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The balance between personal and professional effectiveness
Proactivity versus reactivity
The importance of defining your path in life
Finding Job Opportunities That Match Your Needs And Goals
Consider the six categories below:
- Environment: What kinds of environments, management styles, and ways of working do you thrive in?
- Role: What kind of roles and prospects for growth are you looking for?
- Compensation: What’s the minimum compensation you will accept and what’s your ideal range?
- Skills Acquisition: What skills and competencies does your resume currently demonstrate?
- Career Narrative: How does your resume position you in the hiring market?
- On the Horizon: Is there a meaningful and realistic step you can take within the next 18 months based on your answers?
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Searching For A Job: Avoiders or Gatherers
- Overwhelmed by feelings of fear or confusion, avoiders often shut down entirely: “I don’t know where to start so I’m going to do nothing.”
- Gatherers, on the other hand, respond to those same emotions with feverish action:
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The Opportunities Prioritization Matrix
The matrix has four quadrants of priority:
- Focus Here: Opportunities in this quadrant are your “dream jobs.” They meet the two most important criteria you have identified so you should invest the most time pursuing these.
- Waste of Time: Opportu...
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The Career and Personal Manifesto
The manifesto includes three steps:
- Evaluate: find job opportunities that match your needs and goals.
- Engage: take action and start reaching out to people in your network.
- Execute: work with the contacts you have made ...
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Reach Out to People In Your Network
Discussions are a natural part of the job-hunting process, but you want to segment the people you engage with into two categories:
- Thought Partners: People who can weigh in on your thinking and path forward (mentors, alumni networks, former managers and colleagues, etc...
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