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Stop Applying First: Start Mapping the Work You Want to Do
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Stop Applying First: Start Mapping the Work You Want to Do

Every job search starts by typing a title into a search box, and that's where most of them go wrong. Titles fail in both directions: the same label covers wildly different jobs, and the same work hides behind four different labels. Start with the work instead. Name the problem you're qualified and motivated to solve, read organizations for the signals that they have it, and change your outreach from "Are you hiring?" to "Here's how I may be able to help."

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