Planning Ahead: How to Use The Short-Term For Your Long Term Career Goals

Do you feel paralyzed by the prospect of having to plan out the next thirty years of your life, day by day? Are you staring down the barrel of an uncertain future? Does the enormity of change make you feel unequipped to handle it? In the latest episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart’s Catalyze Your Career miniseries, these big ideas are broken down into something as simple as elementary school math. Join our Host Matt Abrahams in conversation with returning guest Dorie Clark, whose expertise on Careers will help you through many different topics.

In this episode, Matt and Dorie discuss:
• Reframing the terminology of “Long Term Planning” to a “Provisional Hypothesis,” allowing for experimentation and adaptability to change.
• Practical, tactical advice for coming up with provisional hypotheses for your career.
• Being proactive in your career, in a healthy, “periodical” way, in Dorie Clark’s words.
• How and when to bring a change in your career.
• The best ways to learn about a new career, and how to transfer your skills from one to another.
• Since this miniseries is brought to you by LinkedIn, Dorie brings to you ways in which you can learn to leverage the online space for building your personal brand.
• The best career advice Dorie has ever received, and what Dorie wished she had done differently in her own career.

Through her surprisingly calming words, and the advice that you can implement right away, Dorie Clark makes planning your life out ahead of yours easy, and helps you deal with the big dark cloud of the future that looms over us all. All it takes is a willingness to embrace change, and a belief in your own abilities.

Key Quotes
• “It’s useful to have an idea where you wanna go so that you can be somewhat directed in the choices you’re making. But we also have to recognize that yes, things change. Yes, sometimes great opportunities emerge and you don’t want to be so paralysed that you can’t take them.” —Dorie Clark (01:54)
• “We need to be proactive periodically… For me … I am a supporter of the idea of taking a step back periodically, and taking inventory and looking at our career arc. And there are intervals where this is appropriate.” Dorie Clark (04:49)
• “There’s nothing without flaws, it’s about finding which flaws you can live with.” —Dorie Clark (10:10)

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Long Term Career Vision: Provisional Hypotheses
02:37 Dorie’s Advice
04:11 Being Proactive in Your Career Path
07:03 Career Inertia: When To Make a Change
09:17 How to Learn About a New Industry
11:06 How to Use Old Skills for a New Career
13:09 How to Position Your Own Brand on LinkedIn
16:06 Matt’s 2 Questions: Catalyze Your Career Version
19:49 Conclusion & Credits

Relevant Links:
Dorie Clark: https://dorieclark.com/
Dorie Clark Books: https://dorieclark.com/books/

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