TMI Career Management Quiz

Traditionally, professionals and executives have utilized two fundamentally different strategies to manage their careers: the strategic approach, and the opportunistic approach. The strategic approach involves identifying a skill portfolio, setting long-term career objectives, and working methodically to build skills and achieve those objectives through a series of measured steps. The opportunistic approach involves keeping your ear to the ground (while at the same time keeping your shoulder to the wheel), your network expanding, and proactively keeping the door open for opportunities. Then, if an opportunity feels right, taking advantage of it and over time building a series of career moves to more satisfying positions.

Please take a minuteand complete our survey below to find out which approach you are using, and to receive an analysis of your career management strategy.

Strategic Dimension Questions
Do you have a long term career goal?     Yes No
Is your industry:  
Growing Rapidly          
Growing Moderately          
Stable/Declining          
Is your area of functional expertise:  
Increasingly important          
Stable in importance          
Decreasingly important          
In the last year have you developed a new marketable skill needed to achieve your career goal?     Yes No
Are you active in an industry/professional association relevant to your career goal?     Yes No
Do you know the major trends in your industry/functions?     Yes No
Are you building a career goal related rolodex?     Yes No
Do you have visibility with search firms in your area of career interest?     Yes No
Opportunistic Dimension Questions
How many industry/professional associations are you in? Two or More One None
How many contacts in your personal/professional network? 200+ 50-200 under 50
Have you pursued all opportunities presented to you by search firms?     Yes No
Did your last position "find you"?     Yes No
Do you assist networking job hunters?     Yes No
Are you a member of any general networking groups?     Yes No
In the last year, have you developed a valuable transferrable skill?     Yes No
Are you involved in community/non profit activities?     Yes No

 

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