December 31st, 2007
Your Career Audit: Part Five
Do you have a strategic career plan? Do you know where you want to be one year from now? How about 3, 5 and 10 years from now? Now is a great time of year to conduct a “career audit.” A career audit is your opportunity to assess how your professional life is going. It allows you to identify what is going well and areas in which you’d like to adjust
course.
Keep your “more and less” list in a prominent place where you will see it often. Review it each week as you plan the coming week so you can schedule time to focus on these priority goals. (You do strategically plan your weeks in advance, don’t you? If not, I recommend putting this helpful habit into practice in 2008.)
Use your career audit to actively manage your career and reach both your short and long-term professional goals. Take the time now to strategically design the rest of your career
so you can truly actualize these wise words from Confucius: “Find work that you love and never work another day in your life.”
Until next month,
Maret
