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<blockquote data-quote="George Maxwell" data-source="post: 89971" data-attributes="member: 17165">Hi [USER=17355]@TCinpipeline[/USER],This is a tricky question and a really valuable discussion to have on the forum. Thank you for starting it!You may have done this already. So forgive me if this is stating the obvious. However, personally, one thing which I did (as a process) was to write down the experiences I have really enjoyed in the past. I then isolated these experiences, and broke them down into what it was about those experiences that motivated and/or invigorated me. Sometimes it was slightly abstract: i.e., the pace of the experience, or being forced to think analytically, other times it was more concrete, e.g., I am interested in X industry. I then re-aligned my approach in light of these themes (both in terms of the types of firm I applied to, but also the way I wrote my applications). Looking back, it was actively reflecting on what I wanted in my career, which allowed me to focus on the skills that I felt made me a strong candidate, that accelerated my application successes. Also I found that using my past applications as inspiration (rather than as something to rewrite) was helpful. I drew ideas from them, but always started new applications from scratch. Personally I felt that writing fresh applications was more efficient (and resulted in a better (i.e., clearer and more interesting) end product).Have you developed any (perhaps more concrete) strategies? Interested to hear from others in the community on this too!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="George Maxwell, post: 89971, member: 17165"] Hi [USER=17355]@TCinpipeline[/USER], This is a tricky question and a really valuable discussion to have on the forum. Thank you for starting it! You may have done this already. So forgive me if this is stating the obvious. However, personally, one thing which I did (as a process) was to write down the experiences I have really enjoyed in the past. I then isolated these experiences, and broke them down into [I]what[/I] it was about [I]those[/I] experiences that motivated and/or invigorated me. Sometimes it was slightly abstract: i.e., the pace of the experience, or being forced to think analytically, other times it was more concrete, e.g., I am interested in X industry. I then re-aligned my approach in light of these themes (both in terms of the types of firm I applied to, but also the way I wrote my applications). Looking back, it was actively [I]reflecting[/I] on what I wanted in my career, which allowed me to focus on the skills that I felt made me a strong candidate, that accelerated my application successes. Also I found that using my past applications as [I]inspiration[/I] (rather than as something to rewrite) was helpful. I drew ideas from them, but always started new applications from scratch. Personally I felt that writing fresh applications was more efficient (and resulted in a better (i.e., clearer and more interesting) end product). Have you developed any (perhaps more concrete) strategies? Interested to hear from others in the community on this too! [/QUOTE]

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