How to Plan Your Career Path – A Free Course

Stan Christensen is a partner at Arbor Advisors, an investment banking firm where he negotiates on behalf of mid-market technology companies. He has nearly twenty years of experience in both transactional and operations roles and has worked on hundreds of transactions.

In the Alison free online course “How to Plan Your Career Path“, Stan advises doing as much informational interviewing as you can to ensure you pick a career path that you will enjoy and be a good fit for your interests. He says that when you are planning a career not to be overly concerned with a linear path, if you are savvy and wilful you can work your way into most careers. You will learn how a career/life balance is important and how a career where you are constantly overworking is unhealthy. This course will be of interest to business professionals, students and, indeed, anyone looking for advice on planning their career path.

How to Plan Your Career Path – Course Content

The course includes the following topics:

Why you should do as much informational interviewing as you can;
Why one shouldn’t be overly concerned with a linear path when planning a career;
The erroneous career assumptions that land workers in an ill-fitting career;
How career life/balance is important as an overbearing career is unhealthy;
The art of negotiation and relationship management;
How to conduct effective salary negotiations and other tips on job negotiations;
How men and women negotiate for compensation differently;
Why the last impression you make in a job is even more critical than the first.