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A Successful Job Search: It All Starts with Your Plan

8 Steps to Jumpstart a Career Change

by Amy Landry
February 4, 2021
in Leadership and Career
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The old adage, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail” certainly applies to the job search process. Amy Landry discusses how to plan for a successful job search.

Someone shared this post with me recently. In it, Jenny Foss outlines her eight steps to a successful career change, but I feel you can leverage these steps to find a new job just as well. They are:

  • Start with the Why
  • Get Clear on the What
  • Figure Out the What’s it Gonna Take
  • Make an Action Plan
  • Track the Effort
  • Shift Your Brand
  • Mobilize Your Posse
  • Get in Cahoots with the Right People

As I started to read through the post, I found myself saying, yep, I did that, and that, and that and that. Maybe it was all my years managing projects, but one of the very first things I did after being laid off was sit down and plan out my course of action. Before I searched for and applied to a single job posting, I thought about what I wanted to do, why I wanted to do it, how I could make it happen and what I needed to do first, second, etc.

Why make a plan first? Well, why do so many projects fail? They suffer from inadequate or poor planning. I did not want to suffer the same fate. I wanted to succeed in landing a job; for me, that meant I needed to understand both what I wanted to do in my next role and why. By knowing this valuable information, it would help me to know what knowledge to gain, who to connect with, how to promote what I was looking for and what jobs to apply to.

Before you can find something, you have to know what you are looking for (and why).

If you think about it, finding a job is a little bit of luck and strategy, so don’t forget to develop your plan. And of course, don’t forget to track how your plan is going and make adjustments as needed!


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Amy Landry

Amy Landry is an External Oversight and Risk Analyst for Vaya Health, a public managed care organization that manages Medicaid, federal, state, and local funding for services related to mental health, substance use and intellectual/developmental disabilities. Prior to joining Vaya, Amy was a Sr. Compliance and Privacy Specialist for Cardinal Innovations Healthcare and before that she spent 12 years working for multiple ethics and compliance vendors. In 2020, she began writing about her decision to make a career shift from working for a vendor to an in-house compliance post as she wanted to be more involved in the day-to-day running of a compliance program and help an organization live up to its values and ethical principles so it can better prevent and detect misconduct. She continues to contribute posts on leadership, career, and well-being for CCI. Amy is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). She is also the author of a Data Privacy and Security compliance eLearning course with Peak Compliance Training. In her free time, Amy is a huge foodie, avid workout guru and enjoys spending time outdoors with her family.

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