Disrupt Your Career

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Check out my conversation with Claire Harbour and Antoine Tirard on the Disrupt Your Career podcast. Key topic: stop thinking of yourself as an employee trying to get picked, and start thinking of yourself as a consultant bringing specific value to a client.

That may sound like a small change, but it is a huge reframe.

Start by defining your core value proposition, which I call your superpower. It’s your specific combination of skills, experience, perspective, values, and results that define what you deliver through your work.

Once you understand your superpower, lead with it in every conversation about your next move. Instead of trying to fit yourself into their definition of the job, base your job search on discovering which jobs map to your superpower.

Your success rate will soar. You’ll get more interviews. And you’ll greatly reduce the amount of time it takes you to find your next gig.

Check out the interview for more!

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John Tarnoff is an executive and career transition coach, speaker, and author who supports mid and late-career professionals in defining, planning, and achieving more meaningful and sustainable careers.

Fired 39% during his 35 years as a film producer, studio executive and tech entrepreneur, he learned how to turn setbacks into successes in a volatile business. He reinvented his own career at 50, earning a master’s degree in counseling psychology to share his career lessons with others going through similar challenges.

Since leaving entertainment in 2010, John has coached individuals, groups, and led career workshops for university alumni, including for UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Corporate coaching clients have included Bank of America, Bridgewater Assoc., Levi-Strauss, Softbank, TD Ameritrade, and Thrive Global.

He is the author of the best-selling Boomer Reinvention: How to Create your Dream Career Over 50 and has been named a Top Influencer in Aging by PBS/NextAvenue.

 

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