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HBR Guides to Managing Your Career Collection (6 Books)
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HBR Guides to Managing Your Career Collection (6 Books)

by Harvard Business Review
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
1216 pages
20h 10m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER 6

For Career Direction, Use Your Imagination

by Bill Barnett

Do you know what you want to do with your career? What if you don’t? You first must imagine what the right career field might be. That’s easy to say, but hard to do. There are productive ways to look for clues about what might work for you.

Tommy (whose name has been changed) shifted career direction after doing imagination exercises. He had a full-time job and was pursuing an MBA on nights and weekends. If he stayed with his employer after graduating, he would not only move onto a management track, but the company would also refund his tuition cost. He had assumed he would take full advantage of this deal, but when he went through what he called the “dream job exercise,” he ...

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