18 April 2018

50 Mini-Steps to Landing a Job and Advancing in Your Career


Do thoughts about your career path keep you awake at night? Maybe you are feeling suffocated in a dead-end job, or looking for a career change? You already have access to many job search tools to help with that, but let’s look at another tool that you may find helpful.

50 Ways to Get a Job is a website and a career planner (also a book) rolled into one. The logic behind the site is to make you take a non-linear approach to your job hunt. The end goal is that it will help you take the next step when you are unsure about the foothold.

50 Ways to Get a Job

The website greets you with colorful tiles that stand for different stages in any career. You could be a beginner in the job market or someone who is stuck in a career limbo. Click the right tile and see the steps you can take to boost your situation.

For instance, right now I am at a stage where Learning New Skills is important to sharpen the ax. The wizard gives me five options to try out:

  1. Make a List of Your Skills
  2. Make a List of What You Want to Learn
  3. Create a Course Pack
  4. Take a Course Outside School
  5. Talk to a Company You Do Not Know

50 Ways to Get a Job

Click on any of the respective tiles and it will open up a page with the action steps you can take to push forward. You can mark the step as done or set a reminder with the help of the box at the bottom. Or share the suggestions with a friend.

The 50 Ways to Get a Job steps are a bundle of ideas. Each of them will prompt you to ask questions about yourself. Treat them as exercises or experiments and break the mold of a normal (and boring) job hunt.


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