The Art and Gift of Life-long Career Planning

The Money Fit Show

Episode #3

The Art and Gift of Life-long Career Planning

Guest Name: Mark Herschberg

About the Guest: Author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success that No One Taught You, Mark Herschberg

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.

1. Career planning extends far beyond the high school or college student getting ready to graduate.
2. Approach your career as you would a 10-15 year project, planning for regular changes.
3. Different people will approach their career planning differently.
4. Questions to ask yourself about what you want out of a career, but also question about what you want out of life.
5. Reverse engineering can be applied to the process of getting your dream job.
6. Career planning for entrepreneurs and company founders.
7. Starting a small business later in life.
8. Consider your compensation as not just your salary and benefits but also the experience, skills, and network you are building on your career path.
9. The value and role of negotiating in career planning, from salary to growth and opportunities.
10. Negotiations are not just zero-sum situations like buying a car on CraigsList. Good negotiators create win-win solutions.
11. You and the other parties are negotiating “partners.”
12. Creating a peer group to benefit all involved.

Links referred to in the episode, and how to connect with the guest, Mark Herschberg:

TheCareerToolkitBook.com

The Career Toolkit book on Amazon

The Career Toolkit on Twitter

Mark Herschberg on LinkedIn

The Career Toolkit on Android or iPhone

Career Toolkit Resources and Downloads Page

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