612: How to Find the Perfect Career Fit–An Analytical Approach–with Lindsay Gordon

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Lindsay Gordon reveals how to build and select excellent options for your career.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to get “unstuck” at work

2) How to define success on your terms

3) Why it’s okay to have a “boring” job

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— ABOUT LINDSAY —

Lindsay Gordon is a career coach for analytically minded people who want to stop doing what they think is "right" in their career and start doing what's right for them. She helps people get clarity about what's right for them in a job and why, confident about their skills and abilities, and able to communicate that to interviewers, managers, and colleagues through her program, A Life of Options.

She used to work as a recycled water engineer in Melbourne, Australia before landing at Google, working as technical support for the Google Apps team. After which, she moved into career development at Google before starting her own business. She earned her Bioengineering degree from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. She loves applying her engineering brain to helping people find careers that fit, baking complicated pastries and barbershop singing.

• LinkedIn: Lindsay Gordon

• Website: ALifeofOptions.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Assessment Tool: CliftonStrengths

• Book: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

• Book: Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

• Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

• Book: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

• Book: The Five Minute Journal: A Happier You in 5 Minutes a Day | Original Creator of The Five Minute Journal - Simple Daily Guided Format - Increase Gratitude & Happiness, Life Planner, Gratitude List by Intelligent Change Inc.

• Harvard Project: "Dark Horse: Achieving success through the pursuit of fulfillment"

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.
0:16.1	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 612 with Lindsey Gordon.
0:22.4	Lindsey has some fresh perspectives on how to zero win on your perfect career fits.
0:27.0	You'll learn one, how to get unstuck at work, two, how to define success on your terms,
0:32.6	and three, why it's okay to have a boring job.
0:35.3	So, if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Ahmsby
0:38.5	reference, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep612 as an episode 612, ep612.
0:46.0	It's awesome at your job.com.
0:48.4	And if you'd like summary wisdom from Lindsey in a handy email, you can read in about
0:52.8	three minutes as well as access to the vaults, the archives of all guest wisdom in these
0:59.0	quick summary writeups.
1:00.4	We call that the Gold Nuggets.
1:01.8	That's available at awesometyourjob.com.
1:04.1	You visit them, you can sign up and get access to all those goodies.
1:08.2	Totally free.
1:09.2	That's the Gold Nuggets, but awesometyourjob.com.
1:11.7	Now here's Lindsey's story.
1:12.7	Lindsey Gordon is a career coach for analytically minded people who want to stop doing what they
1:17.3	think is right in their career and start doing what's right for them.
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