Chasing The White Rabbit
Join Sid Shah to understand how new life trajectories were created because of taking risks and going down the rabbit hole. Chasing The White Rabbit is a podcast where successful people speak about the journey and circumstances before they decided to take a major risk and how their world changed. In intimate, one-to-one conversations, find out what the other side of the rabbit hole is truly like. Hear how the guest's new realities have resulted in opportunities unimagined, and how their base fundamentals and assumptions have shifted.
Chasing The White Rabbit
#4 Todd Gitlin: A framework to take the uncertainty out of major career decisions
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Sid Shah
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Season 1
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Episode 4
When you’re looking to quit your job to start something big, you can’t take an average approach. Whether you want to be an operator, an investor, an advisor or director, or to lead an organization, Todd Gitlin has a six-dimensional framework you can operate from. Todd is the founder of Safire Partners, an executive search firm focused on early stage and growth companies. In this episode, hear how to put into practice his six-pronged approach for evaluating career options. You’ve got to look at pay, company brand, learning opportunities, relationships, fulfillment and brand legacy. Todd helps to make sense of the risk and uncertainty in switching careers. But don’t forget, going down the rabbit hole is a job in itself!