Navigating Your Career Roadmap, Detours and Rough Roads

Jill Hurst-WahlDec. 15, 2011

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Your career will include twists, turns and surprises that you didn’t anticipate.

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Your Career is a Journey

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Getting Ready for the Trip• What knowledge & skills

do you need?• How can you acquire

those skills (e.g., coursework, on the job, etc.)?

• With whom should you network? (f2f / online)

• What conferences should you attend?

• Where should you try to get published?

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Put Yourself in the Driver’s Seat

• Take control of your career!

• Don’t rely on your boss.• Don’t rely on your friends.• Don’t rely on your mentor.

• Their own careers come first.

• You need to put your career first!

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There Will Be Bumps

•Unpleasant assignments•Conflict•Abuse•Bad bosses•Career detours•Job loss

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How Do You Survive?•Understand the benefits of your position.

Create a list.•Know if it is worth staying, for example,

to complete a great project.•Know that you may not be alone. Quietly

seek out others, but don’t whine.•Network. Network. Network.•Ensure that your reputation is distinct

from that of your organization.•Invest in your professional growth.

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The Pivot

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One Final Piece of AdviceP

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Your Questions…P

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