Settling Heres How To Find Your Dream Job

Settling Heres How To Find Your Dream JobSettling Heres How To Find Your Dream JobJob search is not just job search. While of course, the immediate, foremost goal is to land your next job, the larger goal is to advance your career and improve your life.How do you accomplish any of that if youre not certain of what you want to do? Without being certain, you cant articulate your goal to anyone in a position to help you. Worse yet, with lack of certainty comes a long, convoluted search that may very likely end with a mediocre role that just has you punching a time clock and going through the motions from 9-5.Lets walk through the 3 steps to finding your dream job, especially when you offer a wealth of experience and a broad scope of expertise.Know ThyselfEven though your expertise may be widely-encompassing, the truth is theres a difference between knowing a lot of things, having done a lot of things, being good at a lot of things, and actually liking or wanting to do a lot of things.Wh at do you want to do? Not what can you do. Not what have people told you youre good at doing. What do you want to do? Dont be afraid to answer that question for yourself. Your answer is acceptable. Your wants do matter. Youre the one who has to work all day the work you do needs to please you.Be InspiredA candidate recently told me, Well, I know a lot more than most people who do what I do when it comes to regulatory affairs in the pharmaceuticals environment. Excellent that means you have a lot to choose from. That also means you have to make a choice.Theres no such concept of dumping your entire wealth of knowledge onto your resume, the thinking the employer will go through it and fit you into the most appropriate placement.Instead, what happens when you present nearly the totality of what you know is you get labeled as overqualified, which is not a compliment. It will hinder you from landing interviews and offers.From your wealth of knowledge, make a choice to focus on what in spires you. What part of the work do you like the best? What part do you do the best? You likely do it consistently well because you enjoy being able to make some kind of contribution through your work. You enjoy spending all day at something that satisfies you. Concentrate on that as your primary message, the core of your brand.Emphasize Expertise You EnjoyWhen I work privately with candidates, we spend a significant amount of time evaluating their expertise. In looking at their old materials, the 1st thing I ask is, What can we get rid of, for any reason, including that you may know how to do it, or have done it for a long time, but you just dont want to do it anymore?Then. We. Cut.But wait, Jewel. Doesnt that mean I may be cutting our certain opportunities if I dont show that I have that expertise?Yesbut you dont want to do those things anyway. Therefore, whats the point of even bringing them to the table. If you did them all day every day for the next 5 years, they arent the thi ngs that make you happy.Particular when your list of expertise is long, its important to prioritize what to emphasize. You arent equally effective e at 20 different things. More likely theres a core set of skills you really enjoy flexing day in and day out, other areas of expertise can be framed as subset of those skills, and perhaps just perhaps the rest can be deleted.This exercise brings focus to your message. While it may seem like casting a wide net is a good approach, the opposite is actually true. In job search, where you focus is where you will find what you want. Successful jobseekers ask themselves what they want to do, make sure their own answer inspires them, then focus on finding that.When pursuing the actual roles, the foundation needs to be on expressing what you want, what inspires you, and what you enjoy into a clear, memorable brand. Then, get that brand in front of the right people, which doesnt mean blasting your resume out to the entire Internet. Theres a 1-P age New Job Cheat Sheet and Webinar that walks you through the only people you need to talk to, when to talk to them, and exactly what to say.Download your cheat sheet here so you learn how to do this. Only with that step correct can you then count on regularly interviewing and advancing through the job search process until you end up in the fortunate position of being able to choose from more than one offer.