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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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