Putting Your Best Foot Forward: a Practical Guide to Career Transitions in the Ai Era

Feeling stuck in your career while AI, layoffs, and hybrid work rewrite the rules?Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Career Transitions in the AI Era is a practical playbook for mid-to-senior professionals who don’t want to leave their next move to luck. It shows you how to make clear, confident career decisions in a noisy, changing job market.Ashwin Agrawal is the founder of MobiusEngine.ai, a career services company that he founded in 2023 and that has helped thousands of professionals run smarter, data-driven job searches. He brings 20 years of experience across cloud and financial services. At Google, he led product and go-to-market initiatives; at JP Morgan, he drove financial technology programs. He holds an MBA from Yale University and has coached hundreds of executives through real-world career transitions.Instead of old advice about “working hard and waiting to be noticed,” this book treats your career like a product you can design, position, and grow—no matter what AI or the economy is doing.Inside, you’ll learn how to:Understand the new rules of career success in an AI-driven job market.Apply Google-style product thinking to your own career using simple, repeatable frameworks.Reposition your experience for new roles, new industries, and executive-level opportunities.Tell clear, powerful career stories on your resume, LinkedIn, and in interviews.Run a proactive job search instead of relying on cold online applications.Use AI tools to speed up your search without sounding generic or replaceable.Negotiate like an executive and avoid common traps that stall transitions.This book is for you if:You have 10–25+ years of experience and feel plateaued, under-recognized, or at risk.You’re navigating a layoff, a forced change, or planning a strategic pivot.You want practical frameworks, real case studies, and templates you can use right away.If you’re ready to stop reacting to change and start steering your next chapter, Putting Your Best Foot Forward will show you where to place your next step—and how to build a career that doesn’t stall again.