What Does Career Management Mean to You?

Part 1 of our series on career management. 

In the coming weeks we are going to be exploring what is career management, with a view to helping individuals devise their own career management strategies.

  

Recently on LinkedIn I ran a poll on what others associated with career mentoring. 

The results were as follows:

50% wanted help to formulate a career strategy 

20% wanted help in establishing what is important to them in driving their career

20% were seeking help and support with job applications  

10% wanted help to identify a career direction in terms of role/sector

This led me to thinking that the components required for an effective career strategy was probably a good topic to launch our blog.  

I particularly liked the picture above which got me thinking about what to consider for an effective career strategy. Other factors I thought of were:  

• Contribution 
•  Knowledge 
•  Perseverance 
•  Responsibility 
•  Growth 
•  Potential 
•  Performance 
•  Development 
• Training 
•  Ability 
•  Management 
• Experience 

I have clustered these component parts loosely as follows and will cover them in future posts

More information about career mentoring can be found here