How to choose your next job - with Misha Rubin of Career Leap

Feb 15, 2022

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#124 - Career Leap founder Misha Rubin explains how mapping out your values and strengths can help you identify the criteria that your next role needs to fulfill.

What you'll learn

[01:35] Misha discusses his career background and how and why he created The Career Leap Method.
[05:16] Misha talks about his involvement in music and how it helps fulfill him.
[07:12] The two common traps to avoid when job searching.
[09:42] How to manage your career by curating the opportunities which present themselves.
[12:57] Why you should focus on your unique career criteria before looking at salary.
[14:30] The four aspects of your unique career criteria: values, strengths, motivations and interpersonal profile.
[19:31] How the four aspects align and why you should look out for any conflict.
[20:44] Creating a comprehensive career leap map that includes ideas of what your next step might be.
[23:51] The research you can carry out to explore the different directions you can go in.
[25:18] How to filter down your options and identify what is calling you.
[27:19] Why it’s worth waiting until the end of the exercise before looking at the compromises you might need to make.
[30:34] Figuring out your direction and taking a series of small steps towards it.
[31:40] How often you should review and edit your career leap map.
[33:10] How you can take the first steps in exploring a change in your career.

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