Kathryn Meisner

Career & Salary Negotiation Coach

Your career year in review

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Every year around this time you’ll see the usual new year’s resolutions and year in review posts – I even did one myself. This year, I’ve designed a “year in review” for your career.

You can go to your favourite coffee shop and take your time to reflect on the questions below.

Or, if you’re a perfectionist or procrastinator like me, set a 15 minute timer and then answer the questions as fast as you can in point form. Doing SOME is better than NONE (“some” is actually my word for 2019).

And if you’re so inclined, I’d love to see your responses. You can email me at hello@kathrynmeisner.com or DM me your responses on Instagram.

Enjoy!

Your career year in review

  1. What do love about your job?
  2. What new skills did you learn?
  3. What helped you learn these skills (this can be specific strategies, people, programs etc)
  4. What skills do you want or need to learn in 2019?
  5. What will help you learn these skills?
  6. What new strategic relationships did you build and why are they strategic for your career? (I talk about the importance of strategic relationships in my “What’s Next Checklist for Your Career“).
  7. What helped you build those relationships?
  8. What did you learn about what’s important to you in a role and employer?
  9. What positive feedback did you get in 2019?
  10. What do you wish your boss or manager new about you?
  11. If you could summarize 2018 for your career in ONE word, what would it be?
  12. If you could choose ONE word to guide your career in 2019, what would it be?
  13. What do you want more of in your career in 2019?
  14. What do you want less of?
  15. What kind of support and resources do you need to get more of what you want in 2019?

There you go! You’ve done a rapid-fire review of your 2018 while planning a bit of your 2019!

In case you need extra support with switching careers or finding a new job in 2019, check out Guidance Counselling for Adults which will be open for registration from Monday, January 7th – Thursday, January 17th.

GCA is my 5 week program to help you find and land the job that’s right for you without relying on resumes.