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Having confusion and doubt about what jobs are available for your skills is normal. Discovering how to find the "right" position that leverages all your strengths requires deliberate planning and self awareness.

Andrew and Scott discuss ideas around finding what jobs you would be qualified for and how to find them.

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Jobseeker's radio. I'm Andrew and I'm Scott. This production is meant to provide you the listener meaningful support to land, great careers faster. And that's why they're you're working or not today on job seekers radio. We're talking about what job. Am. I really qualified for this is coming from the perspective. Scott of situations where I've had candidates, they come to me. They have a list of stuff, right? Skills, strengths experiences education all that. And they don't know where they fit in the marketplace. And so this podcast episode is revolving around, how do I understand based on my current situation? What I'm qualified for in the marketplace. Maybe I'd been in a role or a company for a long time. Right. Whatever that long time means so they're two prongs to this. First of all, there are those who they know the. Kind of job, they want, but they don't think they're fully qualified for it, but there's also what do I do, when I just don't know where to go, and we've, we've already talked and prior podcasts about how do you make choices about career and how do I pick a direction, and we can refer back to those prior podcasts for some of that thinking, but really, how do I determine what I'm qualified for? I will always direct clients back to what you want to do with what really drives you? And if there are several different things that drive you several kinds of work, then pick one, try decide, what that looks like what the end result might be. And then we can talk about how do you qualify currently. And how do you build skills to increase that qualification? But all of that is workable. We had talked, I think before the podcast came. On I might've even shared this in a prior episode. But there was some research done that said the odds of getting an interview are the same. If you meet fifty percent of the requirements versus about ninety percent there was no recognizable increase in your ability to gain from blind application. Of course, is we're not talking networking at this time. But I think that's validation for me that anything is possible. I would agree. And I encourage you, if we focus on what Scott said, we just talk about the drivers things we wanna do often our audience, the hiring team whoever it is were talking to about our drivers are going to say, I think you're a fit for this, okay? Now, I just had somebody validate first person what my drivers are translating to in their organization. And I think it's really important before you. You go into any kind of employment conversation is to know what those drivers. Are you have to be able to speak clearly concisely about what matters to you with right? If you don't know what you're looking for. That's gonna show through. I mean, in our breakfast club meeting, we've had people come in, and, and we ask at the beginning, okay, what's your story, and we have them start talking about what they've done in the past with they're looking for in the future. And neither of us get and ideas of what they actually want to do. And I'm I'm hard pressed to help someone who is just standing there. Wait at saying, tell me what to do. I can't. If someone doesn't have the ability to talk at least about, what is it that they're working on in the moment...