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When the market gets hard, the instinct is to do more: more applications, more platforms, more volume. It feels like progress because it feels like motion. It isn’t.
A hundred applications to loosely-relevant roles produces less than fifteen applications to employers where you actually fit on all three axes
By the time most people feel ready to progress, they realise they’ve never built the relationships that would actually help them do it. Fixing that under time pressure rarely works. These relationships take deliberate nurturing, well before you need them.
Most people treat job searching like a second job. It isn't. It's an infrastructure problem. Build the system once, and it runs while you focus on the work in front of you.
Most people treat job searching like a second job. It isn't. It's an infrastructure problem. Build the system once, and it runs while you focus on the work in front of you.
Most of The Career Remix is about navigating careers inside organizations: finding the right fit, the right team, the right path. But what if the career you want doesn’t exist yet? What if you feel drawn to build it yourself?
If work looks fine on paper but feels heavy, this may not be burnout. It’s often misalignment. Most people choose jobs based on title, pay, and future options. What gets missed are three factors that quietly shape how work actually feels.
Most of The Career Remix is about navigating careers inside organizations: finding the right fit, the right team, the right path. But what if the career you want doesn’t exist yet? What if you feel drawn to build it yourself?