Transform your Career with Hemant Deshpande:TMS07

Solving Career related challenges for Mid-level & Senior level executives can become quite daunting & complex, but that didn't deter Hemant from following his passion

After working for 18+yrs in IT industry, Hemant found his true calling in coaching mid level and senior level professionals . His goal is to help them find their purpose so that they can live their life of purpose

Today, he works with mid and senior level professionals who are feeling stuck, stagnated, or lack clarity about their careers .

He uses world class assessment tools such as Strengthscope, proven 10 step Career Reinvention Process and other powerful techniques in-order to help them to gain Clarity and also reinvent their careers.

Over the last 5 years, Hemant has coached more than 200+ Mid and Senior level professionals.He is also a mentor to CXOs as well as business owners

Key Points we discussed:

•How did Hemant found his calling for coaching Mid and Senior level professionals
•How to find one's strength , approach Career Assessment & what are generally the outcomes of career assessments
•Career transition roadmap and the different phases involved
•Career stagnancy, Career growth & Work-life balance

Time Stamps:

•03:40- How did Hemant discover his passion?
•05:59 - What made Hemant decide that he wanted to move forward with career coaching for mid-level professionals?
•08:13 - How did he plan the transition?
•18:16 - How one can go about performing a career assessment?
•24:46 - Science behind figuring out one's strengths/personality?
•26:30 - What is the output of clarity assessment, what kind of clarity can one get?
•30:26 - How to cross the bridge and steps a mid-level professional should take to move towards their ideal career?
•35:10 - How much time will it take to go ahead and make a career transition?
•40:02 - Is it practical enough to transition to a totally unrelated sector or industry?
•45:15 - Why does stagnancy begin to creep in one's career?
•47:12 - Suggestions on how to come out of stagnancy and achieve career growth?
•50:48 - How to have work-life balance?
•53:54 - Quickfire segment

Key Takeaways

1) If you plan to make a career transition, ensure to give yourself at least around 1 and half years of time. Plan it in 3 phases

•6 months of Exploration phase where you discover more about yourself, your skills, personal values, strengths, personality type as well as your interests.
•2 months for Identifying career options based on the output of the exploration phase, doing the market research, and shortlisting the right Career Option
•6 months of Preparation phase so as to Identify your Skill gaps and then work towards closing those gaps by acquiring the required knowledge and certification. In parallel also start to position yourself by updating your resume, socializing yourself in Linkedin and spreading the message in your network

2) Look at work-life balance more holistically by zooming out. Have clarity on what areas of life are important to you and then identify what all goals you want to achieve in those areas in a specific time frame and If you are able to achieve those goals in that time frame, then it means you are already having your work and life in balance

3) To come out of career stagnancy you need

•Fuel which is the burning desire to achieve your goals
•Trajectory or Direction which is clarity of what you want to achieve
•Escape velocity i.e consistent action that you have to...