Know Yourself Better to Improve Your Career

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Know Yourself Better to Improve Your Career
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• Jim Weinstein is a renowned career coach based
  in Washington DC. Whether you are looking for an
  ideal job opportunity, struggling to survive in a
  high pressure work environment, or contemplating
  a career change he has a practical solution for
  your specific situation or problem. As a career
  advisor in DC, he has helped many hundreds of
  individuals resolve their career issues through
  his out-of-the-box solutions.

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According to Jim Weinstein, The majority of
clients that he works with are unclear as to
their career goals. They almost all uniformly
admire those people "lucky enough" to have a
clear career goal, or a passion, that guides them
in their professional lives. But the fact is that
a lot of those "lucky people" wind up at midlife
(or sometimes well before) dissatisfied with
their careers and searching for a new direction.
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Essential to plotting a truly satisfying and
long-lasting career path forward - whether career
advancement or career alternative - is knowing
yourself as well as you can. Now, most of you
will understandably think "of course I know
myself," and in many respects you undoubtedly do.
But I will wager that relatively few of you can
claim to understand yourselves as fully as
necessary to maximize career success (or, for
that matter, maximum success in just about any
realm).
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It can often be tricky to sort through the
multitude of possible results that would equal
"success"to you. Friends can help - people who
know you well, and ideally for a long time, who
have a good combination of intuition, experience,
and information about you that makes them
excellent, fairly objective sources of reflection.
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Another factor to consider in examining the
source of your career goals is to remember that
many of these goals may have been formed at a
very early age, and so are very much the goals
of, say, an eight year or a thirteen year old as
opposed to a mature adult.
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