Coming to a crossroads can happen at any stage of your career.

Whether you’re looking to start out, stand out or make a significant move within your role, knowing where to apply your energy and focus is a common stall. In order for you to gain the best competitive advantage suited to your goals and your industry, you need to ensure you’re tracking on the right career path.

A career path profile provides you with a sustainable blueprint to form the integral core of your career plan.

Online education company, GetSmarter, is giving you access to a series of career path profiles based around specific pioneering roles in competitive industries. These profiles contain a selected sequence of jobs, skills, courses and experiences that you’ll need in order to attain and retain the career path of your choice.

Want to know what generalist or specialist skills you’ll need in five years’ time to become an expert in your field? Or perhaps you want to switch to a more suited role you never studied for in the first place?

Your career path profile is a guiding framework for you to base all crucial career decisions against.

What will the career path profiles include?

The career path profiles highlight which significant influential factors from career, education, technology and workplace trends will have the biggest impact on your career path in the future.

Backed by industry insights from professionals currently in the industry or field, these profiles will cover the following four key sections:

• Key responsibilities and daily duties associated with this role
• The career path as a whole and the prospects available for movement from other roles
• Earning potential within the role and the key skills you’ll need to increase your salary
• Education and Training requirements for the role

How can I gain access to the career path profiles?

Navigate to your industry below and select the career path profile that is most relevant to you, or someone you know.

Click on the link to find all the research you need to unlock trending skills and jobs in your industry’s career paths.

Business and Management:

• Chief Executive Officer
• Entrepreneur
• Chief Financial Officer
• Chief Technology Officer
• Business Development Manager

Marketing:

• Brand Manager
• Chief Marketing Officer
• Creative Director
• Digital Marketing Strategist
• Marketing Analyst
• Graphic Designer

Project Management:

• Chief Operations Officer
• Construction Manager
• Operations Manager
• Project Manager
• Supply Chain Manager

Systems and Technology:

• Data Analyst
• Business Systems Analyst
• Enterprise Architect
• Information Technology Manager

Talent Management:

• Human Resources Director
• Human Resource Consultant
• Labour Relations Specialist
• Training and Development Manager
• Recruitment Specialist

This article was published in partnership with online education provider, GetSmarter, and is the fifth of a five-part career advice series, brought to you monthly. View the full article here.

Couldn’t find your specific career path? Look out for GetSmarter’s next batch of profiles, due to be released in 2018.

And in case you missed it, last month’s piece was about what could be holding you back from being hired.

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