Pillars in the Career Master Plan
- Current job or role: This is what you are doing right now.
- Career Goals and Dreams: List your short-term (6-9 months) and longer-term (1-3 years) career goals and dreams.
- Your Big Why: Know why you want to do the work.
- Core Values: What are your top 3-5 core values that you are not willing to compromise?
- Limits and Boundaries: What is it that you are not willing to do? Whom do you not want to work with?
- Top Strengths: A strength is a combination of your talents and skills.
- Desired Strengths: These are the gaps you want to fill in your skills and talents.
- Education investment in Yourself: Are you going to conferences, joining a master-mind group, or hiring a coach?
- Execution Strategies: For instance, you may start a business, a side-hustle, a website.
- Role Models
- Ideal Client or Company: It is critical to know whom you want to serve with your work.
- Ideal Professional Self: A 25-word exercise where you describe your ideal professional self.
410
639 reads
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection
How to focus on the present moment
How to cultivate empathy and understanding towards others
How to set personal and professional goals
Related collections
Similar ideas to Pillars in the Career Master Plan
Self-Assessment
Carefully evaluate your individual strengths, lifestyle preferences, passions, work style, and financial needs.
Know both who you are as a person and who you desire to become as a professional. Take a careful inventory of your current career values, interests, skil...
‘The two Rs’ of job seeking
- Reflection. Take time to pinpoint what your values are in your career: What skills and strengths do you have? What do you still want to grow? And what feels like the right move?
- Research. Align your vision with research. Google what compan...
Setting career goals: take the initiative
Don’t wait for someone else (your boss or mentor) to ask you what your goals are. Take the initiative and draft your professional goals independently.
- Review your current status: evaluate where you are now in relation to the goals you set int the past. Did you me...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates