Everyone, at some point in their career, begins to rethink their direction, evaluate their options, or prepares for making a career transition or an upgrade.
Experience actually tends to complicate those considerations of what comes next.
A director considering a vice president position, an executive preparing for a career transition, or any senior career level individual questioning their long-term direction most likely has years of accomplishments and achievements behind them.
This is where career strategy and executive coaching help to clear things up.
Career Development Thoughts Get Sidelined
You spend so much time just doing your job, managing business responsibilities and dealing with day to day considerations you devote surprisingly little attention to your own career development.
Does this sound like you?
Before you know it, change is in the corporate wind. There is an organizational restructuring. A promotion becomes available. Several layers of positions have been eliminated. A new opportunity presents itself.
Suddenly, you need to evaluate your own career as the priority. And it comes as somewhat of a shock to the system.
What Career Strategy Brings to the Table
Career strategy focuses on your career direction and where you want to go from here.
It examines where you have been, what you have achieved, how your current experience translates into future opportunities, and which career paths make sense.
There are the inevitable evaluations of industry changes, transferable assets you’ve developed, your reputation as a team player and as a professional, and the relevancy of all this to the requirements of target positions.
The Focus on You, the Executive
Management, directors, vice presidents and other executives do not operate in a vacuum.
You already know that. Your decisions affect your income, your family, and how you plan to move forward.
A personalized career strategy helps you evaluate those decisions in a way that is focused on you, not some generalized mainstream philosophy.
It is, at the end of the day, all about intentional professional development. Experience provides the foundation. Careful evaluation of all factors is what helps you decide how you want to move forward in your career.
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Maureen McCullough is a veteran resume writer with over 25 years experience in the field, serving clients nationwide. With a deep understanding of hiring, job searching, nationwide job markets and candidate needs - she offers resume writing for all levels from entry level to executive and C-Suite.
In addition, she offers candidate value proposition services which improve what candidates bring to the table. These include career strategy, career transition, career development, executive coaching and consulting, interview preparation and LinkedIn profile optimization.
She is the creator of the exclusive FAR → Foundation → Accomplish → Rebrand™ executive career strategy framework which gives executive clients our best possible flagship service for their career advancement.
She is also the creator of the Resume Job Match Review, a sophisticated yet extremely practical structured analytical framework based on her own proprietary software which compares your résumé against job descriptions you wish to apply for, helping you cut down on mismatches.
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