Hey cultivator, welcome back to my channel! In today's video,
I want to talk to you about career clarity because it is one of the most
important steps to your job search success.
Yet it is often the most overlooked. So we'll talk about why it's so important,
why it's often overlooked. And if you don't have career clarity right now,
I'm going to provide you three questions to get you started on this journey of
figuring out what a fulfilling career looks like for you.
So without further ado, let's dive into today's video.
So career clarity is so important to your job search success,
because I want you to just imagine that right now, your career is Google maps.
If you know exactly where you are right now,
you have your coordinates of your current location,
or maybe you're that blue dot on this screen,
but you don't know what you're typing into next.
You don't know a specific location of where you're headed or in this case,
what type of title or industry or company you want to join,
then you're not going to be moving in any direction, right?
You're just going to be either stagnant or you might just start driving the car,
but you might realize that you're on this really far off location
that is far away from the actual place that you want to land in terms
of having a lifelong career or fulfilling career.
So when you have this specific location that you want to go into,
what is also beautiful about this is that you don't have to have a dozen
versions of your resume floating around or a dozen elevator pitches.
You can get very specific on this is what I want to do,
and this is what I'm orienting myself towards. Here's my narrative.
And that narrative can then be put onto your LinkedIn profile.
And let me tell you,
you may have multiple versions of your resume that you're tweaking to all of
these different specific jobs, but you only have one LinkedIn profile.
And so as a recruiter or as a hiring manager or HR professional,
is it clear to me off the bat that this is the one thing that you're really
dedicating yourself towards?
Because it's costly for companies to make the wrong hire.
They have been burned in the past by hiring somebody who has just dabbled
or gotten their feet wet and realized like, you know,
this isn't what I want to do after all, right?
And it costs companies tens of thousands of dollars to have to replace and
retrain and go through that entire process again.
So when a company can see that you are really dedicated
towards this one thing, this one path,
your whole job search is going to be easier. Not only this,
but you're going to know exactly what to say, who you need to hang out with,
where are you need to go to meet these people. And again,
you'll be able to introduce yourself. I have a student in my program,
The Happily Hired Formula, that recently told me, you know,
before joining the program and getting clarity,
she didn't know what she wanted to do.
She was going around saying I would be interested in being an account executive
or I would be interested in being an event manager or a project
manager. And yes, while she could do all of these three things,
she started to realize that one day somebody who had the hiring decision asked
her, what is it that you want to do for our organization?
If we can open up any role for you.
And that's when she got that moment of clarity of, Oh my gosh, I have no idea.
And again,
you can't just tell a company that you're willing to do anything and you could
fit into any position that is open.
They want to know how are you aligning your skills, your experience,
your knowledge,
to be the best in this particular role that you're looking to fill.
All right.
So now we understand why career clarity is so vital to your job search success.
Let's talk about what prevents people from getting this clarity.
There's two main reasons in my opinion, one is analysis paralysis.
There's so many options out there.
It could be very daunting and overwhelming to commit to one particular path,
right?
I actually have a whole video on the three mindset blocks that prevent us from
taking action that we know deep down inside we want to take.
And a lot of that goes towards fear and scarcity.
So you might want to check that out,
to dig in a little bit deeper into the logical side of our brains and how
to overcome making a career transition or switch.
But the second reason is I believe in this day and age,
we are filled with distractions.
Very few of us actually create the quiet time, the quiet space,
to sit there and reflect on what it is we truly want.
And I believe that we have all of the answers deep down inside of us. However,
we need to extract that out.
And some of the best ways to do that is just by getting silent and sitting still
and thinking through your background and what's important to you.
So with that in mind,
I want to segway into three questions to get you on the right path of starting
to figure out what a fulfilling and meaningful career would look like for you in
this next chapter.
The first question I want you to ask goes back to the fear and scarcity.
So what would you do if you couldn't fail or money was of no concern?
And I want you to just sit with this question and for all of these questions,
just journal out anything that's coming to mind and just write very openly and
honestly, and see what comes up for you. A lot of us again,
know what it is that we want deep down inside,
we've probably already fantasized. Wouldn't it be cool if,
or I wonder what this would be like if I pursued this path.
We have an inkling of what it is that we're interested in,
but there may be a lot of fear and scarcity around making that shift or that
move. But for now, I encourage you to just dream boldly,
write it down because I truly believe whatever we want to obtain.
We can reverse engineer that, right?
Every career pivot is possible so long as you're willing to put in the work
and address some of these limiting beliefs and fears that are holding you back
from taking the action that you need to make that possible.
The second question I want you to take into are what is in your zone of genius,
your zone of genius may be described as that flow state,
where you were enjoying something that you were doing so much,
that you completely lost track of time.
Have you ever had that feeling where you're just so in the zone that you just
completely block out everything else around you,
because you feel so much joy and satisfaction in what you're doing.
Your zone of genius really is the intersection between not only what is it that
you're good at, but what do you truly enjoy doing? For example,
one of my strengths is sales. I'm good at sales,
but I don't necessarily enjoy doing sales so that wouldn't be in my zone of
genius. Another thing that I'm really interested in and enjoy is watercoloring,
but I'm not good at it by any means, that wouldn't be in my zone of genius.
So again,
your zones of genius is the intersection of your strengths and your interests.
And this is really where a lot of career satisfaction comes from when you're
doing something that you enjoy and you're actually feeling competent and good at
it. To give an example, one of my zones of genius is coaching.
I like to believe that I'm pretty good at coaching,
and I genuinely love it so much that I often lose track of time doing it.
So take a moment and brainstorm the various positions that you've held.
They could be volunteer work, they could be school internships,
they could be projects, they could be full-time work or consulting.
What is it that you did on a day to day that you loved, you enjoyed,
you really immersed yourself and start to put in those
specific skills or roles or tasks to guide you into what
you want more of in this next career pivot. And finally,
what is the impact that you want to make? Who is it that you want to serve?
What do you want to help them with?
When you can drill in on the impact that you want to make,
you can start to think about what a purposeful career would look like for you.
And let me tell you, whenever you're living a purposeful career,
you're going to have a purposeful life.
You're going to feel so much more meaningful connection in your day to day.
You're going to be able to push past those difficult moments in your
career because you know that you're connected to a larger purpose.
So I'm going to leave you with those three key questions. Again,
just journal them out without any judgements of yourself,
of what others might think, just share boldly, dream big.
And if you want more questions,
be sure to check out the link down below in the description box.
I put together inside of the free resource library,
10 questions that you can dig into on a deeper level to start sparking those
creative juices around what it is that you are really looking for in your next
career. And don't forget, you were put on this planet for a very special reason.
If you think about it,
it's crazy that your chances of being here is one in 400 trillion.
And there is out there that has the exact same background,
the exact same skills or experience or knowledge or any talents or
interests. Where do you want to apply your zone of genius?
I truly believe that if you have a destination you're putting into your career
GPS, you can absolutely get there.
Everything is reverse engineerable with the right mindset and the right
strategies. I hope you enjoyed this video.
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Be sure to check out this video next week until then I hope that you continue to
cultivate your life and your career. Take care.