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Authors: Darrell Gurney, Ivan Misner
Tags: General, Social Science, Business & Economics, Careers, Job Hunting, Human Resources & Personnel Management
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high-adventure stunts, good guys, bad guys, and so on. He had designed these productions for years, but was out of work. I asked if he really loved what he did, which he emphatically affirmed. I then asked what was at the cutting edge of the industry and what was it that still interested him in the field. He said that he had always wondered why these live shows couldn’t have an audience-participation element affecting the turn of events, such as each audience member having a hand-held controller to input their choices or opinions that would then influence the outcome of the show.
I told him that this sounded like an excellent subject for a research project! His going in to meet with players in that world based on a question such as that was a far cry from someone simply hoofing it for a job. If you look hard, you might even see a bit of a mission or vision involved here… which is far more attractive than need.
Research projects may also focus on areas completely outside of what you have traditionally done for work, subjects you might generally classify as only interests or hobbies. The amazing truth I’ve seen played out many times is that, when someone researches a subject that he is genuinely passionate about, even if only currently a hobby, through getting to know and be known by people, he will often make inroads into that field work-wise and end up changing careers completely!
Here is another example to help drive this home. Remember Eileen from the Miracle Move #1 example earlier? She came to me when she was the VP of marketing for a large telecommunications company. Eileen wanted out of that situation for various reasons, and thought her only option was to transition into another marketing role with another telecommunications company. That is the myopic perspective most folks have in career transition because traditional thinking says, “Someone will only hire me to do exactly what I’ve done before.” In overt search, it’s absolutely true. In a stealth approach, it’s malleable.
CareerGuy Tip: In overt search, you’re limited to what you’ve done before. Using a stealth approach, you have leeway to make new choices.
What she was genuinely passionate about was neither cutting-edge marketing concepts nor the field of telecommunication, but her Jewish culture and faith. Earlier in her career, she had served a stint in marketing at the local Jewish Federation, but had found non-profit compensation lagging behind traditional corporate pay. She had always wanted to be more involved in the Jewish culture and had only dreamed of somehow working somewhere that could compensate her adequately.
The standard, overt approach would have seen her pursuing other telecom companies to do the same thing she haddone before. But, I coached her in the stealth mindset. After some extensive career inventory and personal branding work—to distinguish her unique essence beyond titles and employers, and therefore become memorable—she took on a research project to explore the state of the Jewish culture and met people far and wide outside of her small, telecommunications niche.
Through relationships that she developed during that research, she was referred to more people than she would have ever met outside of such a research project. People started getting to know her, and to see her skills and talents outside of the strict definition of “marketing” and “telecom.” One person led to another person, one bit of information or advice led to another, and eventually someone simply mentioned to her that he knew someone looking for a particular person and how Eileen really fit the bill. The result was that she became the executive director of a non-profit organization that trains bomb-sniffing dogs for Israel!
Did she get that role because she had any experience as a non-profit executive director? Not at all. However, through simply meeting and getting known by people far and wide in her field of passionate interest, at
I told him that this sounded like an excellent subject for a research project! His going in to meet with players in that world based on a question such as that was a far cry from someone simply hoofing it for a job. If you look hard, you might even see a bit of a mission or vision involved here… which is far more attractive than need.
Research projects may also focus on areas completely outside of what you have traditionally done for work, subjects you might generally classify as only interests or hobbies. The amazing truth I’ve seen played out many times is that, when someone researches a subject that he is genuinely passionate about, even if only currently a hobby, through getting to know and be known by people, he will often make inroads into that field work-wise and end up changing careers completely!
Here is another example to help drive this home. Remember Eileen from the Miracle Move #1 example earlier? She came to me when she was the VP of marketing for a large telecommunications company. Eileen wanted out of that situation for various reasons, and thought her only option was to transition into another marketing role with another telecommunications company. That is the myopic perspective most folks have in career transition because traditional thinking says, “Someone will only hire me to do exactly what I’ve done before.” In overt search, it’s absolutely true. In a stealth approach, it’s malleable.
CareerGuy Tip: In overt search, you’re limited to what you’ve done before. Using a stealth approach, you have leeway to make new choices.
What she was genuinely passionate about was neither cutting-edge marketing concepts nor the field of telecommunication, but her Jewish culture and faith. Earlier in her career, she had served a stint in marketing at the local Jewish Federation, but had found non-profit compensation lagging behind traditional corporate pay. She had always wanted to be more involved in the Jewish culture and had only dreamed of somehow working somewhere that could compensate her adequately.
The standard, overt approach would have seen her pursuing other telecom companies to do the same thing she haddone before. But, I coached her in the stealth mindset. After some extensive career inventory and personal branding work—to distinguish her unique essence beyond titles and employers, and therefore become memorable—she took on a research project to explore the state of the Jewish culture and met people far and wide outside of her small, telecommunications niche.
Through relationships that she developed during that research, she was referred to more people than she would have ever met outside of such a research project. People started getting to know her, and to see her skills and talents outside of the strict definition of “marketing” and “telecom.” One person led to another person, one bit of information or advice led to another, and eventually someone simply mentioned to her that he knew someone looking for a particular person and how Eileen really fit the bill. The result was that she became the executive director of a non-profit organization that trains bomb-sniffing dogs for Israel!
Did she get that role because she had any experience as a non-profit executive director? Not at all. However, through simply meeting and getting known by people far and wide in her field of passionate interest, at
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