Hunting down great career ideas...

As we discussed last time, your relationship with your manager can be critical for your career. Getting it right and then maintaining it over time is challenging, but reaps rewards.

I’ve written on this before, but I’ve been thinking a lot of late about the very talented individuals I’ve had the good fortune to work for during my career.

At some stage in any career event you attend, the subject of “networking” invariably comes up. For some, that’s a comfortable conversation – but for others it just triggers a cold shiver down the spine.

As we’ve mentioned before, our research shows that the best chance you have to move your career forward is to find a role that plays to your strengths.

Most companies have some kind of formal or informal succession plan or process for planning who will move where in the future.