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It's all in the plan

by JoyLynn Reed
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  • Spend time looking for paid opportunities to learn transferable skills. For example, I never intended to turn teaching aerobics into a career. But it gave me great leadership and teaching skills. That experience was a big help when I started my university teaching career.

  • Shape your career, don't let it shape you. Decide what you want your career to be and make your opportunities match that. Sometimes, you have to take the role employers give you. But you can also make roles for yourself by acquiring projects that can further your career. If you want to be a writer but are working as a bookkeeper, you could create a newsletter for your department. Even if the job takes a few more hours a week, creating, editing, and writing a department newsletter puts you closer to your long-term career goal.

    What does all of this mean? Positioning yourself in your career will happen a step at a time with planning. The keys are time and planning.

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