Career Design System
Design your next decade of work
An end-to-end career design and development platform for senior professionals who want to own their career strategy and direction. A five-stage system you can apply progressively, at your own pace.
Most careers are improvised. Very few are designed.
Career Design System
Five stages and fifteen components that build your Career Profile.
01
Awareness
Who You Are
Capture your expertise, experience and successes.
- Expertise
- Experience
- Successes
02
Aspirations
What You Want
Identify the work, the future and the milestones you want.
- Flow
- Vision
- Milestones
03
Alignment
Where You’re Headed
Test which routes and roles are a fit for you.
- Pathways
- Roles
- Development
04
Action
How To Get There
Build your personal brand, make connections and apply with confidence.
- Branding
- Networking
- Applications
05
Activation
What To Do On Arrival
Leave well, land well and start strong in your new role.
- Exit
- Entry
- Stakeholders
A career is the largest project most people undertake and the one they rarely design.
- I was passed over for promotion. Nobody would tell me why.
- The restructure decided my next move before I did.
- I earned the role. It isn’t what I was promised.
- I have a proven track record, but I can’t see what comes next.
- Everything looks good on paper, but something is missing.
- I know it’s time for a change, but I don’t know where to start.
Career drift looks like momentum, and for a while it works. Opportunities and promotions arrive and set your direction for you. Then a restructure, a missed promotion or a role that isn’t what you were promised shows how little of it you chose. The longer it runs, the harder the move. Designing your career means you choose the next move before an event chooses it for you.
Career Design Model™
Each stage produces evidence to power the next. A straightforward system that covers all aspects of career design and development - from first reflection to first hundred days.
01 Awareness
Expertise - Experience - Successes
What you design
Profile
Your Career Profile: an up-to-date record of your expertise, experience and results, in one place.
Strategy
A clear direction for the career you want, tested against the evidence, not a list of goals you once wrote.
Plan
Your moves and milestones in order, with a timeline, through to your first 100 days.
Discover where you stand
The Career Design Assessment takes around 12 minutes. It measures your satisfaction with your industry, organisation and role, what is getting in your way, and your current position on the Career Design Model. It’s open to everyone, needs no account, and you receive your results immediately.
Felt stuck because they could not see what career options were open to them.
Did not have a clear picture of their ideal career and a plan to make it a reality.
Start with Awareness
A guided, step-by-step process to confidentially capture your expertise, experience and successes.