Crafting Your Job Search Narrative

The Job Search Narrative is the story or pitch that you have when you are looking for a new position. You don't have to be actively job searching to have a good job search narrative.

A job search narrative is more about the story you are telling about who you are as a professional and where you are headed in your career. It is the next level of depth past an elevator pitch to inform someone of your professional status.

The interesting part is that you don't have to be actively job searching to have a good job search narrative. This is similar to an elevator pitch, but more intentional.

A job search narrative is more about the story you are telling about who you are as a professional and where you are headed in your career. It is the next level of depth past an elevator pitch to inform someone of your professional status.

In this episode, I share my own experience of not having a good job search narrative that cost me positions and I share examples of what a good narrative sounds like and what an unprepared narrative sounds like.

The components of the Job Search Narrative include:

1. Know where you are headed.
2. Know what makes you awesome.
3. Be prepared to talk about a big project or accomplishment in your career that supports where you are headed.

BONUS: At the very end of the podcast, after the closing music, I shared a short recording my son made with me – he's 2.5. Enjoy!

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