Career Tips: How to Find Your (Potential) Unique Value Proposition


	Career Tips: How to Find Your (Potential) Unique Value Proposition
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11-2-2007 12:26 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/79a326bb-d770-4cce-a307-db4954769297/D65DBB73-5BC6-46A6-A89F-1833EB7A15FD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/" href="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.lifeoptimizer.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><P>To make yourself unique, Dilbert’s <A href="http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html">Career Advice</A> has good advice: <EM>Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things and combine them</EM>. It is this combination that makes you unique.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><STRONG>1. List your passions </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><P><EM>Can you be so absorbed in it that you lose track of time?</EM>
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/">If the answer is yes, then it’s your passion. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><P>List as much of your passions as possible. The more passions you list, the more possible combinations you could get.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><STRONG>2. Choose one passion as the basis </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><STRONG>3. Pair it with other passions and see what ideas you can get </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><P><STRONG>4. Pick the idea which is most promising </STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><EM>In which one do you think you can make the most difference?<BR /></EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><EM>Which one are you most passionate about? </EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><EM>Has the niche been saturated? <BR /></EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><P><STRONG>5. Look at the other passions and find what value-add they may give </STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><STRONG>The next steps</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><EM>Develop the required competences <BR /></EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/09/05/career-tips-how-to-find-your-potential-unique-value-proposition/"><EM>Market your unique value proposition<BR /></EM></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D65DBB73-5BC6-46A6-A89F-1833EB7A15FD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>