
Navigate strategic career decision making with a guide and proven tool to evaluate job changes, align with your long-term plan, and clarify priorities.
Clarify your long term life goals and learn to choose opportunities that fit your plan through a simple, step-by-step process that guarantees an outcome.
Peter Gorgeousness shares 20 years of international work and eight career changes as an expatriate, drawing on his experience as a senior director of marketing in the US.
Follow a five-step process to define your long-term strategic criteria, deepen and prioritize them, then rank and score a job opportunity against these criteria to yield a fact-based recommendation.
Define strategically important criteria to guide long-term job decisions. Focus on living location, interests and talents, salary, responsibilities, working conditions, and people you want to work with.
Define your mission and life philosophy to guide strategic career decisions, prioritizing continuous learning, outdoor time with family, ample holidays, and a balanced, family-focused work approach.
Identify your ideal living location by prioritizing schools, climate, cost, and family proximity while balancing career opportunities and personal aspirations; tailor the criteria to your needs and values.
Identify and refine your favorite knowledge areas, industry talents, and interests, with emphasis on digital marketing, data analytics, cross-functional roles, and industry preferences like cycling.
Evaluate opportunities by balancing responsibility and salary with benefits and company size. Consider international aspects, housing, schooling, and insurance, plus a role in management and profit and loss accountability.
Assess your preferred working conditions by evaluating authority to decide, office inspiration, and hybrid options, then weigh growth opportunities and your ability to perform within the industry, including commute considerations.
Please download the attached excel template and work in it
Prioritize sub criteria within strategic criteria using the Excel scoring template, then review the visualization on the second worksheet for a helicopter view validation of relative importance.
Score and compare job opportunities by assigning prioritized sub-criteria, applying weights, and visualizing results to identify the best fit and must-have conditions for strategic career decisions.
Learn to score a single opportunity in an Excel template using a prioritized 0-5 scale and a percentage met green bar, revealing 100 percent realization and the 15-point maximum.
In this course you will define strategic criteria which are important to you to live a happy life, such as your mission / life philosophy, where you want to life, job responsibilities & salary, people you want to have around you, preferred industry to work in, etc. It is all about decision making, decisions which have high impact to your life, such as your job. When you are in front of a big decisions, such as a job opportunity you can perfectly use this tool to challenge you fact based, if the opportunity fits into your plan or not. If yes, then is is great, if not then the tool will highlight in figures and visually where the gaps are. The outcome of the model is a data driven / fact based decision recommendation. The tool is tested with many colleagues and friends more than 100 times and it helped me in the last 4 job decisions to make the right choice ..... and the tool did not let me down.
If you struggle with decision making and if you are not very structured in analyzing problems or opportunities, than this is the right tool for you. It is not the golden grail, but you will get a fact based (in our case) job recommendation based on your own scoring.