A veteran career coach walks through creating a career brief in 30 minutes: write your current position, your 12-month goal, the gap between them, and one action to take this week. It's borrowed from military planning and replaces the vague career advice most veterans get.
I've got 3 moves that you can do all this week to help you. Move 1: write your own career brief. The military gave you an evaluation system that forced someone to assess your performance and document your trajectory. In the civilian world, nobody's writing that document for you. Just write it yourself. Take 30 minutes this week and answer 4 questions in writing. Where am I right now in my career? Where do I want to be in 12 months? What is the gap between those two points? And what is one specific action I am taking this week to close that gap? This is not a journal exercise. This is operational planning. You cannot answer those four questions, you don't have a career plan, you just have
