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Job Search Focus forSuccess: Know What You
Do NOT Want in a JobAmy L. Adler
CEO
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There is No Be-All, Know-All,Do-All Executive
• While you need to be flexible about the work you will take on, you will not be interviewed if your unique selling proposition is that you can do anything.
• Learn how to create effective parameters that efficiently focus your job search.
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The Venn Diagram
• The Venn diagram has three or four overlapping circles that identify sets of elements.
• Some elements are in all sets, and some are in just one.
• Think about your potential future jobs like these overlapping circles.
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Think About Your PotentialFuture Positions
• Are the positions you have chosen very much alike?
• If so, your circles overlap significantly.
• If they do not overlap, then you have a complex process of elimination before you.– You need to identify exactly
what you do not want in a position.
– These roles are ones you can eliminate.
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Your Potential Future Positions
• Are all of these ideal for you?
• Do they overlap?
• By how much?
• The less they overlap, the more pruning you have to do to home in on your perfect role.
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Pruning Roles
• Determine which of the remaining job characteristics, perhaps the ones that fall into two job types, you can cut from will become your short list.
• You should have a tightly nested or overlapping set of circles representing a very sharply focused set of job titles.
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With Your Renewed Focus
• You can now write an executive resume and craft an executive job search that positions you 100% to one target.
• The benefits of this approach are many– You will be able to market
yourself so compellingly for specific job functions in specific industries/company types/geographies, and so on.
– A future hiring leader cannot help but recognize the solution to his problems in your candidacy.
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Need to know more aboutfocusing your job search?
• Five Strengths can help.
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