How to position yourself for one specific opportunity
This is for you if a specific opening sits in front of you: a role, an internal move, a project to lead. The pitch you keep drafting could belong to anyone. You've got the material. What's missing is the angle that makes this one obviously yours.
With one opening, the instinct is to prove range: show everything you've got, every tool, every past win. But a specific opening has a specific need, and the person who gets it is rarely the most impressive one in the pile. It's the one whose shape most obviously fits this exact opening.
The fit lives in the overlap between what you bring and what the role actually needs. A general pitch buries that overlap under everything else you can do.
Your results already hold half of that map: the exact shape of what you bring. Open two sections of your Career Discovery report.
Discovering Your Strengths ranks your top ten, and marks the rare ones with a ✦. Those are traits fewer than one in five people carry in their top ten. Aligned Work Areas lays out the job-area cards that fit how you're built.
Those ✦ marks tell you which of your strengths are rare. If you've taken the Superpower profile, it goes deeper on exactly these: it ranks every strength by how rare it is, shows the exact percentile you land in, and names the rare combinations only you have.
Now do this.
- Name what this opening actually needs. Not the title, the real thing: the two or three things someone would have to be genuinely good at to do it well. If it's posted, read past the requirements to the problem the role exists to solve.
- 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 straight 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 is a ready bridge from your shape to the role.
- Lead with the overlap. Write one or two lines that name it plainly. Say the thing this role needs that you happen to be genuinely good at, in your own words.
That line goes first: in the cover note, the top of the intro message, the first thing you say in the room. Everything else you've done still comes in behind it. You leave holding one line: the overlap, named in your own words, ready to open with.
