Many of us assume that choosing a new career requires deep soul-searching or a flash of inspiration. The result? We overthink our options and delay taking action.

Steve Dalton believes there's a faster, more practical approach. Rather than trying to identify the "perfect" career from the comfort of your desk, he advocates a series of quick exercises we can all use to generate ideas. Once we have a hypothesis we can start to test (via networking) in the real world, making progress and gathering evidence at the same time.

In this webinar we will discuss Steve’s “fast prototyping” approach to career choice, in particular:

• Five practical methods to generate new career ideas
• Two exercises that you can complete at home in less than five minutes
• How many career pathways to explore at any time
• How to find (and learn from) people already in the career you are targeting
• How to make confident career decisions without feeling you need all the answers first
• Why not knowing what you “want to do with your life” is a great place to start

 

Steve Dalton is the former head of daytime careers at Duke Fuqua School of Business and is the author of The 2-Hour Job Search and The Job Closer published by Ten Speed Press. In 2014 the MBA-CSEA awarded Steve their innovation award for his work. He holds his own MBA from Duke and a chemical engineering degree from Case Western. Steve writes about careers for the Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times and presents his method at universities around the world. You can follow Steve's thoughts on job search and its intersection with science and popular culture at www.2hourjobsearch.com and on Twitter (@Dalton_Steve).

• Advice on, job-hunting and interviewing, international and portfolio careers and how to be a better boss
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