a year, I asked for a promotion and I was granted it as I was given a position in data collections where I would try to find workers' comp and no fault injury reports in a couple of EMR systems and scan them into our system for various patients of clients of ours. I would also sometimes call patients looking for workers' comp and no-fault insurance information.
About ten months ago, I was promoted to an accounting clerk position where I basically would tally up checks we got in the mail each and every working day for clients in excel sheets. I would then scan the checks and EOBs in our system, so payments could be posted and then I would deposit checks for some clients in a chase scanners and other checks for other clients I would take to a local chase branch. I earn about $16.50 an hour currently and I'm thinking about getting a new job. I'm not sure where to look though.
I'm trying to get a job with more growth. As for an overall idea of what I want to do, I'm honestly not sure but I just want a job with more growth at the moment. There has been growth at my present job but I don't think there is enough left to expand upon. I have been thinking about getting a headhunter? Does anyone here have experience with a headhunter? By the way, I was an English Major with a writing concentration, so my accounting position is a bit away from what I studied. I'm also a public notary if that helps.
Tell your boss.
You do good work for a reasonable wage. You have improved over time, and have executed well in several different roles.
As someone who has employed a lot of people in my life, you are my dream employee so far!
If you came to me and said you were looking for more challenge, more growth, more something, I would have a very good idea of what you are good at, and the kind of thing that could make you really a strong performer at this company.
And that's my job, as a manager. Happy employees who enjoy their work are the kinds of people that other people want to work with. So if I make you happy, and you produce even better work, not just you and I win... the whole company does.
Listen. Your boss has a LOT more experience in the industry than you do. They know if jobs and roles that you have never heard of before. You are 28. Talk to your boss and tell them you want to grow in the company, but you aren't sure what to target / what to learn / who to talk to / what fits your personality and skills.
And you and your boss's relationship will be even better for it.
Note: A headhunter doesn't care about you. You don't make enough money, and you have no power or influence or network. So you are basically useless to a headhunter, who works with people who CHANGE the companies they go to. Because headhunters get a finders fee between 50% and 100% of your annual salary. That means that they need to find someone who thinks you are so valuable that the company is going to pay DOUBLE your salary just to hire you. And honestly, at this point in your career, you just don't have that kind of value to anyone. Sorry. It's just numbers.