Complete Career Guide - The Entrepreneurial Route
I’ve been in recruitment since 2009 and in that time I’ve helped thousands of people find opportunities and navigate their next steps. I’ve noticed that the vast majority of people make a decision on their next role based on a blend of progression, culture, salary and the roles available at the time without having clarity on what they want their lifestyle to look like in 10+ years' time. What will my day-to-day or week-to-week look like at that point? What could I be doing now to help me achieve it?
You wouldn’t build a business without a mission or a product without a goal…so why take that approach with your career?
During Covid, I qualified as a coach and decided to use the knowledge I’d learnt to create a framework that I could use to help people think about their long-term and make more informed decisions on their next steps. The feedback was amazing and I realised the real value this added to the people I was speaking to. I made a decision to go deeper and review countless profiles and interview a number of people that had been very successful down each of these routes.
I used these insights to build this guide. It not only gives people an overview of where their career can go but also outlines the pieces of experience they can gain to give them the best chance of being successful.
My hope is that this guide will help you gain clarity and move more purposefully through your career, make educated moves, pay attention to your achievements and help you achieve the life that you want.
The Entrepreneurial Route:
The entrepreneurial route is referring to creating and scaling a business, either on your own or with co-founders, and spending 100% of your time dedicated to your company. It doesn’t matter whether you bootstrap or raise funding at the beginning, whether you hire a team straight away or once you’re generating revenue, you decide. The thrill of starting your own business, taking an idea, and turning it into something successful is unmatched. I think this is the reason why there are a lot of people who have the ambition to go down this route.
That doesn’t mean that you need to have an idea right now. You can still do a lot to put the foundations in place to give you the best chance of being successful, which this guide can help you with.
