This document provides information about how to get the career you want. It discusses common frustrations people experience in their jobs and work environments. It emphasizes the importance of deciding what you want in your career and life, as well as identifying your skills and interests. The document recommends writing daily journal entries, thinking about the problems you solve at work, and taking small steps like discussing career goals with friends. It introduces Human Workplace as a company that helps people take charge of their careers through virtual courses on topics like setting a career direction, writing cover letters focused on solving business problems, and obtaining jobs that match one's interests and skills.

1. How to Get the Career
You Want
A Human Workplace Slide Conversation

2. A lot of people are frustrated at work
Sometimes you have a job that
you love, but it doesn’t pay you
enough money to live on.

3. Your work environment
can drag you down
Sometimes you know right
away when you’re in the
wrong job.
Other times, it takes a while to
realize that the people you’re
working with and for will
never value you.
That’s a harsh realization!

4. When you’re not working,
job-seeking is hard
The recruiting process in most
organizations is broken. It’s
awful!
Job-seekers feel beaten down by
the rigid, inhuman processes and
communication they run into
when they’re looking for a new
job.

5. So what do I do?
How can I get the
career I want and
deserve when I don’t
make the rules?

6. Here’s the good news!
You do make the rules, when it
comes to your own life and
career.
You can break the traditional
job-search rules and get a great
job.
But you have to do something
very important first…

7. You have to decide what you want!
Many people don’t know what
they want. You have to take the
time to decide what you want
in your life and career.
If you don’t do that, then other
people will run your career,
instead of you! That’s no good!
No one knows more about
what’s right for you than you
do!

8. You get to decide…
You get to decide
what career path
you want to follow.
Also, you have to
decide! Otherwise
you’re leaving your
career up to other
people – or no one
at all!

9. Not sure how to choose
your career path?
First, retrace your steps.
What did you enjoy doing
when you were little?
What are you good at?
The world is big.
You don’t have to keep
looking for jobs like the
jobs you’ve already had.

10. You have to pick a career direction
first!
Once you know your
new career direction,
you can brand yourself
for that direction. Then
your resume will make it
clear that you’re
supremely well qualified
for the jobs you want –
even if the jobs you
want are not jobs you’ve
held before.

11. Then what?
Once you’ve chosen a
career direction to focus
on and you’ve branded
yourself for it, your next
step is to answer this
critical question:
“What sort of Business
Pain do I solve in my
work?”

12. What is Business Pain?
Every company and
organization has problems.
You are an expert problem-
solver! What are the
biggest, most annoying and
most expensive problems
you solve in your work?
That’s important to know,
because your ability to solve
Business Pain gives you
power as a job-seeker!

13. Amelia’s Story
Amelia is an Office
Manager. She likes that kind
of work, but she hated her
last job. Then she got laid
off. Amelia asked herself
“What kind of Business Pain
do I solve?” She had never
thought about her
background in terms of
solving pain before.

14. “Wow! I solve a lot of pain!”
Amelia realized that she solves
several different kinds of
Business Pain for her employers.
She keeps her CEO’s schedule
organized and thus relieves his
or her stress and makes sure that
high-priority items don’t get
skipped. She keeps small
problems from getting bigger
and she calms down unhappy
customers before they get so
angry that they stop being
customers!

15. You solve Business Pain, too!
You will talk about the Business
Pain you solve in your Pain
Letters. A Pain Letter is like a
cover letter, but it doesn’t
sound like a traditional cover
letter at all. You’re going to
write Pain Letters and send
them directly to the hiring
managers you want to reach –
through the mail.

16. The Human Approach to Job-Hunting
When you send your Pain
Letters directly to the
department managers you
want to work for, you’ll
avoid the awful Black Hole
recruiting portals that drive
job-seekers crazy!

17. Your muscles are growing!
When you decide to take charge
of your own career, things start
to change in a good way!
You can take baby steps at first.
You can think back over your life
and career and ask “What do I
love to do most? Why can’t I
bring that passion of mine into
my career? Wait – I can!”

18. Give me some baby steps!
Get a journal and write in it every
day!
Write about your dreams and what
you love to do at work and at
home.
Tell a friend of yours about your
secret plan to take charge of your
career!
Think about the question “What
kind of pain do I solve at work?”
Think about what you want in your
life and the rest of your career.

19. What is Human Workplace?
Our company, Human Workplace,
is on a mission to reinvent work for
people.
Our CEO, Liz Ryan (who also draws
these pictures) is a former Fortune
500 HR SVP. Liz saw that the way
most companies hire, train and
lead people is very broken!
We are on a mission to fix what’s
broken.

20. We teach people to take charge of
their own careers
We help folks around
the world get altitude
on their careers and
lives, and step into new
career paths and new
jobs that grow their
flames!

21. How can I learn this stuff?
Learn how to set your new
career direction, how to
write Pain Letters, how to
find your hiring manager so
that you can reach him or
her directly, and tons more
in a Four-Week or 12-Week
Virtual Course from Human
Workplace!

22. What are these virtual courses like?
Human Workplace virtual courses
are self-paced, self-study
programs. Each week you’ll
receive a new lesson via email.
(You can get all four or all 12
lessons at once, if you prefer!)
You’ll work on your lessons as it
suits your schedule best. You
don’t need to be in any particular
place at any special time to
participate. You don’t need to be
online, either.

23. Our new virtual courses begin on
Saturday, September 5th!
Here are just a few of the
50+ Human Workplace
Virtual Courses that have
helped people around the
world step into their power
and get great jobs that
deserve them!

24. Click on each course title to learn
more!
Get the Job You
Deserve – a
quick four-
week course!

25. or one of two in-depth editions!
Get the Job You Deserve –
12-week Standard Edition
or 12-week Advanced
Edition!

26. Not sure about your career direction?
Set Your Career
Direction is a fast
four-week virtual
course.
Reinvention
Roadmap is an in-
depth, 12-week
virtual course.

27. Don’t see the course you’re looking
for?
Download our 2015
Virtual Course Guide
here!

28. Reach us with your questions!
Click here to send us
an email message!

29. Have I really read 29 slides already?
This is the last slide.
Here’s our last
question: are you
ready to step onto
your path?