Stop spinning your wheels
When you're facing a major career decision or preparing for an important meeting or interview, it can be easy to second-guess yourself. And it can be difficult to get clear on what's truly important.
You feel like you might be missing something or there's a chance you might even be headed in the wrong direction.
You need to talk through things.
Get a fresh perspective
While your family, friends and mentors might have the best intentions, they're not always the best people to turn to for perspective when it comes to your career. They may:
- Tell you what they think you want to hear (to be supportive)
- Tell you what they'd do (which might not be a good fit for you)
- Take a strong position with limited information (to help you get unstuck)
You have another option.
Book a Career Strategy Session with Doug
For over 10 years, Doug Lester has been helping MBAs and ambitious professionals get clear on what's important in their work and lives and take the action necessary to move forward.
A Wharton MBA with experience as a Fortune 100 hiring manager and an executive recruiter, Doug has training and experience that can be hard to find in just one person. A top-rated coach among alumni and students at the Harvard Business School, Doug has served as a guide to ambitious professionals in thousands of coaching sessions.
Doug can help you see your situation more clearly, assess your options and come up with an approach that will work in the real world.
In your 60-minute, one-on-one session on Zoom (or the phone, if that's more comfortable) you can:
- Reflect on your career and experiences to date and draw preliminary conclusions about where you might be headed next
- Consider how you might position yourself effectively as you pursue your next role
- Come up with an approach for explaining a career misstep that is authentic and emphasizes the positive aspects of your background, experience and motivations
- Formulate a networking strategy that gets you on the radar screens of the key decision-makers who hold the keys to your career advancement
- Prepare for a critical meeting or interview, perhaps the most important of your career
- Assess your status in a recruiting process led by an executive search firm and come up with a strategy that will enable you to be a more effective and successful candidate
- Or any other career-related challenge you might be facing
