Level 1 · Build Your Career Strategy
If you do not know where you are going, you cannot know whether you have arrived.
Before you pack your suitcase
Writing a CV without a goal is like packing a suitcase without knowing whether you are going to Greenland or to Bali. You can pack beautifully. You can fold everything into little squares. You can buy a very expensive suitcase. But you still might arrive in the snow wearing sandals.
Career strategy comes first for a reason. Before you decide how to present yourself, you need to decide where you want to go. Otherwise, every new job advertisement becomes a possible destination, and every rejection feels like a judgment on your whole professional life.
Find your Point B
Everybody can name their Point A. It is where you are today: your experience, your responsibilities, your income, your worries. What is often harder to name is Point B. What are you actually trying to reach?
"I want something better" is understandable, but it gives you very little help on Monday morning. Better in what way? More money? More learning? Less travel? A manager who trusts you?
You are not choosing your identity forever. You are choosing a direction clear enough to investigate…
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