Legacy-based career planning is the mental exercise of imagining a time in the future when you want to look back on what you’ve accomplished and feel it was a success. The Fast Company Executive Board ...

For many academics, the flexibility of the summer schedule allows time for the sort of big-picture career planning that’s difficult to do during the school year. At least that’s what I observed when I ...

Ryan Roslansky lf LinkedIn, has described the traditional five-year career plan as "a little bit outdated" and "a little bit ...

Julie Gould learns of a career-planning framework that can help pinpoint what you love about your current role, and how that can influence future job moves. In the fourth episode of a six-part podcast ...

Career aspirations and journeys can be as unique as a fingerprint, the difference being that the former evolves. Many of us know with certainty, at an early age, what we want to do with our lives and ...

Second Sunday Series — This is the first of 12 columns on career planning post-60, which will appear the second Sunday of each month from September through August. I’m excited to introduce my Second ...

As a trained scientist, I had a fantastic research mentor. We talked about my research project, which experiments to prioritize and what the data meant, and we even sometimes discussed personal things ...

We prepare for life’s significant milestones: weddings, graduations, and retirement. But when it comes to our careers, we rarely prepare for the one thing we can count on: change. Many of these ...

Planning for a career in the performing arts is not for the faint of heart. Rejection, luck, and struggle are often the only names in the game. Instead of simply going to school, applying for a job in ...