Benjamin Todd

Two, go over all the six paths to career capital and ways to gain career capital in any job and note down the three next steps you could take to gain career capital.

A few ideas to get you started.

Can you think of any opportunities to work at a high-performance growing organization?

Do any graduate study options make sense?

Are there any options in policy to consider?

Can you do something where you can learn a useful transferable skill?

Is there an option where you might achieve something impressive?

And could you make a contribution right away?

Three, what's the most valuable career capital you already have?

Identifying this can give you clues about what you'll be best at and help you convince employers to hire you.

Review each of the categories.

Skills and knowledge, connections, credentials, character, and runway.

If you're stuck, list out two to five achievements you're most proud of and ask yourself what they have in common.

We've now explored which options to aim for long-term and how to work towards them.

In the next chapter, we'll explain how to narrow them down,

The bottom line, which jobs put you in the best position for the future?

Career capital is anything that puts you in a better position to make a difference in the future, including skills, connections, credentials, character, and financial runway.

To get career capital, we suggest getting good at something useful.

To do that, you need to focus on learning valuable skills, learn skills that are a good fit for you, practice for many years with good mentorship, and increase your chances of being in the right place at the right time, for example by working in new and rapidly growing fields.

Gaining career capital, especially early in your career, is vital, because it's what will allow you to become far more productive over your life.