Avoiding Desperation and Making a Career Change with Purpose
Jun 10, 2024
Learn how to avoid desperation in your job search and make intentional career decisions. Hear Cheri's journey from a miserable job to finding her ideal career. Discover strategies for recognizing negative job impacts and tips for finding fulfilling roles.
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Cheri's Career Journey
Cheri, initially a software developer, transitioned to business analysis due to her preference for social interaction.
After a job change due to relocation, she found herself in a mismatched role, prompting a new job search within a month.
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Learning Curve vs. Mismatch
While a learning curve is normal in new jobs, Cheri's issues stemmed from mismatched aspects of the role itself, not just unfamiliarity.
This highlights the distinction between initial challenges and fundamental misalignment.
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Targeted Job Applications
Tailor your resume to each job application, emphasizing keywords from the job description.
Focus your applications on roles aligning with your career goals, not just any available position.
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When your job begins negatively affecting other aspects of your life—your family, your health, your self-worth—those are usually red flags signaling you to make a career change. But then comes a huge dilemma we see all the time — in desperation to escape your current situation, you jump into a new role that's just as bad as the one before.
So, how do you avoid desperation in your job search and find a new role that adds to your life instead of draining it?
That's where Cheri found herself. You’ll hear how she went from trying to get out of a job that was making her miserable, to being so sure about what she wanted as the next step of her career that she turned down roles that seemed great but didn’t align with her ideal career… until she found it!
What you’ll learn
How to recognize when a job is negatively impacting your life.
Strategies for making thoughtful and intentional career decisions.
Tips for avoiding desperation in your job search.
*Don’t miss - Cheri and Scott discussing how to find organizations that you actually want to work for in episode 570.
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