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Strategies for a Successful
Career Pivot
Copyright 2016 All Rights Reserved www.csouffrant.com
Agenda
Part 1
Pattern of Small Moves-
A 3 step tool to help you
understand your life story
and find your patterns
Part 2
Patterns in Action-
A 30 Day Plan to execute a
Career Pivot
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About Me
• 2016 Forbes 30Under30
Entrepreneur
• Director of Startup Grind Dubai
• Founder of Vendedy
Global Speaker:
• Topics: Leadership,
Entrepreneurship and Social
Impact Innovation
• United Nations, TEDx and Dubai
SME World Summit
• 60+ press mentions
• 30+ conferences
• All within a year!!!
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Part 1 Pattern of Small Moves Copyright 2016 All Rights Reserved www.csouffrant.com
The Success Formula Definition- a strong feeling of enthusiasm or Its temporary, elusive and excitement for something or about doing something unpredictable
Patterns are
predictable markers
PATTERNS that tell you a story
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How to Follow Your Patterns
Do:
“ATE”
Challenge
Audit
Test
Execute
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Audit
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Execute
How I did it
1. Sketch Out Plan
2. Started a Blog
3. Launched an
online campaign
4. Competed at pitch
events
5. Became a global
speaker/entrepren
eur
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Test
PATTERNS
Execute
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Patterns in Action
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Audit-Internal Process Audit- External Process
• Go through past transcripts and • Ask family, friends and
highlight the top score classes peers to put one word in a
• Go through past school schedules hat that describes you
and reflect on the activities you anonymously
enjoyed best • Contact peers from past
• Go through your past job roles and jobs/projects and get their
highlight your best moments perspective
Audit Summary
CREATE A MIND MAP with all of this
information or DRAW BUBBLES around
each topic
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Brainstorm
1. Monday- Write down everything you would do on a 3 day vacation
2. Tuesday-Write down 5 items you would take with you if the world was
about to end. Write a paragraph as to why you made each selection. Note-
that you have food, water and shelter already covered.
3. Wednesday-Write down all the things that piss you off. Seriously.
4. Thursday-Write down all of the career paths or things you would do if you
had the chance to do a 1 year sabbatical.
5. Friday-Write down all of your inspirational icons and list out what you
would want to learn from them and why.
6. Saturday-CREATE A MIND MAP with all of this information or DRAW
BUBBLES around each topic
7. Sunday-Do a Venn diagram comparison of the Audit week and Brainstorm
week. Have conversations with others about the patterns.
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Planning
1. Monday- Select up to 3 career paths you want to attempt. Be creative, you can also
make a combination of different interests. Write down all of the resources, people and
milestones you need to get started and be successful for each selection.
2. Tuesday- Check your Linkedin/Facebook/Alumni database. Message at least 50
people and do 15 minute interviews. Offer to write a blog post for their time or ask if you
can shadow their experience.
3. Wednesday-Research at least 10 people who have attempted or successfully lived the
career paths you selected. Take notes on their stories, strategies, etc.
4. Thursday-Register for all events related to your career path on eventbrite +
meetup.com and attend. Meet people and talk about your plans to career switch. See who
can help and who can inspire you during your transition journey month.
5. Friday-Research rotational career programs, fellowships, EIR-apply
6. Saturday-Review the list of resources, people and milestones list you created on
Monday.
7. Sunday- Compare it to the list that your idols, interviewers, and event peers used to
accomplish their goals.
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Test
Pick a month where you will spend 30 days executing on your selected career
path(s). Consider launching a blog to share your journey. Putting it in the
public informs your network which will make it easy for them to help you.
Hack Tip-Put the role that you want on LinkedIn-Your entire network will get
an automatic blast and can react.
Execute:
Quit and Just Do It
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