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Sometimes the strengths that helped us succeed can also begin to limit what comes next.
Take the Career Trap Self-Assessment to discover which patterns may be shaping your career and what deserves your attention now.
18 questions. 6 career traps. 10 minutes.
You can be progressing, performing well and still have the sense that something needs to change.
Perhaps you’ve become the person everyone relies on and your reward for being good at something is more of the same.
Perhaps you keep being approached for opportunities that make perfect sense based on your experience, but no longer feel particularly exciting.
Perhaps you’ve spent years building expertise in one area and are beginning to wonder what else you could do with everything you know.
Or maybe the next promotion is within reach, but for the first time you’re asking whether you actually want it.
None of these means your career has gone wrong.
But they may be signs that the way you have been managing your career needs to change for the next stage of it.
The assessment explores six patterns that can emerge as our careers become more established.
You’ve become very useful where you are.
Being dependable has served you well. But has being the person everyone relies on left enough room for you to grow beyond what you already do well?
You’ve evolved. Other people’s picture of you may not have.
Your ambitions may have changed, while your reputation continues to bring you opportunities based on who you have been.
You’ve spent years becoming good at what you do.
But could that expertise also be narrowing what you consider possible—or making it harder to step into something where you won’t immediately be the expert?
You know good people. But are they connected to where you want to go next?
Your network may be strong and still be largely designed around the career you already have.
You know how to progress. But where are you progressing to?
The next milestone may be obvious. Whether it is still the right one for you is a different question.
Your experience is valuable. But the context around it is changing.
Technology, AI, new business models and changing expectations are reshaping what creates professional value. Is your experience evolving with them?
You have built a career you are proud of, but you’re beginning to think more seriously about what comes next.
You keep getting opportunities that look like variations of what you’ve already done.
You are carrying more responsibility, but aren’t sure more responsibility is the same as growth.
You’ve changed professionally, but the way others see you hasn’t quite caught up.
You’re curious about another industry, role or direction, but walking away from years of accumulated expertise feels difficult.
You can see your profession changing and want to make sure you’re changing with it.
Or perhaps there is nothing obviously wrong with your career.
You just know you don’t want the next ten years to be an automatic continuation of the last ten.