Lynn shares tips and tricks for successful job search strategies, teaching individuals how to become effective job seekers, utilize strengths and create demand for those talents. Leverage your understanding of the "Three Pillars of Society" and how to be an "Opportunity Maker."

1. Lynn's Truisms:
Keys for Career
Success

2. What is a Truism?
● “a claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to
hardly be worth mentioning”

3. VUCA
VUCA is a term derived from the military to describe business
today
● Volatile
● Uncertain
● Complex
● Ambiguous

4. The World is Full of Information
Maybe a little
too much

5. ...Can be overwhelming

6. However...
You have the tools to help

7. Antidote to V.U.C.A
●
− Vision
− Understanding
− Clarity
− Agility

8. Strategies to Maximize Your
Effectiveness

9. You Remember...
“20% of what you hear” “30% of what you see”

10. “50% of what you hear and see”

11. “90% of what you teach”

12. Use Your Senses!
● You possess
− Sight
− Hearing
− Taste
− Smell
− Touch
Learn and integrate from each

13. Winners Are Always Prepared

14. Rule of 80/20
Success=80% Preparation
VS
20% Execution
Winging It
Winging It ≠ Strategy for Success

15. Practice...
● To become an expert, put in “10,000 hours” of
practice
● “Mozart had to work at least ten years before he
produced something that became popular”
(James Clear, Author of ‘Transform Your Habits’)

16. Deliberate Practice
● Working hard ≠ amount of time worked
● Practice with purpose
■ Become better at what you do
■ “What feels like struggle and frustration is often skill
development and growth”(James Clear, Author of ‘Transform Your Habits’)
■ Don’t fear getting tired

17. Be Curious
● Do your research
● Ask questions
● Study the greats in your field and how they performed
■ Every great performer cites an influence
■ Optimize your potential

18. “Be an Opportunity-Maker”
(Kare Anderson, TED Talk, “Be An Opportunity Maker,”
September 2014)
Former Wall Street reporter and current columnist for Forbes

19. As an Opportunity Maker...
● Hone your top strengths
● Become a pattern seeker
(Kare Anderson, TED Talk, “Be an opportunity maker,”
September 2014)

20. ● Get involved in different worlds so that you are
trusted and can see those patterns
● Communicate to connect around sweet spots
of shared interest
(Kare Anderson, TED Talk, “Be an opportunity
maker,” September 2014)

21. Spheres of Influence--Individual Contacts

22. What Do You Do Really Well?
I’m a subject matter expert in…
● What makes you unique?
● What makes you special?
● What are your strengths?

23. Do you talk the talk and walk the walk?
What’s your tightrope in life?

24. Three Pillars of Society
● “Three Pillars to Society”
 Rule of Law
 Rule of Logic
 Rule of Relationships

25. West
1) Law
2) Logic
3) Relationships
East
1) Relationships
2) Logic
3) Law
● “All are
indispensable, but
what’s most
important to
understand is that
the starting points
are different.”
(Alan Murray, Editor for Fortune Magazine, November 17, 2014)

26. Be Goal-Oriented (W5 + H)
● Ask Yourself
“What do I want to do and what impact will it make?”
“How will to do it?”
“Why do I want to do it?”
“Who can help me?”
“When will I achieve these goals?”
●3 months? 6 months? A year? 5 years?
“Where do I want to be after achieving these goals?”

27. Be Prepared for Unexpected Questions!

28. How many tennis balls can fit in a
school bus?

29. What are you seeking in a new job, that you
don’t have in your current situation?

30. Always Remember...
“If you look like, walk like, and talk like a duck... and client
is looking for a duck...the more duck-like , the greater the
chances of being hired.”
- Lynn Hazan
● Do you match the job specs? the culture?
● Are you a duck?

31. Now that you have the keys, which door(s) will you open?
Presentation created by Lynn Hazan and Mahdi
Grady

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