Explore Your Career River
Navigate your way to a fulfilling professional journey.
Explore Your Career River
Navigate your way to a fulfilling professional journey.
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This five-step exercise will uncover where you’ve been professionally and help you consider where you’d like to head next. You’ll find patterns to inform the type of work you are most interested in pursuing, regardless of job title, and reflect on what types of progress have been most important to you.
About Me
Hi, I'm Bridget Thoreson, creator of Explore Your Career River. Despite my college adviser’s warning that there were “no jobs in journalism,” I've worked as a journalist for almost 20 years. My career has taken many turns, from my first job as a newspaper reporter through a jaunt in marketing at a national magazine publisher (nowhere near as glamorous as it sounds) and eventually to working as a consultant for newsrooms across the U.S. and abroad.
I've spent the last several years researching and reporting on the gap between the linear model of career progress we're taught and the messy, unpredictable and unexpectedly rewarding reality we experience. My understanding of my career journey shifted when I looked at it as a river instead of a ladder because I discovered how to pursue what mattered to me, and not what I was told I should care about. And you can too.
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