Job Search
Strategy Planner

Most job searches are reactive. The candidate applies to posted roles, waits, follows up, and repeats. This approach produces results proportional to luck and timing rather than strategy. The questions on this worksheet are designed to surface the elements of a proactive search: what's driving it, where you are right now, what's blocked, and how you're positioning and generating opportunities.

Question 4 - the 6 and 12 month vision - is the one most people skip or answer vaguely. It's also the most important. A clear vision of where you want to be changes how you evaluate opportunities in front of you. Without it, the default is to accept whatever role appears, assess it in isolation, and make a decision with no frame of reference.

The marketing and lead generation questions (7 and 8) are where most professionals discover they have a gap. Most people are competent at their work but have given very little thought to how they communicate their value or how they generate new conversations. The job search accelerates when both questions have concrete answers.

Work through these questions in order. The pattern you'll see across your answers is usually more useful than any individual response.