Grab Your Compass

You wouldn’t dream of starting a motor trip without a road map. The same holds true for a job search or managing your career. A career map will help you no matter what level or stage you’re at in your work life. Corporate professionals, recent college grads, entrepreneurs, the unemployed, military veterans, and those who have taken time off to raise children all benefit from creating their own career maps.

Career mapping not only draws on your strengths but also provides key insights to help you crack the code on how to be successful – on your own terms. Here’s how:

• Career mapping draws on your strengths and provides key insights. By plotting elements of your historical and aspirational work, whether in jobs or in school, you find more clues to what your true competencies, attributes and passions are – now.
• Career mapping addresses all levels of job seekers from entry level and mid-level to executive and encore levels, and what I call the detour route. No matter what your level, moving ahead involves asking the right questions. You will have the context for inquiry that examines both the right and wrong questions.
• When career mapping, know there are no shortcuts. Before you can write a good résumé or give a good elevator pitch, you need to have identified your core characteristics. Only you can design a guide that will point you to a life filled with meaning and purpose.

Michelangelo wrote: “The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it.” A career map will help you aim high. My career map template is available as a free download. Give it a try.

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