Throughout one’s career journey there will be ups, downs, transitions and total changes. When a professional reaches a crossroad, it can be difficult to decide the best path to take. One wrong move could impact one’s professional advancement tremendously—good or bad.
So, how do you know whether you’re making a right turn? What determines whether the choice you make will take you to the next level or ten steps backward.
Cash Forshee, a healthcare technology professional, shares her personal story of having to make tough choices in her career. “Staring down my late 20s, I had already faced a fair share of these complicated decisions,” she writes for Brazen Careerist. “One of the most recent came three years after college graduation. I was 25, leading an internal sales consultancy at a publicly traded company. I was fairly happy, well-paid and had opportunities rare for someone my age. Even though I wasn’t looking for a new job, I received an offer to work for a small healthcare startup.”
Forshee goes on to share seven questions that helped her make a pivotal professional move that can help any millennial in doing the same:
These questions will help you evaluate, along with mentors and advisers, the best decision to make.