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187. Experimenting, Failing, and Finding Your Job Fit - Catalyze Your Career

2025/2/20
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Matt Abrahams: 我认为我们可以将职业生涯视为一系列需要检验的假设，通过实验来找到最适合自己的职业。 Dorie Clark: 我认为拥有长期职业愿景很重要，但更重要的是将其视为“临时假设”。因为现实情况会变化，我们需要灵活应对机遇和挑战。我们需要定期（例如每季度）进行职业回顾，评估当前职业道路是否符合长期目标，并根据需要调整计划。同时，每周也要检查日程安排，确保时间用于有益于职业发展的活动。寻找适合自己的职业需要积极主动地测试假设，例如进行信息访谈、实习、志愿工作或参与目标项目，并快速找出工作中不适合自己的部分。职业转型应视为一种习惯，而非一次性事件，持续学习新技能，尝试新事物，保持灵活性和适应性。了解不熟悉的职业路径或行业，可以通过阅读相关书籍、进行信息访谈以及利用LinkedIn等平台寻找相关人士进行交流来学习。评估现有技能在不同角色和行业中的可转移性，需要主动向他人展示技能的可转移性，因为他人可能无法自行识别。在LinkedIn等平台上打造个人品牌，需要重复强调职业转型后的新方向，让更多人了解你的新目标和技能。

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It's important to have a long-term vision, but it shouldn't be rigid. Instead, view your career as a series of experiments, testing and adapting as you go. Informational interviews and small experiments help determine career fit.
  • Long-term vision is important but should be flexible.
  • View career as a series of testable hypotheses.
  • Informational interviews and small experiments are valuable tools.

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Rethink career success by testing, adapting, and staying open to unexpected opportunities.

Career planning isn’t as straightforward as we often assume—but according to Dorie Clark), that’s actually a good thing. Instead of following a rigid path, she believes we should be “treating our careers like a series of experiments”—testing, iterating, and staying open to unexpected opportunities."People assume they need to have everything mapped out for the next twenty years," Clark explains. "But in reality, careers are built through testing, learning, and adapting—just like a scientific hypothesis."As a bestselling author and career strategist, Clark has spent years studying how professionals can future-proof their careers in an unpredictable world. She shares why informational interviews, LinkedIn strategy, and quarterly career check-ins are essential tools for anyone looking to make a career shift. “You don’t want to be so mired in your plan that you can’t take advantage of unexpected opportunities,” she says.In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart), Clark joins host Matt Abrahams to challenge traditional career advice and explore strategic personal branding, the power of weak ties in networking, and why “reinvention isn’t a one-time event—it’s a habit.”

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Chapters:

  • (00:00) - Introduction

  • (00:59) - The Importance of Long-Term Career Vision

  • (02:31) - Testing Your Career Hypothesis

  • (04:05) - Being Proactive in Your Career

  • (06:35) - Reinvention: Small vs. Big Career Changes

  • (09:08) - How to Explore a New Industry

  • (10:54) - Transferring Skills to New Careers

  • (12:54) - Optimizing Your Personal Brand

  • (16:07) - Best Career Advice Received

  • (18:07) - Career Regrets & Lessons

  • (19:50) - Conclusion

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This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn. Explore your job potential at Linkedin.com/jobs).