Cliff Maxwell · 13 min read · Product Discovery
How to figure out your next career move
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Lenny introduces a career navigation approach built with Cliff Maxwell and Bobby Moesta to help you figure out your next move by treating it like a product decision. Drawing on over 1,000 interviews and the Jobs to Be Done framework, it offers a repeatable six-question process to understand yourself, your context, and your best next step amid AI-driven disruption.
Key Takeaways
- Treat your career move as a product and use a repeatable discovery process rather than generic hacks.
- Apply the Jobs to Be Done framework, thinking of yourself as the customer seeking the right opportunity.
- Use the six fundamental questions to clarify progress, quest, what brings out your best work, potential moves, tradeoffs, and whether you can achieve your needs without leaving your current role.
- base insights on a large set of interviews and coaching experiences to ground decisions in real-world patterns.
- In an AI-accelerated job market, focus on selecting problems, people, and environments where you perform at your best.
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