The paranoid’s approach to career management
Do the following until your worst fears are confirmed:
- Test your market value
- All good: Go to 5. Trouble ahead: Go to 2.
- Guess what the market wants
- Do you think the market needs you, a better you, or a different you?
- Test your hypothesis
- Spot on: Go to 4. Whoops: Go to 2.
- Acquire the new skills and experiences
- Develop your service ethic.
- Build your brand.
- Bring your creativity to the fore.
- Expect to be doing the ‘hard yards’ right up to the finish line.
- Wait one month then go to 1.
