As I wrote in an earlier post, I'd been job hunting recently.
Luckily I got an offer from a company I liked, and decided to work there.
This time I want to write about the two things I mainly thought about during the search.
① Value
What gets evaluated in a job search, I think, is skills and thinking.
Skills are capability including experience — what can this person concretely do?
Thinking is what kind of person they are — can they think in ways that produce results in a new environment?
Gojo & Company CFO Katada has a blog post saying value splits into credit and trust — and that maps exactly onto this.
In other words, [credit = "present value based on track record"] and [trust = "present value looking ahead to the future"].
The latter can be rephrased as how coachable someone is, and how autonomously they can learn in unknown environments and experiences.
This time I wanted a different role and industry from before the move, so the watershed was conveying credit accurately, then getting them to feel trust through interview discussions.
In the end I got an offer from a company I wanted — but I was rejected by several others.
I see those as rejects on the credit axis because the role differed, so I could accept that as how things stand.
② Phase transition
I was thinking about what phase transitions are happening in the world right now.
In short: what has decisively changed? And business moves according to those decisively changed rules. What is that?
In business the game-changer is often "technology," but not only that.
Phase transitions are basically macro trends, so they're fairly clear. At least, I don't think they're things only a tiny set of specialists notice.
Whether an industry declines is about whether it rides these clear macro shifts.
Talk like this often conjures a gambling image — complex, momentary decisions in a constantly changing tornado — but that shouldn't be it.
Nobody knows the future. It's not that kind of gamble; for now you need to move onto the field where the phase transition has already happened.
What you do there is a question for after you've moved.
Phase transitions are happening in many places. Encompassing all of them isn't realistic.
Most people don't move. Not because they're looking away — because they don't need to. Only those who must adapt to change need to change. Eventually, sooner or later, everyone changes.
Those two were mainly what I was thinking.
They were vaguely my axis, so when the offer came I didn't hesitate.
At least it went better than vaguely optimizing for growth, skills, discretion, and compensation. (In the end those will be satisfied too.)
Next I'm joining an IT venture based in a certain country. Role and industry both change, and the culture is completely different from my last job — so it'll be challenging, but I'll manage somehow.
Rereading my previous post about job hunting, it ended with a recklessly positive closer — "Anyway, my job change will go well. I'll do my best." — which made me laugh a little.
Anyway, I'm glad it worked out.
© 2021 ZUUHE