Managing Your Personal Career

Managing Your Personal Career - Tips!

Managing Your Personal Career - Tips!

1) Know yourself, your wants, what you can accept and what you choose not to accept.

• What type of work do you like to do?

• Which activities give you the most meaning?

• What kinds of environments you prefer to work for?

• What sorts of people do you like to work with?

• What abilities do you possess and what do you need to develop?

• What is your personality style (Driver, Influencer, Conscientious, Steady)

• Are you good with details or good with numbers?

• Are you better with relationship building?

• Do you have natural leadership skills?

2) Identify your core business interest.

• Look at Common Threads Activity

• Identify your top three business interests

• In previous jobs, what kinds of activities did you gravitate toward?

• When working on a project what stage excites you the most? Planning, Implementation?

• Identify a personal mentor or find a career coach who can help develop any challenges or weakness that have been identified by former bosses. Coaches should be very affordable if it’s not an executive position.

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