Once you have done your Listening Tour, then creating your Candidate-Market Fit statement takes no more than two weeks if you are out of work (again, it could be longer if you are balancing a full-time job).

where they can contribute meaningfully,

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you would like to explore what will help you succeed in the role.

That’s why it’s important to keep doing these exercises every time you change jobs. At this point, Mnookin is a professor who, in fact, does sit in her office and think “deep thoughts” as well as sits on boards and helps with strategy rather than implementing stuff. But that was not true in 2010.

Walt was a Chief Product Officer for media companies, and he wanted to move into a President role outside of the media world.

“The simple idea that I should step back and evaluate what in the past did not work (and I did not like), and equally what is important to me led to the realization that, for me, ‘culture is king.’ I had never stopped to think about that. And that changed not just my job search, but how I carry myself, how I lead, how I now run meetings.

Sadly, because so many people are in jobs that they don’t love, they find themselves working on something that doesn’t matter, for someone who does not care about them or their career.

To support you, though, we have free moderator training for all moderators who sign up for Job Search Councils at Phyl.org (and if you are running your own, you can still register with us so you get the training). We also have a free JSC moderator Slack channel, and we even have a Moderator Workbook.