Your Job Is Not Your Job: LinkedIn Speaker Series with Fred Kofman

If someone asked you, “What is your job?”, what would your response be? Go ahead, take a minute to think about your answer. Did you say that you’re a recruiter? Do you manage sales for the Western region? Maybe you’re a CEO? Well, as Fred Kofman, professor, LinkedIn Influencer and author of Conscious Business, points out, what you think is your job is not actually your job.

Let me explain.

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Last month, we were lucky to have Fred Kofman join us for our LinkedIn Speaker Series. The title of his talk, “Your Job Is Not Your Job”, challenged us all to stop limiting our careers to what we do, but expand it further to the actual goal that we are trying to achieve.

For example, my LinkedIn profile states that I’m a global learning