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Those of you who have an aquarium know how sensitive fish are with regards to the water quality. Multiple factors must be considered including purity of the water, temperature, level of oxygen, etc. A fish might not survive very long in an environment where the water does not match its needs, which are different from one species to another.… Read more “Iris’ painful experience of company culture”
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International experience is an important success factor for your career. Getting exposed to different cultures, countries, markets and ways of life is of crucial importance in today’s world. In our highly globalized economies, the ability to understand customer needs across the globe is indispensable.… Read more “How Pamela and Michael managed to move abroad as a couple”
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Being on a lifelong learning journey is of increasing importance in a fast changing world. This is the basis to ensure your employability. Don’t wait for others to take care of that, but be proactive and drive your professional development as part of your career strategy.… Read more “Job swap between John and Eliana”
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Christopher’s story shows how important it is to make purposeful career development choices to gain strategically relevant experience in view of your career target. Building up a broad experience base is a key success factor to reach your dream job.… Read more “How Christopher has built a broad experience base to reach his dream job”
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Our deep desire should be the north star for our career strategy because this is what will give us true satisfaction and fulfillment. As we will see in this story of Magdalena, we are sometimes disconnected from this deeper desire and we follow predefined career pathways.… Read more “How Magdalena found her true career aspiration”
In this article I describe the benefits of setting up a personal, outline how it works, what topics it should cover and how to select the board members.
It is important to actively drive your career development. But that should not be done alone.… Read more “Set up your personal Career Advisory Board”
We are in the daily race for higher objectives, and we constantly strive to over-achieve. Sometimes that ambition overshadows what we truly aspire to. Aspiration is related to our deeper desire. The closer we get to our aspired state, the more fulfillment we experience.… Read more “ASPIRATION versus AMBITION – The small but important difference”
Usually, the CV reflects what we have done in the past. But you can use that CV format also to plan your career development.
Many find it difficult to project themselves into the future. The REVERSE CV is a simple and pragmatic career planning tool, which can help you define the career steps that you should aim for to reach your dream job.… Read more “Write your reverse CV”
Verfügst du schon über ein Video-Lebenslauf? In der heutigen Zeit spielt die Video Kommunikation eine immer größere Rolle. Du solltest für dich nutzen.
Es gibt die Möglichkeit einen solchen Video Lebenslauf beispielsweise auf YouTube als „unlisted“ zu veröffentlichen. Es haben dann nur diejenigen Zugang zu dem Video, denen du den Link schickst.… Read more “Erstelle deinen Video-Lebenslauf”
Viele Menschen verbringen zwar etliche Zeit damit, strategische Fragen des Unternehmens, für das sie tätig sind, zu bearbeiten, verbringen aber nur ganz wenig Zeit damit, über ihre eigene Karrierestrategie nachzudenken. Das ist ein echtes Versäumnis, denn genau wie ein Unternehmen, so sollte auch deine Karriere strategisch ausgerichtet sein.… Read more “Definiere deine Karrierestrategie”
