I’d also guess that for most people they should be pushing themselves to apply for more roles than they’d naturally be inclined to.
Fairly minor thing in a big comment, but I’m curious about whether this works if people do this. My own limited experience, and that of a few friends, is that we only got the jobs/roles we really wanted in the end. I wonder if this is because we lacked intrinsic motivation and were probably obviously terrible candidates for the things we were trying ourselves excited for. In my case, I tried to be a management consultant after I did my postgrad and only applied for PhDs because I bombed at that (and everything else I applied for).
One data point: I recently got a job which, at the time I initially applied for it, I didn’t really want (as I went through the interview process and especially now that I’ve started, I like it more than I thought I would based on the job posting alone).
Fairly minor thing in a big comment, but I’m curious about whether this works if people do this. My own limited experience, and that of a few friends, is that we only got the jobs/roles we really wanted in the end. I wonder if this is because we lacked intrinsic motivation and were probably obviously terrible candidates for the things we were trying ourselves excited for. In my case, I tried to be a management consultant after I did my postgrad and only applied for PhDs because I bombed at that (and everything else I applied for).
One data point: I recently got a job which, at the time I initially applied for it, I didn’t really want (as I went through the interview process and especially now that I’ve started, I like it more than I thought I would based on the job posting alone).