Chapter 27. Narrowing Your Choices Is Easier Than You Think

Although narrowing your choices is a very personal process—and leads to very important career decisions—it can be boiled down to three basic steps:

  1. Identify the consistent themes from all the preliminary exercises.

  2. Create an employer wish list that includes all of the characteristics of an ideal company to work for.

  3. Create the dream job description that matches the criteria you discovered in the preliminary exercises.

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