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How to Put Your SWOT Analysis to Work for You

A SWOT Chart created from orange and yellow post-it notes

A SWOT Analysis, often used by businesses in strategic planning, is a great way to determine your next career step.  By now, you’ve created a SWOT Analysis with your “trusted advisors,” so  it’s time to look at it and analyze your results. Reflect on Results Put all the Strengths | Weaknesses | Opportunities |Threats together [...]

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Thinking about a Career Change? Think SWOT.

Fly swatter laying in the grass

No doubt you’ve made some resolutions about your career after your annual review.  If it’s time to evaluate your career path, why not start with a SWOT? A SWOT Analysis is an acronym for a business analysis in which you evaluate Strengths –Weaknesses –Opportunities – Threats.  The concept is often credited to Albert Humphrey, who [...]

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Don’t Be Surprised by This Year’s Annual Review

You know it’s coming because it happens every year at this time.  Annual performance reviews are a ritual that we love to hate. Here’s why:  we are rarely prepared for them, they are often poorly written or vague, and we are not always convinced they are a true measure of our performance. Not to mention [...]

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