© Zsolt Nagy  2019
Z. NagySoft Skills to Advance Your Developer Careerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5092-1_3

3. Discover Your Individual Goals

Focus Is Power
Zsolt Nagy1 
(1)
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
 

The goal of this chapter is to understand your current situation, understand where you want to be, and construct a plan to make your way to the desired destination.

To execute this process, you have to know what is available to you. A lot of people have no idea about what each career path holds for them. When I was inexperienced, I was one of these people. Had I known what the future held for me, I would have made better decisions.

We will start with exploring some possible career paths. This examination will be based on career capital . Your employer ...

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