The Career Portfolio Workbook

8

Developing Your Portfolio

to Protect and Advance Your Career

OVERVIEW

This chapter focuses on how you can continue to develop your portfolio

over time in a way that protects your present career and brings you

closer to achieving your career dreams.

Many people have concerns about the stability of their present

employment situation and most people have dreams about what they

hope to be doing in the future. A portfolio can alleviate anxieties and

help make dreams come true. In this chapter we’ll show you how.

Specifically, we will show you how developing three key portfolio habits

will enable you to:

Achieve greater security in your present career

Position yourself to realize your career dreams

YOUR MASTER PORTFOLIO CAN MAKE YOUR
PRESENT CAREER MORE SECURE

Much has been written about how lifetime employment and job securi-

ty are a thing of the past in most organizations these days. It’s true. Re-

gardless of how well you perform and how well you are liked at your

present job, all it takes is a downturn in the economy, a superior prod-

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