How to build your career capital
career capital, and you can build and control your career for continuous growth and lifelong primary income. Consider your knowledge of personal finance, where your financial capital is anything that generates value or money for you, be it gold, shares, bonds or rental property. Now, apply this concept to your career. Career capital is what you build and own, which compounds over time and gives you increasing dividends in terms of pay, autonomy, status, responsibility and growth.
Why, how & whom?
Creating career capital means your ability to invest in yourself to ensure long-term employability. Start with asking yourself three key questions: why, how and whom? ‘Why’ is about discovering and articulating your identity, current motivation, career choices, and the energy and dedication you will bring to building career capital. Without this internal motivation, the career capital approach will fail for you. ‘How’ is about building skills and knowledge that are valuable in the market and can be converted into income. ‘Whom’ is about people and networks relevant to your career, and how they perceive and interact with you. From these, you can formulate the three pillars of career capital—skills, relationships and reputation —which also reinforce each other.
Learn the skills game
The master craftsman continuously asks: what can I offer? How can I deliver something really valuable? Acquiring skills and knowledge you need is about abilities and expertise that let you deliver outstanding value for the paying customer or
