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Explore Your Interests / Self Assessment

The CDO and Yale offer resources and communities to help you focus, recharge, and grow.

Start by asking yourself:
• What projects/skills interest you from previous roles?
• What tasks/responsibilities are you looking to leave behind?
• What could YOUR unique career path be?
• What geographic locations are you open to working in?

As the year progresses, you may find yourself adjusting your short-term activities and goals and needing to learn about a new approach.

To help you get started, take advantage of the resources below for self-exploration and research on industries, functions, and recruiting timelines.

When mired in self-doubt – you can borrow belief from others

Even among the most successful and confident executives, self-doubt can take hold.  This can happen when we’ve had a less than stellar review; when a project has gone awry or when in a prolonged job search we have endured a …

By Elizabeth Sena
Elizabeth Sena Career Coach, Working Professionals
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Insights for Students: Get to know new geographies as part of your job search

Consulting firms are famous (or is that infamous) for repeating that the best office location to preference when recruiting is the city where you want to live. For some students, this can feel easier said than done, especially when firms …

By Rebecca Stekloff
Rebecca Stekloff Senior Director, Employer Partnerships
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What is Coaching?

You’ll hear hear a lot about career coaching at SOM. We talked about it over the summer, we highlighted it at Orientation and at some point in the coming weeks, someone will probably tell you, “You should talk to a …

By Mike Minutoli
Mike Minutoli Senior Director, Career Education and Coaching
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The laboratory is your friend: why your next career depends not on introspection, but on experimentation

In 1928 Alexander Fleming returned to the lab and noticed that mold had accidentally contaminated a petri dish of staphylococcus killing the bacteria around it.  This discovery was not the result of perfectly planned grand design but a moment of …

By Elizabeth Sena
Elizabeth Sena Career Coach, Working Professionals
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How Startup Founder CEOs Can Protect Their Interests When Stepping Down to Executive Roles

By Robert Adelson

For founders in tech and life sciences startups, even those in other fields, success often brings an unexpected and uncomfortable moment: the realization that the very company you built may soon outgrow you as its CEO.

When …

By Ivy Exec
Ivy Exec is your dedicated career development resource.
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Career Resources