Tag Archives: Career Discernment

Time to refresh your career?

“Who do you want to be?” is a question we ask young adults until, almost arbitrarily, we begin to assume this decision has been made. It’s in the past. Whoever you are, that’s it. You have decided, we might think… despite the fact that so many of us still carry that question within ourselves. Who am I? Who do I want to be?

Four points to help you decide: People Manager or Individual Contributor?

You don’t want to be a victim of the Peter Principle, which says that people are promoted based on their tenure or their success in a previous role, irrespective of their capacity to excel in the new position. How do you decide like this when so much is at stake? No matter what you choose, you have lost what might have been your dream job in the other direction.