The Right Way to Look at Career Planning
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
In this video, I discuss the mistaken notion of career planning and offer an alternative. (From the archives)
Career Planning is one of those mythical concepts that suggests that you know best at age 20 in your life where you’re going to wind up at age 55 and 60 do you think that’s really likely I don’t and using myself as an example somewhere along the line I stumbled into the concept of being recruited because after all as a guy with a BA in political science which may be absolutely useless for business and if I want to work on campaigns and help people get elected for office I would surely go insane so we’ve stumbled into this career of being a headhunter under the premise that I’d be actually trying to help people do something constructive and I’ve stayed in this career for a long time but also understand it really my own where I can work in a unique kind of way that swim suits my personality if I was the linear thinking thinker and everything that I was focused on is doing the placement and we’ve got insane a long time ago how does this apply to you for most of you you’re going to set off on a particular course at age 20 and along the way they’re going through course corrections and that’s really what we’re planning should be about because at age 20 and at age 30 the worlds are very different and if you’re not alert to the changes in the world you become a relic and no one hires relics and certainly your interest and enthusiasm for your work will have died years before if all what you’re doing is the same thing that you’ve been doing for the first ten years of your career so even in the world of headhunting or I started placing people and excuse me of this technology is incapable of you but it was hot technology once I place COBOL programmers and age said in the 1970s when I first got into recruiting and progress to more senior roles where I’m working with people who are organizational chieftains from the lack of a better word c-level executives people who architects solutions the systems I’m working at a higher level than placing people who program in COBOL you know it’s just different work and I find it much more interesting I also find the coaching work that I do far more interesting and I’m able to provide advice that helps people sustain themselves and move forward in their career I’ve created videos as you know as the one is that you’re watching now podcasts ezines a whole plethora of information products and services that are decided to help people because that’s really where my interest is and for you, you just have to be alert that opportunity and act on it you have to see the potential and recognize it along the way make bad decisions and they’re not going to work out and that shouldn’t stop you, you see adaptation is one of the most important qualities of a professional and not getting psyched out by a failure along the way it’s a classic story of scientistic parade best fantastic products how many failures did Alexander Graham Bell half before he invented the telephone how many failures the Thomas Edison half before he created a system for which we have an electric right now all in all the greats fail and they go on to the next thing I’m not telling you to quit your job tomorrow you might try some things out on the side is a side hustle absolutely but the idea is being alert the possibility and acting on those possibilities experiment they trying things out and then from there deciding whether it’s something that you want to pursue it won’t always be easy and most of the time it won’t and give your ideas to do the failures that really weren’t and well thought out but you’re not going in a whole hog or try things out and you may hit the mother lode.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2300 episodes.
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