How to position yourself for one specific opportunity
This is for you if one opening sits in front of you: a role, an internal move, a project to lead. The pitch you keep drafting could belong to anyone. What's missing is the angle that makes it yours.
With one opening, the instinct is to prove range: every tool, every past win. But a specific opening has a specific need. The one who wins is the one whose shape fits it: the overlap between what you bring and what the role needs. A general pitch buries it.
Your results hold half of that overlap. Open two sections of your Career Discovery report.
Discovering Your Strengths ranks your top ten and marks the rare ones with a ✦: traits fewer than one in five people carry. Aligned Work Areas shows the job-area cards that fit how you're built.
If you've taken the Superpower profile, it goes deeper on those rare strengths. It ranks every strength by rarity, shows your exact percentile, and names the combinations only you have.
Now do this.
- Name what this opening needs. Not the title, the real thing: the two or three things it takes to do it well. If it's posted, read past the requirements to the problem the role solves.
- Pull your candidates. From Discovering Your Strengths, write down your top few and star the ✦ rare ones.
- Find the overlap. Set your strengths beside what the opening needs, and circle the two or three that map onto it. Weight the ✦ rare traits: a strength most people don't have is the part of your pitch no one can copy.
- Check the direction. Open Aligned Work Areas and find the card closest to this opening. Its "why this may fit you" language bridges your shape to the role.
- Lead with the overlap. Write one or two lines that name it plainly: the thing this role needs that you happen to be good at, in your own words.
That line goes first: in the cover note, the intro message, the first thing you say in the room. You leave holding one line: the overlap, in your own words, ready to open with.
