Don't Just Look for Your Next Job. Define Your Next Chapter.

But what if the most valuable thing you could do first is not look for your next job?

After years, sometimes decades, of building experience and succeeding in an organization, it can be tempting to define what comes next by what you have done before. Yet you are not the same professional you were when you made your last major career choice.

Your strengths have deepened. Your priorities may have shifted. What energizes you may have changed. And what success means to you today may be very different from what it meant in the past.

So before asking “what can I do next?”, consider three different questions:
1. What do I want more of in my next chapter?
Think beyond title and status. What kind of work, contribution, environment and life do you want?
2. What value do I bring -wherever I go next?
Years inside one organization can make it surprisingly difficult to separate your job description from the strengths, experience and value that are uniquely yours.
3. What does success mean to me now?
Not to your organization. Not to the market. Not to the person you were earlier in your career. To you, today.

Your answers may point towards another corporate role. Or towards a different industry, consulting, entrepreneurship, a portfolio career, greater flexibility, or a possibility you haven’t considered yet.

The goal isn’t to reinvent yourself for the sake of reinvention.

It’s to make your experience work for who you are now and for where you genuinely want to go next.

Because there is an important difference between finding what’s available and choosing what’s right for you.

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