7 Career Mistakes

MISTAKES PEOPLE MAKE:

-Disqualifying yourself

-Not testing your assumptions

-Pointless self-searching, no need to take all these tests

-Trying to "figure it out" and take your time, when in reality you should just start doing it

-Trying to make it on your own.

-Not getting specific. Causes you to send your resume to all kinds of jobs in an unstructured way. This creates a black hole of doom.

-Don't talk about health problems, try to seem strong.

-Don't really need to use recruiters. Get in there and do it yourself.


TO DO:

-When you get stuck, you should go outward. Go external, not internal.

-Think about your core 2-3 problems, and then go external with it. Ramit teaches scripts of good questions people can use when going external for advice.

-People really stand out if they actually ask for advice, in a genuine curiosity-based way.

-Use your alumni network. You have more of a network than you think.

-Build up your credibility markers.

-Be specific about what job title you are looking for, such as Research Analyst for a marketing company or full-service agency.

-Get ultra-specific about the job you want. Say that you want to work doing research analytics in a way that is really genuine and connected and has a relationship with clients, and here are five companies I'm looking at.

-Get more and more specific with your career over time as you find out what you want to be involved in, and make everything contribute to that career path.

-Approach your target and pitch yourself. Come up with three mind map ways to pitch yourself. I'm an efficient, smart, and improvement-minded market researcher, with a history of creating helpful protocols, and problem-solving and being incisive to think about what the heart of the matter is. great experience drawing the right meaning out of dadta.

-Use a resume as a narrative document

-Talk about what you can do for the company, not what you want for yourself.

-Find out what the company's challenges are, talk to the hiring manager. Companies have specific problems. If you can name the name of problems they have, you are dramatically more likely to get hired.

-What can you offer? Know what the company wants. Put yourself in the mind of your future boss.

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