Personal and Career Development

CHAPTER 6

Assessment of Context and Competencies

Introduction

Now that we have clarity regarding our life’s main goals in the framework of our vision, we need to start setting up our career’s plan. As with any business plan, at the time of developing our business career, we need to have an awareness of the context of the market where we run it. A career in itself can be considered a company that also requires a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis based on the context.

Though it is generally known, we want to remind you that we live in the postindustrial era, where the skills and competencies that are demanded from the market are essentially different from those that were requested in the 19th and 20th centuries. The ...