What’s Your Career Direction?

What’s Your Career Direction?

Do you know where your career is headed? Do you know where you want to be in 6 months? One year? Five years? If you’ve never really taken the time to look ahead; you should try. It can give you greater clarity into what you should be doing now to get there. For example, if you say you would like to be the Director of an IT team in 5 years, how is that going to happen? You are going to have to gather the right experience, skills and drive to make it. Nothing happens just because you want it to.

Here are 10 questions to get you thinking:

1. Do you want to be in a different role?
2. What type of role do you want?
3. Do you want to switch careers?
4. Do you want a high-visibility position?
5. What company or type of company do you want to work for?
6. Would you prefer to start your own business?
7. Do you want to manage a team of people?
8. What type of responsibilities do you want?
9. How much money do you want to make?
10. Where do you want to live and/or work?

Hopefully, now you’ve started thinking about your future goals. It’s time to start taking some action and making it happen. Get to work!