Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Cure for Career Stagnation

From DICE, February 4, 2009...

Among the better “kick-in-the-pants” career advice articles I’ve seen recently is this one from Jeff Schmitt at BusinessWeek. His topic: career stagnation and how to reconsider and retarget your trajectory in IT or anywhere else. The symptoms as he describes them are unpleasant.

"We have all experienced these same sensations at work. At some point, we’ll find ourselves falling behind. We’ll concede our lives haven’t gone as planned. We’ll realize that we should be so much more. And we’ll know that something needs to change - and fast."

Schmitt’s first suggestion is the most painful one: the dreaded self-evaluation.

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