Think of your career as a mountain: here’s how to plan your first steps | opinion
FT SchoolsWhether it’s holidays, meals, or your career, if you truly don’t mind where you go, what you eat, or what job you do, then there is no need to plan. However, you probably do have some idea of what you might want to do in your career, even it is not yet specific or fully formed. And it’s OK at this stage to know roughly which career mountain range to climb, even if you haven’t placed a flag at the top of one particular peak.
That should be your first clue in thinking about where to direct your career plans: what activities will give your job meaning and purpose? There’s no right or wrong answer to this, and what your friends or family think is not relevant; your purpose may be to entertain people with music or art, to restore habitat, to translate literature, to heal the sick, discover cures for diseases, or one of many other objectives.
Given that the world can feel a rather uncertain place, and arguably more changeable than it was for your teachers and parents, you may wonder how anyone can possibly make useful plans. Some guiding principles can help. While robots and artificial intelligence are gradually taking on more tasks, people are still needed to generate creative new ideas, to persuade, care for, and inspire other people.
For any sort of interview or job application, the secrets of success are to prepare well and to think about your audience. Everything you write or tell them must answer their questions and be relevant to the subject. Before an interview, list all the questions that might come up and spend some time planning what you’d answer.
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