The Career Builder's Podcast

Trial & Error at Work

Episode Summary

Do you find yourself constantly getting stuck and not taking action? Or getting stuck doing the same thing and expecting different results? Trial and error is likely the solution to your problem.

Episode Notes

Topics Covered

• Using Trial & Error in your Objective, Strategy and Tactics
• Trial and error is an approach to solve problems
• Using an educated guess as a starting point
• Can you experience what a particular job would be like before starting it?
• How Minority Report would resemble life without trial & error
• Perfectionism and fear of failure can hold you back
• Innovation comes from failure
• "The Dip" by Seth Godin
• Farming vs Hunting in your career
• How long you should stay with something you're trying
• The role of reflection
• Internal and External trial and error
• A/B testing in your job search
• Trial & iterate
• How sports exemplify the trial & iterate process
• Interviewing, practice, and failure
• The worst and best thing that can happen
• Utilizing a growth mindset
• The perfect ratio of research to action
• Where to use trial & error
• A dating analogy
• Tell us your trials and your errors!