From the course: Managing Your Design Career
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Self-reflecting on your strengths, motivators, and more
From the course: Managing Your Design Career
Self-reflecting on your strengths, motivators, and more
- When evaluating your current career situation there are five things that you're going to want to reflect on. First of all, what are your career goals. Second of all, in order to help accomplish those, you need to look back at your past accomplishments and your past contributions. You'll want to assess your skills, and we'll talk about both hard skills and soft skills. And then where are your opportunities for growth or improvement? Finally, what is it that really gets you excited? What are your passions and motivators that keep you engaged in your role? So the first step is determining your short-term goals. One of the most common interview questions that I've heard about for many, many years, is where do you want to be in five years. To be honest, I don't love that question, because the reality is in today's workplace, it's very challenging to know where you really will be in five years. The workplace changes rapidly, but so do situations. The economy may change. Your company may…
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