Looking for your career destination? Don’t do this one thing.

If I want to figure out my career destination, should I write a job description for my ideal next job?

Conventional wisdom dictates that, when wondering what’s next in crafting your career, you should adhere to this common practice… but there’s more to this story.

In your mid-career, if you're concentrating on your next role, you're missing an opportunity to be strategic and intentional about your career destination.

Mostly I get it -- you're finally at a level of experience and expertise where I firmly believe you can and SHOULD be creating your own role. I’m all for this.

In your early career, making that one year projection might have put you ahead of the game. Back then you had less information. Fewer references & role models. It was harder to see past your own computer screen, let alone predict the long tail of what could become Future You.

When approaching and entering peak earning years though, we are better able - and better served - by understanding the long term career destination (5 years, 10 years out) AND THEN figuring out what next role positions us to have the experiences, successes and skills we need to become the leader we want to become.

New career season calls for new practices, including the ones that got us this far in our career.

As the new year approaches - are you thinking of your next role like this? HIt me back if you’re looking for an alternative.

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