Thinking Out Loud: My Career Planning
On average I usually think about my career at least 1 time every year and do an honest and deep “career inventory taking”. More often (sometimes 2-3 times a year) if my job or environment is changing a lot. Are the questions I ask myself each time the same? No. Why? Well cause time has passed. What do I mean by this? This means that over the years what I’ve seen is that my 1 year plan, 3 year plan, 5 year plan and 10 year plans have changed as I have changed.
For example ~26 years ago (when I was 25 years old) my plan was to become CEO of IBM by the time I was 35. LOL! (But that is a whole other blog: What’s at the “Top” of Your Ladder?) Obviously, between then (when I was 25) and now my annual “career planning inventory” questions and my focus on what I want as the “wins” in a job for me….. have radically changed.
What do I mean by “my focus on what I want as the ‘wins’ in a job?” Well, again, when I was Continue reading