Actively managing your career – in other words, consciously choosing to take control and create and make the most of opportunities – involves five key skills: curiosity, persistence, flexibility, optimism and risk taking. Let’s start by looking at the first skill – curiosity. If you think you might score less than 5 out of 5 for curiosity, then read on.
Never before have we had so much available to us to feed our curiosity, but there is a difference between passively consuming information on Facebook, news feeds and forums, and being purposefully curious. One of our clients said that their curiosity had dampened over the years as they had become stuck in a rut in their life and job. On becoming aware of its importance for optimally managing their career, they started putting time aside to purposefully feed their curiosity. Watching Ted Talks and reading blogs in their areas of interest had a knock on effect where the more they learnt the more they wanted to learn, the more they then wanted to do and an empowering and enriching cycle of being curious, growing and adaptable emerged.
What are you interested in and what time will you put aside to feed and build your curiosity?
In our next blog we’ll look at persistence.