Hey, college student! Do you ever find yourself asking the question - What career
is right for me? - Yeah, you're not alone. And in this video I am going to give you
a simple framework to test out your interests and then translate that into a
career path that you can get excited about. Sound good?
Let's go! Hey there! I'm Jenna Rein from theinternhustle.com and this is
Initiative Muscle Monday. Helping you to start each week with an intentional step
toward a successful future. Let's do this! Okay, so if you're a college student, up
until this point your life has been pretty prescribed. And when you're in
college, outside of picking your major, your day-to-day is pretty much laid out
for you. You go to class, you participate in some extracurriculars, maybe on the
weekend you cheer on your football team. I mean you know how to be a college
student. Then one day it hits you...you have no
idea how to do this thing called life once you graduate. What do you want to do
when you graduate? You start to feel the pressure of college graduation closing
in on you. You say "what is the right career for me?" and you start obsessing
over your future career path. Or in this case...the lack thereof. And I get it. These
are big questions because your career is going to play a big role in your life.
You are going to spend a lot of time at work and you want to be happy, and
fulfilled, and successful, and make an impact...all the things. You want to make
the right career decision for you. One thing I want to point out before we get
started is that your career path is an evolution. You can't, and you won't, have
it all figured out before you graduate from college. And you don't need to. What
I'm sharing with you today is a three step framework to make the task of
kicking off your career path a little bit easier to wrap your head around. But
let's not go too far without learning where you're from! If you are a college
student, a recent grad or just a proud alumni, go ahead and give your school a
shout-out in the comments below. Okay so let's just start with painting the
picture -- All of the endless career opportunities out there can seem like a
large body of water with no end in sight. You need a way to navigate through these
possibilities and land on a good fit for you. But where do you start?
Step number one: Identify an interest. So let's go back to our endless sea of
possibilities and pretend you're on a ship sailing through it. You need to
pick a destination to explore. You need to start by picking one interest (just
one). Staying focused on this interest is going to keep you from drifting further
away to sea. So I don't care if society is telling you to do one thing because
you majored in this, or you feel like you need to compete with friends out there
and have the most successful position when you graduate. Keep your focus on
your one interest. Again, that's where we're gonna start,
that's our north star, that's the destination. I'm going to show you how
this worked with my own personal journey as a college student, because I too, was
once trying to figure out what the heck I was going to do when I graduated. Now
you're going to have more than one interest... I sure did. But I started with one that
shined brighter than the rest, and that was sports. I love sports. And I thought,
just plain and simple, how cool would it be to work in professional sports?! Now
what exactly was I going to do in professional sports?
I didn't know yet. But I love sports, I wanted to work in professional sports...
that's where I'm starting. Step number two: Explore a potential path. OK, so back
to our exploration at sea...you're still out at sea, but now you have a
destination in sight. But if we're being honest, your destination is hazy at best.
You still have to dig in a little bit deeper and figure out what it actually
is about that interest that you want to pursue as a potential career path. What
might be the best path to get you to your destination? Now the goal here is to
identify and explore a path quickly. You want to learn if this is an interest you
actually want to pursue, or if you should pivot and move on to something else that
excites and fulfills you more. There's no need to spend a lot of time and energy
navigating the waters to only end up in a destination that doesn't serve you. So
if you recall, I wanted to work in professional sports. And that can go in so
many ways...there are hundreds of professional opportunities in
professional sports. I mean, sports broadcasting, league
operations, sports medicine, athletic performance,
sports management. You get the idea. I had to quickly drill down and get a sense of
what excited me the most. What path excited me the most? For me personally, I
grew up surrounded by elite athletes. I had a father who was a head wrestling
coach at a major university, I was a competitive gymnast myself, so athletic
performance just always fascinated me. So I decided to start there. But from there,
I had to really narrow it down and see what type of athletic performance work
did I gravitate towards. So there were a few things I did. I went to good old
Google and I just started looking up athletic performance jobs in
professional sports. When I actually dug in on my own a little bit, I realized
that I'm much more interested in helping athletes train to become their best than
rehabbing them from an injury down the line. So that was easy, I eliminated
athletic trainer and I eliminated physical therapists from what I was interested in.
The next option was a sports nutritionist. That's definitely helping
an athlete become their best. But if I'm being really honest, I love Taco Bell way
too much to be giving athletes advice on what they should or shouldn't be putting
into their bodies. That one was out. So then it really kept narrowing
things down for me, and I finally landed on strength and conditioning coach, or a
physical performance coach. So from there, after I learned a little bit more about
those roles by researching things online, and reading books, and just learning more
and more about those specific professions...I then looked to see who do
I know? Who can I talk to, whether it's a friend or a family member or maybe it's
a friend of a family member, that is already in this profession that would be
able to give me some unique insights and just kind of continue to help me as I'm
going through this process? And so I reached out for a couple informational
interviews. And it was those informational interviews (one of them
actually) that led to my first internship. And this is where I really got to see
for myself, firsthand, what this profession would be like. I also have to
ask myself - Am I still interested in this? And that's what takes you to step number
three in the framework: Evaluate your experience. Well depending on your
findings, you're going to actually reach one of two outcomes: You'll learn that
you are in fact interested, and you're excited about pursuing this
career path for now, or you'll learn that you're not in fact that interested, and
it's time to pivot and pick a new destination. And the journey actually is
easier in this one too, because you've done it before. You've actually built up
a valuable skill set in exploration, and you kept distractions at bay. I've
personally experienced both of these outcomes in my journey. And so in the
case of my first internship, it opened the door and gave me exposure to
training athletes...which is what I really wanted to do. However, if we go back to
step one and we remember what my interest was, it was working with
professional athletes. And so I made it my goal to land my next internship,
somehow, training athletes in professional sports. But then it was
actually with my second internship that I realized "oh, it's time for me to pivot.
This might not actually be what I thought it was going to be." While I had an
amazing opportunity to intern in professional sports, in a training
capacity, which is exactly what I had an interest in doing -- I learned it wasn't
really going to fulfill me for my long-term career. And I had picked up new interests
...still in professional sports but I learned I wanted to maybe be on the
sports management side. After going back to step number two, and doing some
research and some outreach to connections that I had made in my
previous internships, I realized I had a pretty solid connection to someone at a
sports agency. And so that's ultimately what I did -- I landed my third internship
at a sports agency. And ultimately, it was all of these different experiences that
led me to the perfect job for me when I graduated. A job I didn't even know
existed. But I wouldn't have gotten there had I not exposed myself to things that
interested me, and learned along the way what I did and didn't like. And so while
it's not going to be the same path for everyone, everyone can start by taking
action now. And it's those small consistent steps forward that are going to
open your mind, open the doors to new opportunities, and get you one step
closer to answering the question -- What is the right career for me? Because here's
the thing, I want you to find something that excites you. I know how good that
feels. And if there's one thing I can tell you, it really just comes down to
your action. If you put these three steps into play,
your actions become a lot more focused, and you don't have to be distracted by
everything else that's going on out there. But action definitely beats
flailing around and whining that you don't know what you're supposed to do
when you graduate. Or perhaps even taking something that you're not excited about,
and you end up loathing, because you just needed to get a job out of college.
Action equals results. And it's going to set you up for success going forward.
Just remember to identify an interest, explore a path, and then evaluate your
experience. Rinse and repeat. I hope you enjoyed this
video and my simple three-step framework to helping you navigate the journey that
is the beginning of your career. It's such an exciting time. I know it can seem
scary, but just embrace it, because you have a whole career ahead of you and
this is the very start where you get to kind of make it your own and really what
you want it to be. If you liked this video, go ahead and hit subscribe below, leave a
comment, share it out with a friend, and check the description for some
additional resources that will be helpful to you on your journey. Thank you
so much for watching, and I'll see you back next week for another Initiative
Muscle Monday.
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