Smart career development goals help you to plan your marketing career, using the SMART acronym as a guide. SMART career goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-bound. The SMART ...

What sets you apart from your peers? Can you speak a second language? In a room full of professionals in your field, how many are great at public speaking or understand how to work across word ...

Most people don’t think about their development plan until they hit a wall. A missed promotion, a new role, or a shift in priorities can expose just how unclear the next step really is. Creating an ...

Do you know what you want your career to look like in 5-10 years and the steps you need to get there in a timely manner? Individual Development Plans (IDPs) identify your professional development ...

Navigating career planning and professional development can feel like exploring uncharted territory, but combining proactive planning with continuous learning creates clear pathways to success. By ...

Just as the workforce has to adjust to the younger generation of workers, Generation Z has to also adjust to the older workers’ mindset. There’s a common ground—a balance to be achieved. This happens ...

Earning your degree and landing that first position in your career field of choice might seem like an exciting finish line to what’s been many years of academic preparation and training. But in ...

Many women begin the year with broad ambitions: Do more. Progress faster. Lead better. But without a clear career plan, it is easy to get caught in urgency, competing priorities, and other people’s ...

Lia Rae Edmunds was annoyed when her department asked for an individual development plan (IDP) after she started her postdoc in developmental biology. “I thought it was an unnecessary hoop to jump ...

Incorporating career development into PhD course offerings can help biomedical students better understand themselves, as well as the job market, and to adopt a 'can-do' attitude in developing their ...

Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), Managing Director, HBS Career & Professional Development, has been a leader in the career development field for 18 years and countless HBS students and alumni have ...