If your job search is taking too long and you’re a mid or senior-level leader, your gut may be telling you it’s time to broaden your appeal. To have a more general and therefore more appealing positioning. Don’t do it! Host Doug Lester explains, from a recruiter’s perspective, why broadening your positioning could be a big mistake. 👓 Read the original post on Substack 👉 Visit Craft Your Narrative on Substack 🎧 Take control of your narrative and advance your career — subscribe to the pod...
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If your job search is taking too long and you’re a mid or senior-level leader, your gut may be telling you it’s time to broaden your appeal. To have a more general and therefore more appealing positioning. Don’t do it! Host Doug Lester explains, from a recruiter’s perspective, why broadening your positioning could be a big mistake. 👓 Read the original post on Substack 👉 Visit Craft Your Narrative on Substack 🎧 Take control of your narrative and advance your career — subscribe to the pod...
22: Ditch the Fake Due Dates and Make Consistent Progress Toward Your Ideal Narrative
Career Narratives with Doug Lester
10 minutes
1 year ago
22: Ditch the Fake Due Dates and Make Consistent Progress Toward Your Ideal Narrative
If you want to craft a compelling work-life narrative, you need to stay focused on work that yields the stories you want to be able to tell about yourself. But truly important and impactful work tends to happen over time. So to keep yourself on track, you set arbitrary due dates for key milestones... and then you miss them. And then you reset your due dates — and do it again and again. It's not just inefficient. It can make you feel bad. There's a better way to keep the momentum going an...
Career Narratives with Doug Lester
If your job search is taking too long and you’re a mid or senior-level leader, your gut may be telling you it’s time to broaden your appeal. To have a more general and therefore more appealing positioning. Don’t do it! Host Doug Lester explains, from a recruiter’s perspective, why broadening your positioning could be a big mistake. 👓 Read the original post on Substack 👉 Visit Craft Your Narrative on Substack 🎧 Take control of your narrative and advance your career — subscribe to the pod...
