This document provides career advice in 5 points: 1) Create opportunities by being visible and getting noticed. 2) Keep an open mind and be flexible to find alternative paths if initial plans don't work out. 3) Consider a "slashie" or portfolio career where interests are combined rather than separate. 4) Use social media to position yourself, build your brand and make connections. 5) Make genuine friends by staying passionate and true to yourself. It concludes by quoting Howard Thurman that the world needs people pursuing their calling.

1. Building a career
that works for YOU
Jemima Gibbons
Chipping Campden School
9 June 2014

2. @JemimaG

3. Create opportunities:
Be in the right place at the
right time – get noticed.
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8. Keep ideas open – stay
flexible. If things don’t go as
planned, find another way.
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11. Have a “slashie” or portfolio
career approach (one side
doesn’t necessarily have to
be secret from the other).
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13. Use social media to position
yourself, build your brand
and make great connections.
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19. Make the right friends:
stay passionate, be authentic
and true to yourself.
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22. “Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and
go do it. Because what the world
needs is people who have come alive”
- Howard Thurman