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Ideal Job Description

Your concrete aim — the target you actually want to hit.

1One honest line per step. Sketch quality. Invented job titles encouraged — nobody is grading the spelling.
2Stuck? Don't stare at the blank page. Every step names where to flip back to. This binder is a connected machine.
3Expect to change it. The market gets a vote, and it votes soon. That's the design, not a defect.
What this tool is

Your concrete aim — the job target. It takes the abstract ideas, vague aspirations, and subconscious drivers from your design work and states them plainly enough to shoot at. It's built to be fluid: you'll refine it against real market feedback, then refine it again. Everything here is sketching.

You're done for now when

Every step has one honest line — a sketch, not a spec. That's the whole assignment. A finished job description at this stage would be a guess wearing a suit; the market research ahead is what earns it the details. If you only get through Step 1 today, you have a target your brain can see. That counts.

Step 1

Title & Summary

The baseline parameters. Lower the activation energy and give your brain a target it can actually see. Be creative with the title — you're allowed to invent one that doesn't exist yet.

Stuck? Flip back to: Workbook — Vision Career Plan — Direction
Step 2

Responsibilities & Activities

What you actually do all day — not a job posting copied off the internet. The test: would you recognize this Tuesday as a good one?

Stuck? Flip back to: Workbook — What Drives You (Lights me up)

Don't copy and paste a generic description. Your highest-energy activity is the one worth building the target around.

Step 3

Environment & Culture

The conditions the work happens in. Most roles don't fail on the tasks — they fail here.

Stuck? Flip back to: Workbook — What Drives You (value translations)
Step 4

Compensation, Benefits & Lifestyle

The price of the transaction, and the life it has to fund. Write real numbers — a floor you can't name isn't a floor.

Stuck? Flip back to: Career Plan — Wants & Needs

This step designs the target — it isn't the number you announce. Those terms stay in your back pocket until they've fallen in love with your offer.

Step 5

Growth & Impact

Success and reward. What does winning look like inside this role, what does it build toward, and who is better off because you did it?

Stuck? Flip back to: Workbook — Vision (the Miracle Question) Career Plan — Horizons
Integration

Alternative Vehicles

The five steps above describe one vehicle. But the point of this tool is the highway — and more than one vehicle can drive down it. Naming the alternatives isn't lowering the bar; it's what turns a high-stakes, all-or-nothing gamble into an engineering problem your brain can stop panicking about.

The highway — my career path direction

One line. Everything below has to keep moving down this road.

Plan AThe target you're designing for — the one above
Plan BStrong alternative or stepping stone — same highway, different vehicle
Plan ZThe floor — pays the bills, keeps you in the ecosystem

Ready, aim, fire — then back on the track. You'll ski fast through the market, stop, re-aim at a narrow target, and fire off one tailored application. This page is the bullseye you look at when you stop.

You can't shoot accurately while you're sprinting. Stop, breathe, aim — then fire.

Get the first draft down today — messy allowed. Then treat it as a living target: real market research refines it, and the feedback loop keeps refining it after that. Bring this and your Career Plan to your session; that's where they get pressure-tested. Your entries save automatically on this device.

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