By Paul BelfordYour career is something that you do rather than something that happens to you. There should be a method and structure in your career path driven by some sense of what would constitute success. It's called career tracking.As you fix on what would constitute a success, each new position should be sought and evaluated in the context of that goal, of where the new position will put you in respect to it in three to five years.Career tracking in the association field is especially important because so many people end up in association work without having specifically targeted it as a career, they just “fall into it.”Most associations are not large enough to allow… Read More