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Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career (HBR Work Smart Series)
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Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career (HBR Work Smart Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Mimi Aboubaker, Ruchika T. Malhotra, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Deborah Grayson Riegel
May 2024
Beginner
208 pages
3h 5m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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3 How to Build a Career You Won’t Hate

by Michelle Gibbings

Whether you’re just getting started in your career, or are ready to take the next step, you need to approach your career goals strategically. You need intention, but also flexibility, to move forward—you need a career guide.

A career guide is a well-thought-out plan highlighting what it will take to progress your career in ways that you find truly meaningful. This approach has served me (and my clients) well throughout my time in the corporate world and now as an executive coach helping others make the leaps that will advance their careers.

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