The world has changed. Today, your career is the sum total of all your jobs, your education, and your life roles. Planning your career has become an ongoing work in progress. Knowing how to plan your career is an important skill ((Alis.alberta.ca, 2018)).

Career development does not occur in isolation, rather all aspects of family, friends, and community play a vital role. Industry & Markey dynamics, Changing perceptions and Skill sets, Culture and Network influences the career to a larger extent

The best way to create your career is to predict your career. List down the important milestones you have to achieve on a timeline and work towards it. Pause and celebrate once you have achieved those milestones/ steps

A well-structured timeline can help you to stay true to yourself. It is all about visualizing your “Future Career Experience”. If you are able to visualize your future career path and plot it on the timeline, you are definitely going to achieve the same.

How CAREER FAST™ can help you here?

Your career goals are the result of your aspiration and inspirations. All of your achievements are the result of the balanced combination of both. Everyone has got aspirations in life – for what they want to become? What they lack in inspiration or knowledge to find the sources of the inspiration. The primary focus of CAREER FAST™ model is to keep your aspirations and inspiration in a systematic way so that your ability to measure your success and progress is enhanced.

Another challenge people face when they get coaching or consultation from others is the never-ending goals exercise or worksheets, which makes the process of plotting career goals a boring one. Even though the results are so appealing, you will drop interest in the process and often we don’t make it to the goals.

What is CAREER FAST™ Model?

CAREER FAST™ is the result of Anson’s Career Coaching and research for the past 2 years over 100+ People. It helps you to identify the key factors/activities you have to do over a period of time to reach your ultimate career goal.

CAREER FAST™ has got three specific pillars:

  • Facilitator: Facilitators are the associations you need to have to experience the career.  These can be the organizations you work with, internships you pursue to learn more about the desired career. Remember, Facilitators keeps on changing when you move between organizations to enhance your career
  • Accelerators: Accelerators are the specific qualifications which will add to your expertise. These qualifications or specific education will help you to reach your goals faster. Trade-based certifications, functional qualifications accelerates your path
  • Sustainers: Sustainers are the third pillar which is super important for a successful career. People go through a lot of chaos at workplace and in the disruptive market which can derail their career aspirations. Sustainers are the factors you will go back and look for support. Sustainers can be your family, your fellowship, your network, friends, personal coach or the community you live. Sustainers or Sustainable factors are pooled from the “Triangle of Career Excellence (TOCE™)” Model. Family, Experience, and Culture forms the three nodes of the triangle

Timeline:  All of these three pillars are plotted on a sheet against the timeline. It should not be more than one page and ensure you are adding only key strategies to reach the goal. Activities, Actions, and Tasks are not included at this stage.

How identifying the factors will positively contribute to the holistic wellbeing?

Our work and personal priorities usually get mixed up and changes accordingly. People generally experience drastic and dramatic shifts change. Just think about the impact of moving to a new place of getting married on your career and life. Life Long Career planning with CAREER FAST™ helps ensure that your plans reflect your priorities at every stage of your life. Career FAST act as a support system which will help you to manage the chaos within your circles and realign your priorities to the visualized goal. Setbacks will not impact your growth since you have taken the factors into account.

CAREER FAST™ can put you in charge of the changes in your life and work.