The Career Strategy Brief
Vennessa McConkeyA weekly strategic briefing for Directors and VPs who want to be selected - not sidelined. We decode how $150K+ hiring decisions are actually made and how to position yourself with market authority.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 52 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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The Market Is Not Evaluating You the Way You Think It Is
I want you to know…the hiring market didn’t become harder in the way most experienced professionals think it did.
It became harder to interpret and that distinction is quietly destroying the confidence of a lot of capable people right now....
What Repeated Rejection Does to High Performers
Repeated rejection doesn’t just disappoint high performers.
Repeated rejection doesn’t just disappoint high performers.
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You Were Not Supposed to See This.
Most people in this space will not say what I said in that room. That the job market is not hiring the most qualified person.
That experience alone stopped being the currency senior hiring runs on.
That...
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