The Amp It Up Fieldbook

17Amp Up Your Career

Like growing a company, developing your career can be an exciting challenge. The key is to focus on your experience and manage yourself like a product. Keep your long-term goals in mind and let them direct your path. Approach each role as an opportunity to build a record of accomplishments. This proves that you are a driver who is focused on outcomes—someone who can execute. Your aptitude, attitude, and behavior matter more than anything else when it comes to your career. Take time to understand your talents, and recognize your strengths and weaknesses—and adjust accordingly.

The following activities will help you pinpoint your goals, play up your strengths, and hone your self-awareness.

PRODUCT-MANAGE YOURSELF

Consider your career path to this point.

Are you satisfied with your upward progress to this point in your career? Why or why not?

 

 

 

 

What accomplishments are you particularly proud of? How would you describe them to someone who is interviewing you for a job?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have you ever experienced a major setback? If so, what did you learn from it? What steps can you take to draw on that experience as you face future challenges?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIND YOUR APTITUDE

Consider your natural talents and abilities. What are you innately good at? Back up your claim with examples and stories that interviewers would find compelling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tap into your self-awareness and consider your weaknesses. Be honest with yourself. What ...