I’m having lunch next week with one of our successful job seekers. He was diligent and persevered in implementing our recommendations for customized resumes for each job, networking with a plan, interviewing the right way, and sticking to it, even through rejection. He embraced our suggestions and was pursuing a job as an attorney.
He has worked in the legal field for almost a decade, but wasn’t excited about doing compliance law. His real dream was to pursue the arts, especially music, while serving as an attorney. He found a job advising a hedge fund that acquires music rights. Everyone at the company is connected to music. It was his dream job. He interviewed well and was hired for it! Dream jobs are out there.
He knew what his looked like. Most of us don’t know what a dream job looks like and some of what we imagine as dream jobs don’t turn out to be. It seems that often the impediment to a dream job is the price of it. Most dream jobs require payment in the form of education, experience, and hard work. He paid for it and landed it.