5 Thinkers Job Hunters Should Listen To
Reading blogs on sites like this is fine for job hunters giving you the lay of the land in the industry. You’ll get the tips on the job search, tricks on writing your CV and insights on what’s going on in banking.
But it’s also vitally important to get a sense of the world beyond finance. No one can predict the future but there are many people out there that have first-rate insights that can help job hunters. This counts for whether you are based in Hong Kong, Singapore, London or Timbuktu.
Let’s face it, the skills and education that got you to where you are now may not be relevant in five years’ time.
Whole industries would have come and gone by then. The best way to prepare yourself for what the world has to offer is to listen to thinkers that bring a different perspective to our evolution and what it might mean for our jobs.
Here are some leading lights that you should be listening to as part of your job search:
Seth Godin
Job hunter takes note. Godin is sometimes known as ‘the ultimate entrepreneur for the information age’. In addition, he’s an American writer and has written around 17 books, addressing various aspects of marketing, advertising, business venturing and leadership.
Business Week named his ‘Linchpin’ book among its “20 of the best books by the most influential thinkers in business” in 2015. He offers a game-changing approach to marketing, sales, and advertising. And if you join his mailing list you’ll receive an insightful email from him every single day.
Yuval Noah Harari
He’s the highest brow for job hunters on this list with accolades the length of your arm.
At the same time, he even got a Ph.D. from Oxford. On top of that, he’s a historian, philosopher and best-selling author of ‘Sapiens’ and ‘Homo Deus’.
His writings examine free will, consciousness and intelligence. It’s pretty deep but absolutely insightful stuff.
Peter Diamandis
Job hunters take note. He’s an engineer, physician and entrepreneur best known for being founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, co-founder and executive chairman of Singularity University and coauthor of The New York Times bestseller ‘Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think’.
This nonfiction work discusses the potential for exponential technology and three other emerging market forces to significantly raise global standards of living within the next 25 years. He also wrote ‘BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World’, providing analysis and instruction for entrepreneurs interested in learning about exponential technologies, moonshot thinking and crowdsourcing.
Marshall Goldsmith
He is America’s preeminent executive coach and well worth job hunters listening to. He was the 2015 Thinkers 50 award winner as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker.
At the same time, he is one of a select few consultants who have been asked to work with more than 150 CEOs in the world’s top corporation. The American Management Association named Marshall one of fifty great thinkers and business leaders who have impacted the field of management. Check out ‘Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts–Becoming the Person You Want to Be‘.
Scott Adams
He’s an interesting one for job hunters. You might know him as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip. But he’s also the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business.
On top of that, he’s a much deeper thinker than a lot of people realize. If you like to think politics, check out ‘Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter‘.
