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Career Planning Strategies

This is a living collection of resources that I use for my Career Planning Strategies workshop for students who are just beginning their Masters program. It includes all the resources I refer to in the workshops. The purpose of the workshops is to take stock of careers to date and use some tools for self-awareness, mapping out the important choices and actions ahead including a primer on Resumé/CV writing. Subscribe to receive future updates.

Besides the referenced Career Strategy resources below, you can find more resources Resume/CV resources here Resumes & Personal Branding
 
Please contact me here if you would like to discuss how you may go further in this topic, watch my videos about how Career Coaching can help you or Group Coaching can accelerate your team's effectiveness.

Videos

Finding Purpose in your Career
The real relationship between your age and your chance of success
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Networking
Motivation
Passion
Business Acumen
Fulfilling Careers
Happiness
Multipotentiality
Fighting for it
Success - A Career Story
Success v Connection
Avoid These Career-Planning Fallacies
Why Leadership and Mentorship Does Not Need to Fail Us
What Are Your Values?
Creating a process and tracking on a spreadsheet
It’s not easy to find what you want to do
Looking for a job during the crisis

Self-Assessments

Mirror Test: How Do You Rebound from Career Setbacks?
The Career Resources Questionnaire
Career Anchors
The BFI-2 Big Five Personality Assessment
Metaskills
Positive Psychology Self-Assessments
What’s your Cultural Profile?
VIA Character Strengths
16 Personalities
Gallup StrengthsFinder for Careers
GRIT Scale
What are your Values?

Books

How Will You Measure Your Life?
What Color is your Parachute?
The 2 Hour Job Search
What's Your Type of Career?: Find Your Perfect Career by Using Your Personality Type
Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
BRAND YOU! To Land Your Dream Job: A Step-by-Step Guide To Find A Great Job, Get Hired & Jumpstart Your Career
Career Anchors
Anyone Can Do It: Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real Life Laws on Entrepreneurship
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength
Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions
The Pie Method for Career Success: A Unique Way to Find Your Ideal Job
HBR Guide to Changing Your Career
The Executive Transition Playbook: Strategies for Starting Strong, Staying Focused, and Succeeding in Your New Leadership Role
Personality Plus: How to Understand Others by Understanding Yourself   
What Should I Do With My Life?
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World 
Disrupt Your Career: How to Navigate Uncharted Career Transitions and Thrive

Articles

Generalist vs. Specialist: Choosing a Path for Career Success

Feeling unfulfilled or stuck at work? 3 ways to help you get unstuck

The Age of Anti-Ambition

We need to have a career plan B up our sleeves

7 Pieces of Bad Career Advice Women Should Ignore

Looking for Your First Job? Here’s What to Focus on.

The Dream Job That Wasn’t

Career Therapy
Evaluating Income in Your Career Strategy
A DIY Guide to Career Growth
The 5 types of mentors you need in your life
Think Strategically About Your Career Development
Succeed in New Situations
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: Career Successes Come in Clusters
How Star Women Build Portable Skills
Don’t Let Com­pla­cen­cy Derail Your Career
Free Yourself from What You “Should” Be Doing
Lessons from a Career, Interrupted
How to Apply for a New Job After You've Been Fired
Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)
Disrupt Yourself
Facing Your Mid-Career Crisis
How To Prove You Can Do The Job, Even Without Direct Experience
How to Turn an Interim Role into a Permanent Job
How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject, or Negotiate a Job Offer
‘The Episodic Career’: Navigating Today’s Job Market
Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want
Why Do Toxic People Get Promoted? For the Same Reason Humble People Do: Political Skill
Should I Give Up On My Career Switch?
Job-Hopping to the Top and Other Career Fallacies
Research: Millennials Can't Afford to Job Hop
Are You a High Potential?
Three Questions to Advance Your Career
How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything
The Right Way to Be Fired
Why You Didn't Get That Promotion
What to Do If You Feel Stuck in the Wrong Career
How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career
Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women
Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change
What I Wish I’d Known When I Made a Drastic Career Change
How to Leave a Job You Love
What's Your Story?
How to Explain Your Career Transition
A Campaign Strategy for Your Career
Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career
How to Mentor Someone Who Doesn’t Know What Their Career Goals Should Be
A Second Career: The Possible Dream
Toward a comprehensive taxonomy of human motives
7 Steps to Discover Your Personal Core Values
A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions
Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk
Motivation: Maslow's hierarchy of needs
10 Ways to Lead a more Fulfilling Career
Develop your personal resilience for career success
Be careful what you wish for
Identifying the Skills That Can Help You Change Careers
The First Five Years: Early Creative Career Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them
7 Ways to Ensure Career Satisfaction
Five Tips from Career Director Dawn Graham for Making a Career Change
‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise
How to Explain Your Career Transition
Debunking 5 Common Work-From-Home Myths
Stop Fantasizing About the Perfect Job
Psychology’s five revelations for finding your true calling 
When Should You Change Jobs?
What to Do If Your Career Is Stalled and You Don’t Know Why
The Gainful Way to Use a Sabbatical
How to Become a Coach or Consultant After You Retire
The New Freelancers: Tapping Talent in the Gig Economy
Wealthy, Successful & Miserable
Waiting for a Career Epiphany
How and When to Shift Careers
How to make a bulletproof career plan – and stick to it
What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career
How Top-Performing College Grads Fall Into the ‘Prestige Career’ Trap
Take 5: How to Take Charge of Your Professional Development
There is Always a Plan B
6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It
Rebounding from Career Setbacks
Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters
Plan Your Professional Development for the Year
The key to loving your job in the age of burnout
The Risk Of Waiting Until You're Ready
Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified
How to Kickstart a Successful Career
Warren Buffett Is Here to Debunk This Common Career Advice
Have you had your annunciation moment yet?
Five Strategies for Investing in Your Career
The Art of Blooming Late
Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career
The Biggest Career Mistake You Can Make (Avoid This At All Costs)
The Ultimate Checklist for Anyone Considering a Career Switch
You’ve Climbed the Corporate Ladder. What’s Next?
This Spreadsheet Is Exactly What You Need to Track Everything in Your Job Search
Is It Better to Be a Specialist or a Generalist?
Redefining Success: Adopt the Journey Mindset to Move Forward
In the Salary Race, Engineers Sprint but English Majors Endure
The 4 Es of Successful Career Transitions
7 things everyone should do while they’re in college that can help them in the future
How to Gain Credibility When You Have Little Experience
Making Coffee Chats Work for You
You Don’t Need to Meet Every Qualification to Apply for a Job
Change Career or Start a Business? It's Never Too Late to Pivot
You Should Plan On Switching Jobs Every Three Years For The Rest Of Your Life
Your unconventional career path does not reflect a lack of focus
The 4 Es of Successful Career Transitions
What Would Your ‘Future Self’ Want You To Do? (Prepare Yourself, It’s Unlikely To Be Comfortable)
How to find your next job: Talk to the people you already know
What Job Crafting Looks Like
 
You Don’t Need to Meet Every Qualification to Apply for a Job
 
When the only way is up: the pitfalls of upward mobility

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