On today's episode, host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli takes us through her tips for making a job search successful by focusing on three distinct areas: your job and career targets, desired work environment, and business reality.

Episode Highlights:

• Focusing a job search can make the process significantly less stressful.
• There are three important components for a successful job search: job and career targets, work environment, and business reality.
• It is worthwhile to take the time and energy to take charge of your own career instead of letting it happen to you.
• Ask yourself questions about what you really want to do, and be open to new ideas that you find exciting and inspiring.
• Sheila suggests using a tool like O*NET Online to find career paths that suit your interests and skills.
• Narrow your job titles or areas down to about 10, and then whittle them down further by investigating whether or not each one fits your values.
• Work environment includes geographic location, whether or not you'd like to work in an office or from home, what the pace of your ideal workplace is, etc.
• Culture is an important factor in work environment as well.
• Business reality is filtering your job and career targets and desired work environment through the lens of practicality.
• Sheila recommends using a salary website like Glassdoor to investigate whether or not a career is financially feasible for you.
• Clarity about your targets will help you speed up your job search.
• Sheila suggests finding 10 companies that have your desired job positions to look at as targets.

3 Key Points:

1. There are three important components for a successful job search: job and career targets, work environment, and business reality.
2. Assessing business reality involves filtering your job and career targets and desired work environment through a practical lens.
3. Focus is vital to making your job search effective.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "A successful job search isn't just about finding a job, it's about finding the right job." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Contact Sheila at [email protected]
• Fast Track Your Job Search: fasttrackyourjobsearch.com
• O*NET Online