The Art and Gift of Lifelong Career Planning with Mark Herschberg, Author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success that No One Taught You
Author and MIT educator, Mark Herschberg, shares key insights and practical tips about how to create a career plan. It doesn’t matter if you’re a high school student or you’re in your 50s and thinking about starting your own small business. From reverse engineering your dream profession to becoming a master negotiator in all aspects of your life to ensure everybody wins, these concepts and principles can make a huge difference in your life.
- Career planning extends far beyond the high school or college student getting ready to graduate.
- Approach your career as you would a 10-15 year project, planning for regular changes.
- Different people will approach their career planning differently.
- Questions to ask yourself about what you want out of a career, but also question about what you want out of life.
- Reverse engineering can be applied to the process of getting your dream job.
- Career planning for entrepreneurs and company founders.
- Starting a small business later in life.
- Consider your compensation as not just your salary and benefits but also the experience, skills, and network you are building on your career path.
- The value and role of negotiating in career planning, from salary to growth and opportunities.
- Negotiations are not just zero-sum situations like buying a car on CraigsList. Good negotiators create win-win solutions.
- You and the other parties are negotiating “partners.”
- Creating a peer group to benefit all involved.
Links referred to in the episode, and how to connect with the guest, Mark Herschberg:
The Career Toolkit book on Amazon
