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The Action Catalyst

CLIP: To Switch or Not To Switch

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

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Author, speaker, and certification expert Pamela Slim covers the contentious topic of whether or not switching jobs and companies regularly REALLY makes a difference to your appeal in the job market, and towards your goals overall.Hear Pamela's full interview in Episode 44 of The Action Catalyst.

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0.329 - 20.095 Pamela Slim

Salespeople are kind of classically known for switching companies. What is your opinion on that? Do you think it's negative to be switching all the time? Yeah, I think there's two things. The first is, for my definition of body of work, it's really as you look at the course of your life, what are all the things that you really want to create, contribute, affect, and impact?

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20.715 - 30.678 Pamela Slim

That's the one decision that you would make is really what is that body of work that you want to create based on things that are really important to you using your skills and your strengths.

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31.158 - 51.304 Pamela Slim

And so with that as a definition, I don't just mean concrete things like helping to build organizations through sales, which is a hugely important skill set which salespeople have, but it's also in what are the intangible ways in which you affect the world? How are you as a parent, as a community member, as a spouse, you know, what are you really contributing?

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51.344 - 73.08 Pamela Slim

What's your emotional wake that you leave as you really walk through the world? And is it something that you feel proud of and that you really leave as a legacy? So when you think about it from that perspective, to move around or not move around, to me, it's really addressed by why. And sometimes you can be pursuing what seems to be the next great opportunity. I really was fortunate.

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73.12 - 91.818 Pamela Slim

I spent about three years with a client who had a sales training business. So I've worked with hundreds and hundreds of salespeople who I think happened to be some of the most interesting, flexible, positive people. I really like it. I love the skill set. I love the fact that the skill set is really flexible and that you do have to get enthusiastic and care about what you're doing.

91.858 - 114.297 Pamela Slim

Really infuse yourself in a culture, in a company, in order to be able to really sell effectively. And so it is the kind of skill set of any, I think, that are out there. that can be really effective to be moving in different places. But my question would be, are you just jumping to what seems to be the next great opportunity because of maybe a financial outcome?

114.837 - 128.566 Pamela Slim

Or are you conscious about what it is that you want to create? Are you giving yourself enough time in each role to really be building that which you want to build? And there's always you always have the capacity, I think, to tell a compelling story.

129.107 - 141.854 Pamela Slim

But the reality is, you know, in terms of how you might sell yourself to somebody or you might explain your history and how it is that you've moved through many different positions. I think the important thing to remember is that your work really does speak for you.

142.254 - 160.188 Pamela Slim

So if you truly have had integrity in your roles, you've done a great job, you've developed really powerful relationships, and you move on, that's the kind of enduring legacy that your work really speaks for. And that can't be spun. That's what other people are going to be talking about, you know, when they talk about you. And

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