Career Planning prompts

10 prompts for career planning, from the Career shelf of the Secure AI library. Each one is written to be sent as it is or filled in — the bracketed parts are where your own situation goes.

• Map Out a 5-Year Career PathThe roles in between the one you have and the one you want.
• Should I Take This Promotion? A FrameworkThe offer that looks like a yes until you actually think it through.
• Decide Between Two Career PathsBeyond the salary, to what Tuesday actually looks like.
• Build a Personal Career Brand StatementOne sentence, and people know exactly what you do.
• Find the Gap Between Me and the Role I WantSeparating what you're missing from what you just can't name yet.
• Translate My Experience Into a New FieldThe same experience, described so a new field recognizes it.
• Build a Network From NothingStarting conversations when you don't know anybody yet.
• Evaluate an Offer Beyond the SalaryThe parts of an offer that never make it into the letter.
• Plan the Next Twelve MonthsA year's plan, ranked so one thing still counts as progress.
• Decide Whether to SpecializeWhat each path actually looks like a decade in.

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