Most mid-career advice wasn't written for you. It was written for someone twenty years younger just starting out their career, or a self-help guru trying to sell you something.
The Mid-Career Mythbuster is designed to expose the realities beneath a set of assumptions that still permeate through mid-career circles today such as starting over means starting at the bottom, experience doesn't travel, and that a tool can tell you exactly what career you’re meant to do.
This fact check sheet takes ten of the most common myths you’ve heard, and lays out what's actually true beside each one.
Who it's for
Directors, VPs, and senior professionals with 15–20 years in (aka the people who are rethinking the next fifteen years)
What it isn't
This is not designed to be a diagnostic aid, or an action plan.
Most mid-career advice wasn't written for you. It was written for someone twenty years younger just starting out their career, or a self-help guru trying to sell you something.
The Mid-Career Mythbuster is designed to expose the realities beneath a set of assumptions that still permeate through mid-career circles today such as starting over means starting at the bottom, experience doesn't travel, and that a tool can tell you exactly what career you’re meant to do.
This fact check sheet takes ten of the most common myths you’ve heard, and lays out what's actually true beside each one.
Who it's for
Directors, VPs, and senior professionals with 15–20 years in (aka the people who are rethinking the next fifteen years)
What it isn't
This is not designed to be a diagnostic aid, or an action plan.