{"id":2910,"date":"2015-10-05T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T19:27:42","slug":"a-career-path-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2015\/10\/a-career-path-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"A Career Path Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2911\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Matrix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2911\" class=\"wp-image-2911 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Matrix-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"CC Gamaliel Espinoza Macedo via Flickr \" width=\"406\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CC Gamaliel Espinoza Macedo via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>This week on Field Notes, we&#8217;re talking about career paths. We&#8217;ve broken this conversation down into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2015\/10\/moon-shot-charting-your-path\/\" target=\"_blank\">four questions<\/a>. We&#8217;ll dive into a different question each day this week. Today, we focus on where you are now in your career. How do you know where you are? What skills do you currently have?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2012\/08\/a-tool-for-mapping-your-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Harvard Business Review article<\/a>, Bill Barnett shares an easy to implement matrix that can help you determine where your personal objectives are best met when it comes to making career decisions. Matrices are not new tools, nor should their results be thought of as the golden ticket. As Barnett cautions, \u201cThe matrix structures your thinking, but it\u2019s not the answer. You must figure out what it tells you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have you used a matrix in your career planning, mapping or decision-making? What did you learn from using this tool? Was it helpful?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Using a matrix for career decisions via @ArtStrategies http:\/\/bit.ly\/1L1RaWv %23ArtsCareers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/clicktotweet.com\/img\/tweet-graphic-trans.png\" alt=\"Tweet:Using a matrix for career decisions via @ArtStrategies http:\/\/bit.ly\/1L1RaWv %23ArtsCareers\" width=\"73\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nClick on the Twitter logo to share this post. Start a conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Field Notes, we&#8217;re talking about career paths. We&#8217;ve broken this conversation down into four questions. We&#8217;ll dive into a different question each day this week. Today, we focus on where you are now in your career. How do you know where you are? What skills do you currently have?\u00a0 In this Harvard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[623,627,626,628,442,636],"coauthors":[519],"class_list":{"0":"post-2910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation","8":"tag-career-paths","9":"tag-mapping","10":"tag-matrix","11":"tag-skills","12":"tag-tools-2","13":"tag-where-am-i-now","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}