Why you need to understand your story

This piece of job advice is for everybody. Before you even start applying to any jobs (ideally by networking and reaching out to recruiters), you need to know your story.

That means knowing how you started, how you got to where you are now, and what connects your work history together. Essentially, you can't see yourself as a collection of tasks that you've completed. You have skills, approaches, and other valuable assets that you bring to the table, and you need to be able to articulate them.

Your next interviewers may not ask you the following questions exactly, but you need to be able to address them:

What kind of thinker are you?

In what ways are you excited to grow even more?

What can you provide to a team?

What's your problem-solving process?

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

What does success look like to you?

What talents have you cultivated throughout your career?

What accomplishments are you most proud of?

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