Corporate Survivor with Mei Phing : Career Growth In The Corporate World - Ep191: How do I find career clarity?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Corporate Survivor Podcast, where we talk about how to grow your career confidence, build your skills and value, increase your salary, and the many lessons we learn in the corporate world. For more career support, click on over to www.mayping.com. This is Mayping, your corporate leader turned career coach. I hope you enjoy, like and subscribe. If you're still looking for career clarity this year, then this will be super duper helpful for you. Hey, if you're new here, welcome. My name is Mei Ping, career expert and former corporate leader. And in this podcast, I share everything that you need to know about the corporate world.

Starting point is 00:00:40 So if this is the kind of content that you enjoy, make sure that you follow me and subscribe. So today, let's talk all about career clarity.. Now when I think about the word career clarity, a couple of words come to mind. The first word is ideas. When we are in the process of looking for career clarity, you may have a bunch of ideas that come to your mind. So this is the creative process where you are thinking about maybe I can do this, maybe I can do that, what about this and what about that. The ideas are amazing but I think what sometimes happens is having too many ideas that you get a little bit confused. First word, like I said, ideas. The second word that comes to mind quickly is the word perspectives. When I think about finding career clarity, I'm also directly thinking about what are the new perspectives that I don't know about, what are the different perspectives that I don't know about?

Starting point is 00:01:30 What are the different perspectives that I should consider that can help me find what I'm looking for? That will help me further define what works in the next phase of my career. So new perspectives could be something that I didn't know that I didn't know. So for example, maybe if you're someone who hasn't been in managerial positions in the corporate world and you're still trying to figure out, hey, actually, what does a manager do or what does a director do? Those could be things that you may not know enough to essentially help you decide whether, hey, is this something that I want to do or should I not do it? That's the new perspective. Different perspectives could be just a very different way, method and lens as to how you deal with a particular situation. And is this is the career or this is the path that you actually want to take so different perspectives usually come from someone

Starting point is 00:02:09 who's a little bit more experienced than you someone who has actually been there done that someone actually can impart wisdoms that will be very helpful for your career so that's why the second word that comes to mind when i think about the word clarity is perspectives combining the new ideas that i want to try plus the perspectives the things that I need to make sure that I'm aware of. So these are the insights, experience, and so forth. So ideas plus perspectives, then there's a third thing that will help you find career clarity, and that is having self-leadership. Self-leadership is all about having the courage to make a decision, having the courage to believe in the steps that you're going to take, having the courage to trust the process, and having the courage to believe in yourself. So that're going to take, having the courage to trust the process,

Starting point is 00:02:45 and having the courage to believe in yourself. So that is what I define as self-leadership. If you're someone who's serious to get career clarity, not just keep finding career clarity, but actually get career clarity to help you believe and fully trust and commit to the next step in your career, then you really want to consider the combination between new ideas, new perspectives, plus having that self-leadership to actually take the action. These are the really, really helpful

Starting point is 00:03:08 components to prepare yourself before you come to a certain point of exploring roles and so forth. You want to make sure that you get these three things in check first. If these three things make sense to you, then make sure that you download my five-day free career growth guide that will walk you through the exact clarity that you need before starting your job as well as after starting your job so that you're setting yourself up for success in any career. Because career clarity is just the first step and in this free guide, I'll actually go through the other four things that you really need to know if you want to have career success in the corporate world where everything's like a jigsaw puzzle and everything is connected and career clarity is just the first thing.

Starting point is 00:03:45 You can download this guide at www.mayping.com or the link is also in the description below. So go through the guide, let me know how it goes and I'll see you in the next episode.

Corporate Survivor with Mei Phing : Career Growth In The Corporate World - Ep191: How do I find career clarity?

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