Bobby MoestaInnovator, Entrepreneur, Professor and Advisor

Job Luck #changecareers #hiring #humanresources #newcareer #jobdescription

14 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Bobby Moesta challenges the common habit of attributing new job opportunities to "luck." He notes that interviewees use the word "luck" in 97% of their responses, which he dislikes because it encourages a passive waiting stance. Moesta argues that career moves are not random but result from a series of causal events—what he calls "dominoes"—that prepare a person to seek and secure a new role. By recognizing these underlying factors, individuals can shift from waiting for luck to actively understanding and influencing the conditions that lead to career change.

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So tell me about your new job. That's how I'd start the conversation. And they would say, oh my God, I was so lucky. The word luck was used literally 97% of the time. Luck is a 4-letter word. Luck is one of those things that I hate because at some point luck can be gratitude, but most people treat luck as if it's just wait for luck. It causes you to wait. And ultimately, when you interview these people, there was no luck involved. It was all caused. And trying to understand what are the dominoes that have to fall in your life to make you ready to look for another job, or to actually be reinvigorated to, to reframe your job, right? And so part of this is actually realizing the causation behind it.