How do you set up a good framework to grow your career? And what steps do you need to take to keep moving towards your career vision?

We speak with Jasmine Briggs, a New York based Career Coach, who walks us through the process of setting up goals that enable constant growth and development in our careers.

Learn:

* How important is good career management to the success of professional development?

* How do you set up a good framework to help your career grow?

* How to create your career vision

* Look for mentors to aid career management

* Personal development vs. professional development

* What is the biggest misconception in career management?

* How do you know when you are on the right career path?

* Top 3 tips for good career management

Links:

* JasmineBriggs.com

* Women Create Facebook group

One of the things I notice is that when I engage with folks, they seem to be more goal oriented. And don’t get me wrong – I encourage people to have a personal vision and goals. Goals to reach their vision and plans to reach their goals.

But one of the things I’ve noticed is that when the goal is completed it take a long time to develop another set of goals. In our busy lives as leaders, it takes us a while to get back to goal setting. Where individuals fail to get back into their personal development – this is where boredom and complacency grow.

So I think it’s vital that we change our mentality to become more growth oriented than goal oriented. My friend and mentor, John Maxwell, in the book ‘The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership’, calls this the law of process where he writes that:

‘Leadership is not built in a day, but it’s built daily.’

So now that we’ve spent the time to develop, what’s the best way to market our talents? And how do we take all that expertise and use it to have successful career management?

I wanted to find somebody that was going to be able to give us some guidance and tips on good career management.

So our guest today is Jasmine Briggs. She is a Career Coach, with an extensive background in recruitment, workforce development, staffing and career counselling. She works with professionals around the country on developing their dream careers. Jasmine’s expertise is in career exploration, setting career goals, and employment search techniques.

How important is good career management to the success of professional development?

Very important. Jasmine notes that we’ve moved away from a time where companies manage our career so that we have to manage it ourselves.

We must avoid leaving our careers on autopilot by setting growth goals in terms of where we see our careers going and the steps we need to take to get there.

Of course, as leaders, we must be invested in our workforce to help them be successful in their careers, but it’s important to remember that our first employee is yourself and that should be our first priority.

How do you set up a good framework to help your career grow?

It starts with an exploration of what is important to you and what you want to contribute to the world, says Jasmine.

Once you know what you’re looking to contribute, you can then turn that into an overall vision for your career. And once you have a vision, you can’t leave it stagnant – you must check in with it every six months or so to make sure that the vision hasn’t changed. Or if it has changed to update it to where you are right now.

Our environments are constantly changing, so it is important to always be revisiting your vision to ensure it is relevant to you and your current position.

How to create your career vision

Jasmine advises starting with a check-in date.