Stop treating your career like a solo sport
What is a community? Let’s be honest… a lot of people say “community,” but it doesn’t always feel that way. In my mind, a real community is a group of like-minded people who support, challenge, and grow together. It’s a place where you don’t have to figure everything out on your own. Because here’s the reality… none of us have all the answers. But when we come together, we get a lot closer. This is where this group becomes powerful. This is where we stop treating careers like a solo sport and start treating them like a team effort. What I really want to encourage you to do is this: bring things back to the group. Ideas, strategies, tools, systems, resources. Anything that’s working for you or even something you’re experimenting with. Because this is where crowdsourced knowledge becomes a huge advantage. One idea leads to another. One resource unlocks something for someone else. One small insight can create momentum for the entire group. And that’s exactly what today is about. One of our members, Jake, is currently in a career transition just like many of you. He ran into a frustrating problem during his job search. A lot of job postings are old, sometimes 3–4 weeks or even months old. And by the time you apply, you’re already competing with hundreds of people. So he built something to solve that. He created a tool that helps surface new, recent job postings so you can get in earlier when it actually matters. Now, full transparency, I haven’t personally used it yet, and I don’t know exactly how well it works. But I do know this. It’s the kind of thinking and initiative we want more of in this community. Someone sees a problem, builds a solution, and shares it. Jake is offering it to you all for free to test. So this is where you come in. Go try it, experiment with it, see if it helps you. Then come back and share what worked, what didn’t, and what could be better. Give feedback to the group and give feedback to Jake. (Jake will follow up in the comments section of this post with the link to access it)