What’s Your Next Career Move? Clarity Isn't a Destination, It's a Strategy
Most of us don’t have a clear roadmap — and that’s not a flaw, it’s freedom.
When you’re not locked into one direction, you leave room for growth, curiosity, and career moves that truly align with who you’re becoming.
In today’s world, flexibility isn’t just possible — it’s powerful.
It’s Okay Not to Have a Perfect Career Plan
To help you lean into that freedom, we’ve pulled together 5 quick-hit tips for building a flexible career path — even when uncertainty clouds your direction.
When you’re considering your next move, keep an open mind and try following this process:
Creating a Flexible Career Path in 5 Steps
Step 1: Identify Your Energisers
Too often, people begin career conversations by listing everything they’re not good at.
Instead, shift the focus — ask yourself: When in my career have I felt most energised?
Your career portfolio isn’t just a list of roles and responsibilities.
It should also highlight the experiences and skills that may not appear on a traditional résumé — including your energisers and why they matter to you.
Step 2: Assess Work/Life Values
Ironically, one of the most important steps in creating a flexible career path involves thinking outside of your career entirely.
Ask yourself:
What are you really working towards?
What do you want out of not just your career, but the life that career will make possible?
Whatever you want, identify it accurately at this point in the process.
Once you know what you want out of your job and your life, you’ll have a list of goals.
Now, it’s time to prioritise those goals.
Step 3: Create Short-Term and Long-Term Career Goals
It may seem like very few job opportunities can satisfy both your career and life goals. But that’s alright — a career is long.
You don’t need to find your dream role right away. You just need a role that helps you start working toward that dream.
Break your long-term goal into small milestones and prioritise them.
Where do you want or need to start, and why?
Your next role should help you achieve your short-term goal.
Step 4: Stay Open and Recalibrate Often
A flexible career path isn’t built in one moment — it evolves over time.
Check in with yourself regularly:
Are your energisers still the same?
Have your values shifted?
Are your short-term goals still aligned with where you want to go?
Give yourself permission to pivot.
Flexibility means making intentional changes when your direction, interests, or circumstances shift.
A check-in every few months helps ensure your career still fits you — not the other way around.
Step 5: Lean on Your Recruitment Consultant as a Career Partner
You don’t need to do it all alone.
A great recruiter offers more than job leads —
they’re a sounding board, a guide, and someone who sees opportunities you might miss.
Leaning on their insights can help you stay clear, focused, and open to paths that truly fit your goals.
At Who in the Zoo, we’re here to listen, guide, and connect you with opportunities that align with where you’re headed — even if you're still figuring that out.
Following this five-step plan isn’t just a good way to figure out what you want to do next —
it’s also a powerful way to train yourself to stop seeing your career as a fixed path, and instead as a vast network of flexible opportunities and possibilities.
Where you go is up to you. This only helps you get there.
With any luck, you’ll discover a career path you may have been overlooking all this time.
If not, you can always start again from the top.
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