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Confident job changes and a premortem!


I show you how to make your work performance review a 2-way street — that benefits you as much as your employer.


Most importantly, it helps you make a confident job decision - whether you commit to stay or move into job change mode.


About the author:  Jeff Hulett leads Personal Finance Reimagined, a decision-making and financial education platform. He teaches personal finance at James Madison University and provides personal finance seminars. Check out his book -- Making Choices, Making Money: Your Guide to Making Confident Financial Decisions.


Jeff is a career banker, data scientist, behavioral economist, and choice architect. Jeff has held banking and consulting leadership roles at Wells Fargo, Citibank, KPMG, and IBM.


We all go into job decisions with the best intentions. New employees are excited and anticipate a positive experience. Hiring managers feel good about their hiring decisions and look forward to a positive relationship with the new employee. The honeymoon phase of a new job is great!


But we all know life is dynamic. Both employees' and employers' needs change. The key is updating. To make good job evaluations, the employee needs a process to dynamically update their job perspective. This evaluation needs to be completed in a way that makes decision-making fast, confidence-inspiring, and transparent. The evaluation needs to be both objective and appropriately include emotion.


The proactive job evaluation approach starts with a “premortem."  The premortem approach begins by recalling the criteria for why the job or other decisions were accepted in the first place. If new to the job market, the current state is the anticipated criteria for the new job.


A strong process and decision tools help make the premortem fast, confidence-inspiring, and transparency-enabled.


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