What do you want? Watch this video and then try to answer this question about your work. I dare you.
Then tell me – was it easy to answer?
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[reminder]Was this question easy to answer for you?[/reminder]
How I Got Job Offers I Never Applied For
Most professionals know that networking works better than job boards. They know the stats. They know the drill. And yet they keep refreshing Indeed and wondering why nothing is moving.
In this episode Dale Callahan shares a story from early in his career — a cold call to a stranger that ended with a job offer he never applied for — and then breaks down the exact framework, six common mistakes, and the daily habit that keeps the whole system working.
I’ve been thinking about this question since you asked it at the IEM summer seminar 6 months ago. I still don’t have a solidified answer yet. I can think of lots of peripheral things like “I want to be my own boss” or “I want to run my own company” but I don’t think that is necessarily what my end game should be. There are a lot of ways I could meet these goals without really being happy. Still pondering…
Keep pondering – we will work on you more this summer;)
Update to the comments: Brandon Morgado has now graduated from IEM (2011), and successfully launched his own business, StartUpBirmingham (www.startupbirmingham.com), along with Chase Wright (IEM 2012). They were featured in the IEM CloseUp, June 2011, and you can check out that interview here: http://www.uab.edu/iem/iem-experience/news-headlines/27-blog/187-pilot-episode-of-iem-closeup-meet-startup-birmingham