18. #1: Nobody cares about you like you.
“If you don't design your own life
plan, chances are you'll fall into
someone else's plan.
Guess what they planned for you?
Not much.”
-Jim Rohn
19. #2: You’ll be more successful.
“The dirty little secret is that
people who are intrinsically
motivated… almost always
outperform their extrinsically
motivated peers.”
-Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
20. #3: You won’t regret it.
YOU ONLY REGRET
THE THINGS YOU
DIDN’T DO.
21. 1. I wish I'd had the courage to
live a life true to myself, not
the life others expected of
me.
2. I wish I didn't work so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my
feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my
friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
22. The Perfect Job Strategy
Purpose
Pick
Proposals
Yourself Passion Potential
Power Source
23. Your Perfect Job is a Perfect Fit
PURPOSE
The difference I
EPIC FAIL
want to make… EPIC FAIL
Ability Happiness
FAIL FAIL
Power
Source
PASSIONS Meaning
FAIL
POTENTIAL
I love… I’m good at…
EPIC FAIL
24. What is most important What bigger difference
to me in life? VALUES CAUSES do I want to be a part of?
PURPOSE
What are my life’s truths? What needs of others do
BELIEFS SERVICE I love to serve?
What do I love? What am I great at?
Power
ATTRACTIONS Source TALENTS
PASSIONS POTENTIAL
ENVIRONMENT SKILLS
What type of place What do I know?
and role do I relish? What can I do?
27. The Perfect Job Strategy
Purpose
Pick
Proposals
Yourself Passion Potential
Power Source
28. “You can have
everything you want in
life if you will just help
enough other people
get what they want”
– Zig Ziglar
29. “Charlie Hoehn first reached out to me in 2008.
Almost three years later, he is still working with me.”
-Tim Ferris
30.
31. “After visiting your site countless times
since May ’07, I’ve come up with a few
suggestions that could improve your
readers’ experience. Here are the two
1
things I think you need…” What it would take:
How I could help:
What the benefits are to you:
2
What it would take:
How I could help:
What the benefits are to you:
“In exchange for these things, I hope that
you’d consider taking me on as an intern.”
36. Checklist: Your Proposal…
Is all about THEM (not you)
Shows off your POWER SOURCE
Is truly VALUABLE
Is easy to say YES to
Is a PLEASURE for you to do
Connects to a way to make MONEY
40. #1: Persistence = Success
Who said this…
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up.”
“There's a way to do it better - find it.”
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
41. #2: Competition is NOT fierce.
“The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the
brick walls are there to give us a chance to show
how badly we want something.
The brick walls are there to stop the people who
don't want it badly enough.”
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
42. #3: You’ll find your Tribe.
“Be who you are and say
what you feel because those
who mind don’t matter and
those who matter don’t mind”
43. REVIEW: The Perfect Job Strategy
Purpose
Pick
Proposals
Yourself Passion Potential
Power Source
44. My Offer to You
I will moderate a private group on LinkedIN
The Perfect Job Strategists
I will select up to 3 people to actively assist
I will help anyone who really needs it
45. Two Paths from Here
1. Don’t commit to the Perfect Job Strategy
– please tell me why! edwinjansen@gmail.com
2. Commit and take action!
47. The Pact: It’s all up to YOU
• I will be honest with myself
• I will do some serious introspection
• I will find a person or group to help me
• I will apply to be a Perfect Job protégé
• I won’t listen to people who don’t believe
• I will think BIG
• I will take steps every day
• I refuse to settle
• I won’t make a back up plan
• I will have faith
ACTIONS: WHAT WILL YOU DO BY WHEN?
COMMIT TO DATES!!!
How badly do you want a different job?low/pretty happymedium/openhigh/hate or don’t have oneWhat type? New role at existing orgNew role at new orgStart my own venture, business or partnershipWhat field?Client Side Communications or MarketingAgency Communications or MarketingOther
Who am I and where did I come from?Hacked school, did the least possibleScared. Lazy. Dropped out of any practical classes like biz. Almost went to law school. First lucky business job, totally loved it. Cared about the industry/difference, so leftLucked in to a good company that fit my purpose – was aligned luckilyWas able to create my own job at each turnRead Start with Why.Spent a year trying to find out mineWas able to help people find theirs – no map for it in existenceRealized most people don’t get lucky – started helping interns and people on my team – foreshadow the Ash and Theo storiesWhat is my vision? People love their jobs, people follow their dreams + make a differenceWhat will they get out of this? A job strategy that I guarantee will workWant to help 100 people. Why do I think I can do that? Because I’ve done it
Did free work for She-JayDidn’t stop when Dad and Bfriend told her toNot RIM, but more free work
· Was in corporate law for a few years at a big firm. Made great money, was successful, but not happy [DULL SUBJECT MATTER, LONG HOURS]· Always loved music, love negotiating contracts and making deals, and was good at it · Quit job for a lower level role contracts role at one of the big music labels – for a third of the pay (how did you get that job? Friend? Applied?) [APPLIED FOR AN IN-HOUSE COUNSEL JOB THAT WAS ADVERTISED – DIDN’T GET THAT JOB BECAUSE HAD NO RELEVANT EXPERIENCE, CONTINUED TO NETWORK AND STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE HIRING COMMITTEE, EVENTUALLY OFFERED A NON-LAWYER POSITION IN THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT – TOOK IT, KNOWING I WOULD BE PROMOTED, BUT THAT THE CHANCES OF GETTING IN WITHOUT A FOOT IN THE DOOR THAT WAY WERE NIL.]· Within 3 years was making the same as the law job, and now more as [Vice President, and member of Senior Management team. Contract Administrator to VP, reporting direct to CEO – all within 5 years.]
Use personal example – how people react
80 interview offers. In the past three weeks I’ve interviewed with many of the major tech companies in New York, Seattle and San Francisco. It’s been an incredible ride and an extremely humbling one to say the least. I received offers, rejections and everything in-between but in the end I was fortunate enough to have been given an offer that would allow me to fulfill my dream job. Some of you haters out there probably think SigFig was my fall back choice since Google didn’t hire me. That really couldn’t be further from the truth. If Google extended an offer to me I honestly may have declined in order to take the job at SigFig. That’s how much I believe in the product and that’s how much their mission resonates with me. It was a huge risk for me to join a relatively unknown startup instead of setting up shop at one of two tech giants that extended offers to me. Guess what though mustachios, sometimes the greatest risks in life are the greatest ones worth taking.
