Hunting down great career ideas...

When you’re starting to look around for your next opportunity, a good way to get focused is to create a speculative C.V. – something you can give to people in your organisation who might know of opportunities that are coming up, or pass to an interested manager who hasn’t yet formally advertised a vacancy.

When you’re looking for your next role, you can find yourself comparing jobs and trying to work out which one is best – not only which has the best job title, but which would be the best for your career? What should you think about, before deciding?

Recently I’ve been helping people think about their potential career moves, and several times they have asked me a question on the timing of taking a leap into something new in their career. Often people add: “I’ve been waiting to make this career move for a long time – but I want to feel I’m ready and that I can do everything in the job description”.

Over the course of our career, we make many changes. Some of those changes give us more of the same, but some are substantially different – so we’re going to start a series of blogs over the coming months to think about how to handle some of the most difficult career transitions that you might want (or have) to make.

Many CVs are weak because there are no hard facts or evidence that shows the quality of results achieved in a role. This is why we always emphasise the importance of measuring the impact of the work that you do, so that you have hard data at your fingertips at all times.