CHAPTER 4

Twenty Steps to Your Dream Career

ou cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

—Abraham Lincoln

Key Points

• Career planning can be divided into three broad stages: Identifying a career that’s right for you; developing the skills you need; and getting and capitalizing on your first job.

• Among the key steps, you must:

o Identify your driving passion, assess and determine how to apply your skills to your passion.

o Identify a few ways of using your unique passions/skill combinations to real-world needs.

o Prepare for a complementary “safety career” just in case your dream career doesn’t work out or doesn’t last.

o Select and fully utilize your first job as an indispensable foundation for a ...

Get Creating a Pathway to Your Dream Career now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.