• Where are you now?
• Where do you want to be?
• How will you get there?

Each has practical exercises for you to complete. You don’t have to follow these core parts in any particular order; you can pick and mix as you wish. Nor do you have to do each section all at once. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither are careers! Use the exercises provided as a way to build your career on building blocks.

We suggest you start with Where am I now or Where do I want to be, so that you can start identifying where you are and where you want to take your career!

You can print off the articles and use them for your annual review; you can start them, save what you’ve done and then come back to them later. You can return to them one year after having done them and do them again. And you can save them so that they’re all stored in your very own Deskdemon.com folder, My Career.

2. The Regional Focus.

This has lots of info about your region as it comes on the site, with supporting articles full of practical advice and tips on these key topics:

• Training and learning: hot tips on how to persuade your boss to pay for your training, making the most of training courses, training providers in your area;
• Recruitment; advice on how to choose an agency, interview technique, CV writing and recruitment agencies;
• Career tools; help to make the most of your annual review, study your organisation, and use your CV to plot your future.
• Setting up your own business, with practical exercises to see if its’ right for you, and, if so, who can help you;
• Networking: information on what networking is about, making the most of careers fairs
• What’s happening in your region: up to date info on what’s hot and what’s not in your area; who are the larger employers, what help is available to help businesses.
• If you want to impress your boss with your knowledge of what’s going on, this section is for you!

3. Deskdemon.com tools

Put your own deskdemon.com calendar, email, address book, note pad and My Career section to full use to plot your next move in privacy.

Pull these strands together
And shape your future career.

Don’t leave it to somebody else to push you in a direction you don’t want to go in!