The Career Design Map: Challenge Convention & Create the Career You Really Want

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The Career Design Map is a quick read that simplifies the complex topics of strategic leadership and career development. It is meant to (actually) be read, applied, revisited, and shared with others as you navigate your leadership and career journeys with a common language.

Go to these schools. Join these professions. Stay in your unrewarding job. Keep your head down. Climb the corporate ladder.

This old school, step-by-step career advice isn’t just limiting and unfulfilling—it’s clearly no longer working for today’s rising talent as the pace of change continues to accelerate.

With entire industries being upended and once-lucrative jobs falling victim to massive layoffs, you know you need to be highly adaptable. At the same time, you rightly want to act with intention and purpose rather than letting the wind take you where it will.

What, then, are you supposed to do? That’s why I created the Career Design Map.

In this concise yet powerful book, you’ll discover:
● Where you currently are on the Career Design Map
● Which of the “Meaningful Four” career types (Contributor, Go-Getter, Expert, or Executive) you want to pursue
● How to avoid the “Dangerous Seas” of Invisibility, Arrogance, Disengagement, and Burnout
● Strategic considerations and practical exercises to begin the hard work of creating the career you really want

Take the free quiz, then use this book to interpret your results and put them into practice. Pick up copies for yourself, your team, your coaching clients, or your students today!

Note: This is NOT a comprehensive job search guide. You can access Dan’s latest free job hunt guidance and resources on the Media & Resources tab at contempusleadership.com.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BVG5DPQW
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 21, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1.2 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 63 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #1,096,047 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #695 in Job Hunting & Career Guides #882 in Career Guides #949 in 90-Minute Business & Money Short Reads
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