Rather than start with what you do want in a future executive position, a different tactic may be to identify all of the functions you definitely do not want in a future position. Thus, your job search excludes all of the elements of a job that you do not want to have. In this employment economy, there is no be-all, know-all, do-all executive. While you need to be flexible about the work you will take on and certainly expand your role once you are in a position, you will not be interviewed, much less be selected for hire, if your unique selling proposition is that you can do anything. Learn how to create effective parameters that efficiently focus your job search.

1. Job Search Focus for
Success: Know What You
Do NOT Want in a Job
Amy L. Adler
CEO

2. There is No Be-All, Know-All,
Do-All Executive
• While you need to be
flexible about the work
you will take on, you
will not be interviewed if
your unique selling
proposition is that you
can do anything.
• Learn how to create
effective parameters
that efficiently focus
your job search.
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3. The Venn Diagram
• The Venn diagram has
three or four
overlapping circles that
identify sets of
elements.
• Some elements are in
all sets, and some are
in just one.
• Think about your
potential future jobs like
these overlapping
circles.
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4. Think About Your Potential
Future Positions
• Are the positions you have
chosen very much alike?
• If so, your circles overlap
significantly.
• If they do not overlap, then
you have a complex
process of elimination
before you.
– You need to identify exactly
what you do not want in a
position.
– These roles are ones you
can eliminate.
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5. Your Potential Future Positions
• Are all of these ideal
for you?
• Do they overlap?
• By how much?
• The less they overlap,
the more pruning you
have to do to home in
on your perfect role.
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6. Pruning Roles
• Determine which of the
remaining job
characteristics, perhaps
the ones that fall into
two job types, you can
cut from will become
your short list.
• You should have a
tightly nested or
overlapping set of
circles representing a
very sharply focused
set of job titles.
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7. With Your Renewed Focus
• You can now write an
executive resume and craft
an executive job search that
positions you 100% to one
target.
• The benefits of this
approach are many
– You will be able to market
yourself so compellingly for
specific job functions in
specific industries/company
types/geographies, and so
on.
– A future hiring leader cannot
help but recognize the
solution to his problems in
your candidacy.
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8. Need to know more about
focusing your job search?
• Five Strengths can
help.
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