How to map your career path
How to develop a clear vision about yourself and your career path.
Working out a good development plan in order to construct a successful career path might seem a daunting task if you do not focus clearly enough on your goals, aspirations and the risks that you are willing to take.
When you combine on-the-job, social and formal learning you grow faster and a positive cycle develops: you perform, receive feedback and perform again better.
The more you gain experience of things, the more you develop a clear vision about yourself and your career path. It is like a journey that requires a starting point and a destination – two very obvious elements that are often lacking from a serious development plan.
The two key steps in order to grow faster are the following:
- Determine your From/To.
- Gain experience and draw up a personal experience map
After you’ve determined your From and To, you finally have a framework that will allow you to trace a personal experience map, that should show which experiences you want to acquire in the 2 to 5 years to develop your career.
Remember that two types of experience will allow you to accelerate your development. Functional experience helps make you great at something and Management experience will help you prove that you can perform or manage in a variety of challenging contexts.
You can use the following experiences when you create your map:
- Life-cycle experiences
- Managing experiences
- Geographic experiences
After building a realistic map remember always to keep it updated so that it can help you as a guide to constantly developing your high-performing self.
At this point, what better way to understand how to map your career path than to follow the career advice on our blog, that will inspire and guide you.
