50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms - Softcover

Aujla, Dev

 
9780143131533: 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0143131532 ISBN 13: 9780143131533
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

A new personalized way to find the perfect job—while staying calm during the process.
 
You are so much more than a resume or job application, but how can you communicate that to your potential employer? You need to learn to ask the right questions, stop using job sites, and start doing the work that actually counts.
 
Based on information gained from over 400,000 individuals who have used these exercises, this book reveals career expert Dev Aujla’s tried-and-tested method for job seekers at every stage of their career. Filled with anecdotes and advice from professionals ranging from a wilderness guide to an architect, it includes quick-step exercises that help you avoid the common pitfalls of navigating a modern career.

Whether you've just decided to start the hunt or you're gearing up for a big interview, 50 Ways to Get a Job will keep you poised, on-track, and motivated right up to landing your dream career.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dev Aujla is the CEO of Catalog, a recruiting and insight firm that has provided talent and high level strategy to some of the worlds most innovative companies including from BMW, GOOD Magazine, Change.org, and Planned Parenthood. He speaks regularly and blogs for outlets that include INC Magazine and Fast Company. His writing and work have been featured in dozens of media outlets including the New York Times, Glamour Magazine, MSNBC, CBC and The Globe and Mail.

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MAP YOUR CURRENT  CAREER PATH

YOU ARE ALREADY IN THE MIDDLE of your career. Even if you have never had a job before, you have learned, had experiences, made choices, expressed interests, and here you are deciding where to go next.        To truly understand this requires you to spend time looking backward to map how you ended up here. A beginning can often feel like a cold start with zero momentum. It can be overwhelming, and in a state of panic you may end up on job boards—the last place you should begin (167). You deserve a better beginning that honors your path so far, that is informed by your past and builds on what you have learned.        Mapping your career path to date will help you identify trends, patterns of feelings, and reasons for transitioning out of and into work, insights that will inform your path through this book.        In his bestselling 1980s career book Transitions, William Bridges breaks down the stages of a transition. There is an end, a period of in-between, and a beginning. Each stage is essential yet rarely considered in a distinct way. As you review your map, pay attention to your moments of transition and pause to consider how you navigated each stage in those moments.        What were you ending? What were you beginning? What did you have to let go of in yourself at these times? What beliefs did you have to change and what external changes followed? Do your transitions always follow a place-based change, or do they follow a change in belief? What did you think you were going to gain in the next stage? What ended up happening?        The arc of your career is part of a broader story.        Let’s zoom back out, and as you review your map take note of broader patterns, industries, themes, and clues that could inform your next step. Ask yourself: What do you want to repeat? Do differently? Learn from? What industries or potential jobs emerge that may have been hiding in your peripheral vision? Right before you got your last job what did you feel? Did you listen to your gut, or did you force yourself to change? What are you moving toward? What are you escaping?

THE EXERCISE

Begin mapping your career by following these steps:     1. Make a list of fifteen different milestones, relationships, people, jobs, or experiences that brought you to where you are today.

2. Create a map with your milestones. Connect them chronologically, noting the impact each had on your state of mind at the time. Draw your map on a whiteboard or a large piece of paper.

3. Pick two random points and try to add five more milestones, people, or experiences—no matter how small—that got you from one step to the next. Repeat as necessary to fill in gaps in your map.

4. Choose a different pen color and note your emotions throughout the map. How did you feel before and after you got your last job? When did you last feel overwhelmed or totally satisfied?

WHAT’S NEXT?

Go on a solo trip and spend time in reflection (40)

Find a friend in a similar situation and share your career map (6)

Make your own finish line and mark an ending (139)

Make a list of what you want to learn next (72)

FIND A FRIEND  IN THE SAME SITUATION

THIS IS A JOURNEY that is best done together. Having a partner will help you solidify what you’ve learned along the way, reflect back the boring moments, and open you to a whole other experience of navigating the next steps in your path.        Find someone in the same situation as you. Whether you have both outgrown your current job or you share the same job title, make sure your shared context is the same. The ideal partner could be someone you work with, an old friend you haven’t connected with in a while, or a new one you met at an event (122). This person doesn’t need to be a best friend. It can be someone on the periphery, someone you’ve unexpectedly opened up to about your career and you want to get to know. Feel free to stretch yourself to find someone new; buy them this book or send them to the website.        Do it together.        The benefits of starting this transition alongside someone who is also going through it are innumerable. This friend will hold you accountable, give you momentum, and help you overcome that initial inertia needed to make a change. The things that we want most can be the hardest to do. Your partner for this journey will be a pressure valve—someone who can listen if you need to vent anxieties or share what you’ve learned, someone to help you fend off disappointment and celebrate victories.        You will take different paths through the book. No matter how similar your situations, you will each build your own way and outgrow this guide at different times, finding your own answers and developing your own methods. By working together, you benefit from double the conversations, double the insights, and double the network.        Get together once a week. Notice as you work through the book which exercises you have an aversion to or feel will be hard to do. Talk about those together and commit to doing one each. Pay attention to the voice in your head saying “I don’t need to do that.” These are the exercises you should discuss and decide to tackle with each other’s support.

THE EXERCISE

1. Choose someone who is in the same situation as you.

2. Commit to a weekly meeting for six weeks.

3. Make a commitment to each other to do a number of exercises in the book, taking particular note to discuss the ones you innately want to skip over.

4. During each meeting, share any advice you received and review the people you met that week. Go over the exercises you both completed and compare notes.

WHAT’S NEXT?



Send a “looking for a job” e-mail to five close friends (143)

Practice different ways of introducing yourself (126)

Make a list of twenty people whose careers you admire (99)

SCHEDULE A  VACATION BUFFER

WHEN WE HAVE BEEN WORKING in one way for years and we decide to change what we do each day, our old way of living re-creates itself unless we are aware of this pattern. Our brains and our bodies have been taught to move and operate in a specific way, and our natural inclination is not to disrupt it.        When looking at a lineup of Olympic athletes, we can see their different areas of expertise through the shape of their bodies sculpted by their hours of training and practice. Our work and daily routines similarly give shape to our minds. We naturally want to continue moving in the same way we have been. If our jobs are stressful, this could result in a default tendency to re-create this same stress.        If we want something different, we need to begin to move a different way. This shift can feel uncomfortable at first. A vacation buffer is an active acknowledgment that a transition is happening. The exercise has one essential component and it is of particular importance for those who have been in their careers a long time, the seasoned athletes of their field: take a break.        Begin by acknowledging that it won’t always feel comfortable to completely change your everyday way of being. If you structure your days in your work life, try to take a vacation with unstructured time. Stretch yourself and feel the shift. Keep yourself out of the office long enough that you settle into a new rhythm.        This rhythm isn’t the permanent rhythm for your life (alas, it doesn’t...

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Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0143131532
ISBN 13 
9780143131533
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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