![Joy Bogar<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\nWhen working with customers, I want to know what their ideal outcome is. What are they looking for? And hopefully I can avoid the pitfall of them telling me “I want a power drill!” when in reality they want “a hole” (or series of holes). <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nSo what is my ideal outcome? I am looking for my next dream job. And that “dream job” could easily take multiple forms.<\/p>\n\nShort term consulting gig <\/li>\nFull time employment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBut… if type of employment isn’t critical for my “dream job”, then what is important?<\/p>\n\nWorking on projects and products that make a difference in the world.<\/li>\nWorking on projects and products where I can make a significant contribution.<\/li>\nWorking on projects where I can grow and refine my skillset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe job can range from working on a single short term project to working full time on a key feature of a larger product that spans a much longer time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFlip the Script<\/h3>\nNow the goal becomes how to captivate the hiring manager enough to start a conversation. Instead of what *I* want, what does the hiring manager (and the rest of the hiring stakeholder team) want?<\/p>\nI need to be able to speak to multiple stakeholders with the same set of resources.<\/p>\n\nThe resume\/r\u00e9sum\u00e9\/resum\u00e9<\/a> needs to “captivate” the Applicant Tracking System<\/li>\nThe resume needs to interest either the recruiter and\/or hiring manager enough to read through my resume (and put it on the “keep” pile).<\/li>\nHave some method of enticing the reader to visit my website to do a deeper dive (and where different stakeholders can deep dive into their areas of interest).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIt is my hope that the QR code on the resume will be enticing enough for people to want to click on it. The QR code image will also be a hyperlink in case someone is viewing the PDF. Perhaps I can create a campaign to track the QR code clicks (ticket<\/a> added to my trello<\/a> board).<\/p>\nThe actual content of the resume are beyond the scope of *this* series of blog posts, however.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When working with customers, I want to know what their ideal outcome is. What are they looking for? And hopefully I can avoid the pitfall of them telling me “I<\/p>\nRead More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwicker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/en\/wiki\/File:Create_a_Personal_Journal1.jpg\"){kind=link}
When working with customers, I want to know what their ideal outcome is. What are they looking for? And hopefully I can avoid the pitfall of them telling me “I want a power drill!” when in reality they want “a hole” (or series of holes). <\/p>\n
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So what is my ideal outcome? I am looking for my next dream job. And that “dream job” could easily take multiple forms.<\/p>\n
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- Short term consulting gig <\/li>\n
- Full time employment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
But… if type of employment isn’t critical for my “dream job”, then what is important?<\/p>\n
- \n
- Working on projects and products that make a difference in the world.<\/li>\n
- Working on projects and products where I can make a significant contribution.<\/li>\n
- Working on projects where I can grow and refine my skillset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The job can range from working on a single short term project to working full time on a key feature of a larger product that spans a much longer time. <\/p>\n
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\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFlip the Script<\/h3>\n
Now the goal becomes how to captivate the hiring manager enough to start a conversation. Instead of what *I* want, what does the hiring manager (and the rest of the hiring stakeholder team) want?<\/p>\n
I need to be able to speak to multiple stakeholders with the same set of resources.<\/p>\n
- \n
- The resume\/r\u00e9sum\u00e9\/resum\u00e9<\/a> needs to “captivate” the Applicant Tracking System<\/li>\n
- The resume needs to interest either the recruiter and\/or hiring manager enough to read through my resume (and put it on the “keep” pile).<\/li>\n
- Have some method of enticing the reader to visit my website to do a deeper dive (and where different stakeholders can deep dive into their areas of interest).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It is my hope that the QR code on the resume will be enticing enough for people to want to click on it. The QR code image will also be a hyperlink in case someone is viewing the PDF. Perhaps I can create a campaign to track the QR code clicks (ticket<\/a> added to my trello<\/a> board).<\/p>\n
The actual content of the resume are beyond the scope of *this* series of blog posts, however.<\/p>\n
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When working with customers, I want to know what their ideal outcome is. What are they looking for? And hopefully I can avoid the pitfall of them telling me “I<\/p>\n
- The resume\/r\u00e9sum\u00e9\/resum\u00e9<\/a> needs to “captivate” the Applicant Tracking System<\/li>\n