Turn over a lot of rocks

This is a follow up to a LinkedIn article I wrote recently that spoke to the fact that you need to “turn over a lot of rocks” to find that next job. In other words, be persistent. I gave 7 tips on how to do that in the article. If you are on LinkedIn, check it out here.

Today I want to talk about what that means a little bit more and I have 3 suggestions for making that happen. Mostly through my philosophy of embracing ‘intentional serendipity’.

So watch this short video and learn how you can
‘turn over a lot of rocks’ to find your next job.

Jim Peacock is the Principal at Peak-Careers Consulting and writes a weekly email for career practitioners. Peak-Careers offers discussion-based online seminars for career practitioners focused on meeting continuing education needs for CCSP, GCDF and BCC certified professionals as well as workshops for career practitioners and individual career coaching.

He is the author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners: Helping Your Clients Create Their Next Move and The Adventure of Finding Me in New Zealand. He is also the recipient of the 2020 Kenneth C. Hoyt Award from the National Career Development Association and the Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association’s Professional Contribution’s Award in 2020.

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Career decision making is like a 1000 piece puzzle with a number of pieces missing and only a vague picture on the box to work from. Each person thinks they have a complete puzzle to put together, but our job as a career counselor / coach / advisor is to help our clients find as many of the outside pieces as possible to give them the framework and some direction.

Too many people think career decision making is a linear process, but each person takes the puzzle pieces he / she can find and fits them together to begin to make a picture of themselves. As career practitioners we may use assessments to help fit pieces together, we may use open ended questions, we may use work or family history, but ultimately what we are doing is helping the clients / students find pieces that fit together.

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