I am new to the fold here. The thing that dragged me in is the annuall self-reflection piece. I did it for my personal life and it's spreading onto my community now.
Seeing that I'm not too familiar with your overall work I might be doubling down on topics you've covered.
I'm from South Eastern Europe but work for a US (Midwestern) company. I was burdened by trauma from my earlier jobs and the cutthroat career world I lived in. The happiness and fulfilment I am experiencing now is slowly fading the trauma away but I needed to work on it hard. I would suggest thinking about:
- How to work on oneself while working on your career (especially work based after trauma)
- How to be open of mindset changes and cultural differences
- How to switch career paths and open oneself to work based happiness
P. S. There is one dillema me and my partner struggle with. I often had to apply for as many job positions as possible in order to find what's best for me. She thinks it's important to apply for the job positions she guages to be perfect for her. Both are hard but what's right, we're unsure.
I’m interested in the link between system changers and trauma/past adversity overcome. I’d love to hear thoughts on how people who have been impactful through their work have approached the shift out of a restful-healing period and into an outward, creative period. Is it an easing in, or a drastic shift? Do you honour your own process, or seize the opportunities that occur, make do with where you’re at internally and navigate the messiness of comprise?
This is a powerful question and something I personally navigate often as well. I'm planning to write a lot about burnout next year because I survived career-pausing burnout a couple of years ago.
Shifting deliberately into higher gears is a key component of staying out of burnout, in my opinion.
I’m really appreciative of your daily routines and have you implemented the kickstart and wind down. Other frameworks and rituals when we’re digging into a position and managing our careers would be fantastic. I used everything I could from your career search frameworks and I got a great position that aligns to my needs, goals and priorities! I feel like your library of materials for job search is so valuable and on point. I would love to see more support and insight for untraditional career development. I decided to pivot from the corporate grind and career climbing to consulting and I’m SO much happier and feel so unburdened and free. Yet I must take charge of my career development etc being a “free agent”. Any advice on how to navigate these waters would be appreciated! I love your content and feel that it’s very practical and simple enough to integrate and implement. Thank you for being so amazing!
More insights into how companies most likely will behave during each phase of the interview cycle, based on their size or stage. For example, some recruiters, during the initial screen, accept a vague answer about salary (“I’m trying to gauge that now”). Bigger companies may force a range for base and total comp before moving forward at all...
Love the framing of this. Given the audience and scope of the newsletter, I focus on one-size-fits-all advice (for example, about salary negotiation) because it usually covers 80% of candidate scenarios.
But in my 1:1 coaching I often help people work through all the non-vanilla situations -- for example negotiation directly with the founder/owner, or through a proxy like a board member, or with the hiring manager.
I love your prompt to frame some of the advice around the size of the company, which will inevitably pull out some of these less common scenarios and the advice I can offer to help you navigate them. Thank you.
I am new to the fold here. The thing that dragged me in is the annuall self-reflection piece. I did it for my personal life and it's spreading onto my community now.
Seeing that I'm not too familiar with your overall work I might be doubling down on topics you've covered.
I'm from South Eastern Europe but work for a US (Midwestern) company. I was burdened by trauma from my earlier jobs and the cutthroat career world I lived in. The happiness and fulfilment I am experiencing now is slowly fading the trauma away but I needed to work on it hard. I would suggest thinking about:
- How to work on oneself while working on your career (especially work based after trauma)
- How to be open of mindset changes and cultural differences
- How to switch career paths and open oneself to work based happiness
P. S. There is one dillema me and my partner struggle with. I often had to apply for as many job positions as possible in order to find what's best for me. She thinks it's important to apply for the job positions she guages to be perfect for her. Both are hard but what's right, we're unsure.
I’m interested in the link between system changers and trauma/past adversity overcome. I’d love to hear thoughts on how people who have been impactful through their work have approached the shift out of a restful-healing period and into an outward, creative period. Is it an easing in, or a drastic shift? Do you honour your own process, or seize the opportunities that occur, make do with where you’re at internally and navigate the messiness of comprise?
This is a powerful question and something I personally navigate often as well. I'm planning to write a lot about burnout next year because I survived career-pausing burnout a couple of years ago.
Shifting deliberately into higher gears is a key component of staying out of burnout, in my opinion.
I’m really appreciative of your daily routines and have you implemented the kickstart and wind down. Other frameworks and rituals when we’re digging into a position and managing our careers would be fantastic. I used everything I could from your career search frameworks and I got a great position that aligns to my needs, goals and priorities! I feel like your library of materials for job search is so valuable and on point. I would love to see more support and insight for untraditional career development. I decided to pivot from the corporate grind and career climbing to consulting and I’m SO much happier and feel so unburdened and free. Yet I must take charge of my career development etc being a “free agent”. Any advice on how to navigate these waters would be appreciated! I love your content and feel that it’s very practical and simple enough to integrate and implement. Thank you for being so amazing!
So many great insights here! To summarize:
1/ keep writing about job searching
2/ keep writing about productivity rituals
3/ start writing about getting into and navigating non-traditional paths ie W2 to 1099/solopreneurship/consulting
Did I miss anything?
More insights into how companies most likely will behave during each phase of the interview cycle, based on their size or stage. For example, some recruiters, during the initial screen, accept a vague answer about salary (“I’m trying to gauge that now”). Bigger companies may force a range for base and total comp before moving forward at all...
Love the framing of this. Given the audience and scope of the newsletter, I focus on one-size-fits-all advice (for example, about salary negotiation) because it usually covers 80% of candidate scenarios.
But in my 1:1 coaching I often help people work through all the non-vanilla situations -- for example negotiation directly with the founder/owner, or through a proxy like a board member, or with the hiring manager.
I love your prompt to frame some of the advice around the size of the company, which will inevitably pull out some of these less common scenarios and the advice I can offer to help you navigate them. Thank you.