We’re proud to announce that we’ve brought Dan Posnack on board as the Creative Director for Momentor!

Dan has extensive experience and talent when it comes web and user experience design. He comes to us after having already designed wide variety of incredibly attractive and functional web 2.0 properties. We’ll be relying on him heavily to bring our vision of the community for career growth to a friendly and easy to use reality.

In fact, he’s started getting things going by creating our official logo:

This week we will also be introducing a new landing page and a custom skin for the blog.

So we extend a big welcome to Dan and we look forward to many great things to come.

To recap this series, we’ve explored:

• Part 1: Get on YOUR Path to Success explored the importance of understanding who you are can contribute to a feeling of personal success.
• Part 2: The Manager path.
• Part 3: The Specialist path.
• Part 4: The Entrepreneur path.
• Part 5: The Generalist / Project Manager path.

To wrap up, we’d like to challenge you to think about which path you identify most with. Maybe its one, maybe its a combination of a few. The important thing is that you understand where you are and where you want to go. If they aren’t aligned, the theory could give you some interesting insight into where to go next with your career.

Now is a great time to do a quick self-check regarding which of the aforementioned career paths seem to best describe your career preference in the future based on your own interests, values, motives and skills. And the real question is whether or not there is something else you could be doing that would make you happier?

Stay tuned for next week when we’ll begin to explore another aspect of careering known as you Career Stage.

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This is part 5 of our multi-part series on the importance of figuring out your career path perspective. Click here to review part 4.The fourth, and final, path we will explore in depth is…

GENERALIST :
This career path preference is best characterized by those who gradually change jobs and career over time but utilize the foundation of previously acquired skills, knowledge and abilities. These generalists generally move either laterally or upwards increasing their breadth of knowledge and experience along the way. Individuals who follow this career path tend to prefer new challenges and assignments that will enable them to grow and develop professionally. This career path preference is particularly well suited for project and program management assignments within organizations.

Anchors and Motives:
Typical career anchors and motives of these individuals include professional growth and personal development, learning, coaching, developing others, and innovation.

Appropriate organizational rewards:
Appropriate organizational rewards for these individuals might include cross training, job rotation, project management, tuition and educational reimbursement and coaching and mentorship assignments.

Next Steps:

Being that this our last career path, we’ll wrap up this series in our next post. This will include an exercise to help assess which of the four you are most like.

To Be Continued…

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This is part 4 of our multi-part series on the importance of figuring out your career path perspective. Click here to review part 3.The third path we will explore in depth is…

ENTREPRENEUR:

This career path preference is best characterized by those interested in rapid job, career, and occupational changes over short periods of time. These individuals enjoy working on diverse projects, tasks, assignments, and business ventures with measurable and visible outcomes.

Anchors and Motives:
Typical career anchors and motives of these individuals include: entrepreneurship, achievement, autonomy, variety, risk, challenge, change, freedom from organizational constraints, flexibility, creativity and diversity.

Appropriate organizational rewards:
Appropriate organizational rewards for these individuals might include flexible schedules, short-term projects, independent contracts, consulting assignments, start-up operations, job sharing, and bonuses.

To Be Continued…

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