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As a contractor/freelancer, you interview regularly and you have to sell your skills and experience to a business every time. It can be a difficult task, but it also puts you in a position of unrivalled strength when it comes to mapping out your career path.
Do you step beyond merely job hunting, and become a career designer. That means looking at the long term, and deciding not where you want to be next, but investing in your skillset so to be sought after and relevant to take you where you want to be in the future.
It might seem a bit high-level, but what you do today could end up impacting you in very meaningful ways in the future.
Do the research and thinking now, and choose a career step that not only pays the bills, but takes you where you want to be. Harvard Business Review sees this point as being vital to a (insert link https://hbr.org/2015/02/how-to-build-a-meaningfulcareer) - but it's also key to a profitable and exciting career too.
When you're looking at a new role, think 'Will this job move me a step closer to my goal'? If not, pass on it. If it's not helping you work in your preferred industry, or in your preferred style, then you're just treading water. Does the company offer the right type of work with the right type of colleagues? If so, this could be better than the job that offers the bigger rate.
As a contractor/freelancer, you have unprecedented freedom to make micro-adjustments to your career to help it take the right course. It's up to you to take advantage. For more guidance regarding your career journey, get in touch with our team at Meadows Consulting today.
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