Part 3: Own Your Career

PART THREE Own Your Career

OLD WORLD:

“Stand in line… and wait to be picked”

NEW WORLD:

“Hustle: create opportunities for yourself.”

The Protean Career

The Lean Career

MVC: Minimum Viable Career

Listen, Learn, Network, Experiment

PEOPLE ARE OPPORTUNITIES

1. Treat networking as a learning experience 2. Come with a mission shaped as a question

3. Add before you ask 4. Leave your ego at the door

5. Don’t get attached to outcomes

5 METHODS

Create Your Job

Network |

Project |

Bigger project |

Credibility

Find Your Tribe

“A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one

tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.”

Seth Godin

Make Yourself Useful

Hustle

Shadow someone.

Shadow someone. Ask for a sabbatical.


Ask for a change of role.


Ask for a change of role. Organise a meetup.


Ask for a change of role. Organise a meetup. Attend a group.


Ask for a change of role. Organise a meetup. Attend a group. Create space.


Ask for a change of role. Organise a meetup. Attend a group. Create space. Start a blog.


Ask for a change of role. Organise a meetup. Attend a group. Create space. Start a blog. Ask for help.


Ask for a change of role. Organise a meetup. Attend a group. Create space. Start a blog. Ask for help. Do free work.



Start a book club.



Start a book club. Try new things.



Start a book club. Try new things. Give a talk.




Create a product.




Create a product. Volunteer.

Build a public platform

www.tumblr.com wwww.wordpress.com

Common Mistakes Career Changers Make

Expecting it to be linear.

Expecting it to be linear. Expecting it to happen overnight.


Waiting for something to come to them.


Waiting for something to come to them. Searching for opportunities on job boards.


Waiting for something to come to them. Searching for opportunities on job boards. Networking from a place of acquisition.



Entitlement.



Entitlement. Hiding away silently.



Entitlement. Hiding away silently.

Taking big bets.

EXERCISES

SUMMARY