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Hagge: Employers Won't Trust Career Pivoters Without Tangible Proof
“If you're looking to make a career pivot, say you want to work in podcasting, but you've been a financial analyst your whole life, no one's going to trust you that you can do that. They're not going to give you the benefit of the doubt.”
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Hagge: Introspection without practical experimentation undermines successful career pivots
“One issue I see with a ton of people that want to make career pivots is actually sit back and they just think about what they like. They do a lot of self-reflection. They do a lot of kind of looking at their intuition. I'm not anti-self-reflection. You should …”
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Hagge: Answering interview questions in public blog posts builds career pivot credibility
“Think about what questions, if I was trying to make a career pivot, would people ask me to ascertain if I'm right for this role, if it's the right fit for me? And then take those interview questions, put them in a blog post, and write down what your answers wo…”
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Hagge: Entering a new industry without formal training enables greater innovation
“And so when you come into a new industry and you don't have a ton of formal training, you actually have a ton of fresh perspectives. You almost haven't been beaten down by the best practices of that particular role. You haven't been put in the box of what peop…”
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Hagge: Career Pivot Opportunities Come Primarily Through Weak Ties
“All of your first degree connections, all the people you're really close with, those opportunities are already baked in. You're already aware of them. Your weak ties are these people that you have some sort of connection to, but you don't really understand wha…”
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Hagge: Interviewers will never connect your career dots for you
“No one is going to connect the dots in your career except you. And if you're counting on someone when you're sitting across them to have an interview to try to make a career pivot, to understand your career journey, because if you are trying to make a pivot, i…”
