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Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series)
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Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Dorie Clark, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Stacy Abrams, Lara Hodgson
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
3h 24m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
Content preview from Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series)

INTRODUCTION

Charting Your Path
A fulfilling career starts with you.

by Amy Bernstein, cohost of Women at Work

For most of my career, I had no career plan. Sure, I wanted to be challenged and I wanted my work to matter somehow, but beyond that—nothing. I’d stick with a job as long as I was interested, and when I started to get a little too comfortable or a little bored, I’d take the next interesting job that came my way.

Then, when I was about to turn 50, I found myself in a role that just didn’t feel right. The job didn’t play to my strengths, and my work seemed to have little impact. I was busy but lost, with no sense of where I wanted to go. I was stressed out all the time and just plain unhappy.

How did I end up there? It was time for a ...

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ISBN: 9781647824655