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STEP ASSESS YOUR

1 CURRENT SITUATION

If you’ve been actively engaged in growing, learning, and contributing
in your job, you’ll find that as you build your career, you’re also building
something else: your professional equity. Professional equity is made up of
three elements:

1. What you know. A combination of your “domain knowledge” (your
discipline-specific professionals skills and areas of expertise), your
general professional skills (the standards by which you perform
your work), and your business skills (non-nursing but important
skills such as collaboration, team leadership, budgeting, project
management, etc.).

2. Who you know. This is your professional community of
connections, otherwise known as your network. The longer
your work, and the more actively you’re engaged with others
to accomplish professional goals, the likelier your professional
network will continue to grow in breadth and depth.

3. Who knows about you (and what they know). This is what
people are referring to when they talk about having a professional
brand and/or brand visibility. It’s the sum of many, many different
touch-points that you purposely or unconsciously create as you
move through your career, and essentially it represents your
professional reputation.

Think of your professional equity as three intersecting or overlapping
circles that, if continually growing, will help ensure that your career
opportunities are similarly continually growing. In terms of your career
transitions, the stronger your professional knowledge, network, and
professional visibility in your targeted change area, the easier it will be for
you to “bridge” into that opportunity.

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