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#124 - Career Leap founder Misha Rubin explains how mapping out your values and strengths can help you identify the criteria that your next role needs to fulfill.

What you'll learn

• [01:35] Misha discusses his career background and how and why he created The Career Leap Method.
• [05:16] Misha talks about his involvement in music and how it helps fulfill him.
• [07:12] The two common traps to avoid when job searching.
• [09:42] How to manage your career by curating the opportunities which present themselves.
• [12:57] Why you should focus on your unique career criteria before looking at salary.
• [14:30] The four aspects of your unique career criteria: values, strengths, motivations and interpersonal profile.
• [19:31] How the four aspects align and why you should look out for any conflict.
• [20:44] Creating a comprehensive career leap map that includes ideas of what your next step might be.
• [23:51] The research you can carry out to explore the different directions you can go in.
• [25:18] How to filter down your options and identify what is calling you.
• [27:19] Why it’s worth waiting until the end of the exercise before looking at the compromises you might need to make.
• [30:34] Figuring out your direction and taking a series of small steps towards it.
• [31:40] How often you should review and edit your career leap map.
• [33:10] How you can take the first steps in exploring a change in your career.

Resources mentioned in this episode (some of these are affiliate links and we may get a commission in the event that you make a purchase - this helps us to cover our expenses and is at no additional cost to you):

• Tiny Habits, BJ Fogg
• Two exercises to help you find career happiness

For the show notes for this episode, including a full transcript and links to all the resources mentioned, visit:

https://changeworklife.com/how-to-choose-your-next-job/

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