Mastermind: Get the Job You Want – Your Job Search & Career Q&A

This is a small, interactive mastermind session for expats in Germany who want honest feedback, fresh ideas, and clear next steps for their career and job search.

Whether you are job searching, changing careers, negotiating an offer, or rebuilding confidence after a setback – you can bring any question or situation related to your professional life. Topics I support include:

• Clarifying your strengths, skills, and professional “superpowers”
• Understanding what you really want from work (values, interests, work environment)
• Exploring new career directions and validating your ideas about roles or industries
• Creating a focused job search strategy that actually works in Germany
• Writing a selling CV and tailoring it to specific roles
• Preparing for interviews and answering difficult questions confidently
• Negotiating salary and offers (BATNA, ZOPA, benefits, promotion prospects)

## What is a mastermind and why structure matters

A mastermind is a format of collective thinking: you bring one brain, and you get access to many. It is not “just talking”; the structure keeps us focused on your concrete question so you leave with decisions, ideas, and action steps instead of random advice.

We will use a simple request structure so it is not just a chat:

• What exactly you want to solve or achieve
• Your context: facts, numbers, what you have already tried
• Your constraints: time, money, energy, non‑negotiables
• 2–3 options you already see
• The type of help you want (ideas, solution, plan, feedback)

When your case is in the center, the group helps you by:

• Asking clarifying questions that reveal blind spots
• Sharing their own experience with similar situations
• Offering multiple ideas and solutions for you to choose from

While someone else is in the center, you still get value by:

• “Stealing” other people’s insights and tools that you can apply to your own situation
• Training your brain to see patterns and solutions faster
• Feeling useful and smart by helping others with their questions

You will leave with concrete ideas, decisions, and next steps you can actually test in real life.

## If you have no clear request (also totally fine)

You can:

• Come with a general feeling (“I’m stuck”, “I’m lost in my job search”) and we will formulate your request together
• Or come simply to listen, observe other people’s cases, and “smuggle” their insights into your own situation

Come with a task → you will get a solution or at least 2–3 ideas you would not have found alone.

Come without a task → you will quietly steal other people’s insights and still feel smart and useful by helping them.

About your host
I’m Jenia, founder of Expat Careers and creator of the “Get the Job You Want” program for expats in Germany. As an expat myself, I’ve built a career here as a Manager at Apple, VP Business Operations, and now Marketing Director in an advertising agency.
I help international professionals navigate the German job market with practical strategies and mindset support, so you know what to do and feel confident doing it.