Career Leadership
March 27th, 2009 | 
Author: I remember taking a survey at the career center in college that assessed several factors and then predicted that being a Podiatrist was an appropriate career choice for me. It was such a ridiculous suggestion that from then on I shunned any career assessment as absurd!
It’s taken several years and career shifts to determine a really useful alternative to the classic career assessment. Several ideas emerged as key:
- I know better than someone else what is right for me.
- Career choices are not an event that can be packaged in an assessment or even a collection of assessments.
- Everyday I can become more clear about what’s right for me and more clear about what enhances the value I can create for others.
- I need to be really clear about who I am at my best, to make solid career choices.
- Ultimately, a solid career path requires that I am a strong leader of myself and my life.
The IAM Career Leadership lesson explores these ideas and how we are the everyday leaders of our work, in the context of a whole and healthy life. We’re interested knowing, “What would it take for you to be the leader of your career?”
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I all of your points are excellent. In my 10+ years of experience in working with people in their careers, what seems to be a common theme of people who are dissatisfied with their careers: external focus. There are so many people out there who think they know us better than we know ourselves. A metaphor I use is the concept of driving a bus. If you think of your career as a bus, are you driving it or is someone else? If someone else is driving your bus, they get to choose what you do, where you do it,and who is sitting in the seats. If you’re driving your bus, you get to choose!
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