Most corporate finance professionals believe their skills, hard work, and loyalty are all that should be required for career success. That is why many finance professionals never reach their career potential. The world is increasingly competitive and constantly changing. The result is that the traditional ways of succeeding will not be sufficient for the future. This course explains why you need to do more to become competitive in today’s changing marketplace.

This course begins by explaining how global changes are impacting your career and personal objectives. Then we show you how the “traditional” path is not optimizing your chances for success and how you can become focused on what path is best for you to maximize the return of your investment of time and money. You can use this to get started on optimizing your personally defined path toward future success.

Course Series

This course is included in the following series:

7 CoursesManaging Your Career

  1. Why You Need to Compete in Your Career
  2. What is The Road Map to Career Success?
  3. Target Your Next Job: How to Develop Your Personal Marketing Plan
  4. Building A Great Corporate Resume
  5. Interview Essentials and Resume Writing Course
  6. Job Interview Skills Training
  7. Succession Planning

8 CoursesThe Road Map to Career Success

  1. Why You Need to Compete in Your Career
  2. What is The Road Map to Career Success?
  3. What do You Really Want to Do? Defining Your Passion and Vision for Your Career
  4. How to Close the Gaps Between What You Want Versus Are Getting
  5. How can You Help Others to Know Who You Are?
  6. How can You Communicate with Others?
  7. How can You Sell Yourself to Decision Makers? Part One
  8. How can You Sell Yourself to Decision Makers? Part Two
Learning Objectives
  • Identify the global trends that are impacting financial professionals today
  • Explore how the steps you are taking may not be the best investment of your time and money.
  • Discover the strategic formula for providing you a strategic model that you can follow today and continue using for the rest of your life.
Last updated/reviewed: March 6, 2024
43 Reviews (168 ratings)

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Anonymous Author
Informative and experienced instructor with practical and helpful advice - like sitting with a mentor. Would have appreciated a video of the instructor to compliment the slides; I was also distracted by a comment about millenials early in the presentation that didn't seem to contribute to the overall message. Otherwise, this was a 5-star information, and appreciated the insight from a successful professional.

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This course provides me insight what are the strategic plan I need to focus and how to plan my career lifecycle. It helps me to rethink how results and relationships are equally important and building external network is one of the key success. I am currently going through a career transition and this course is extremely helpful.

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Anonymous Author
GREAT COURSE!!! I appreciated the instructor's enthusiasm and the content was spot on. I really enjoyed the instructor's approach and the presentation seemed to go by really quickly because of how much I enjoyed the content.

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Anonymous Author
This course outlined the necessity of building results AND relationships in order to achieve success. I think this is very true in business. Mr. Willwock has a way of pointing out the obvious and giving those ah-ha moments!

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Anonymous Author
This course was worth every minute of my time. Practical and strategic advice on the career competition: The formula presented in the course seems universal, which amazed me given how different cultures are globally.

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Always have heard "it's who you know and not what you know." However, something always felt wrong about that. R*R=S: seeing it on paper (slideshow) crystallized success and is a far better way to view success.

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Anonymous Author
Great course on practical steps to career success that you may not have thought of. Clear, concise, and eye-opening if you have historically believed your technical skills are all that matter to a company.

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Anonymous Author
Fantastic course on the career lifecycle and how to approach building. Has good insight on importance of results vs relationships and questions to ask when developing stateside goals.

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Anonymous Author
An informative and helpful course. It gives you an insight on the importance of having a good working relationship with people around you within and outside your environment.

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Anonymous Author
Very informative course. Provides a clear-eyed and unambiguous approach to financial career management. I like the formula for success that was presented in this session.

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Anonymous Author
The course is full of insights and information. It helps you enlighten up and awaken your personal goals, relationship with the family and to others.

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Anonymous Author
This was a good course on what it takes to be competitive in your career and how to navigate the career ladder. I would recommend this course.

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Anonymous Author
Great course that helped define Success in a concise way. I enjoyed the RxR=Success formula as a way to think about moving forward

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I really liked this course and thought the speaker was easy to listen to. He was practical and provided examples along the way.

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Anonymous Author
At 58 years old I wish someone would have explained these things to me at thee beginning of my career.

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Member's Profile
Motivating course. A time for reflection of where you've been and where you want to go in your career.

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Member's Profile
While I appreciated the course content, the course itself was slow paced. I would prefer faster pace.

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Anonymous Author
The material was concise and well presented. The examples were relatable and easy to understand.

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Member's Profile
It's an interesting subject especially for young professionals. The exam was quite a challenge.

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Anonymous Author
The Strategic Formula gave an interesting perspective on how to achieve success.

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Member's Profile
This is great course. I will definitely recommend this course to my co employee

Member's Profile
This is a good high level course on the need to be competitive in your career.

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Anonymous Author
What an amazing course! I am very impacted by it. I also learned quite a lot.

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Anonymous Author
Good to define where to go to decide how to get there. Great way to put it!

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Member's Profile
I found that the power point did not have the take aways from the course.

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Anonymous Author
Likely to provide at least some alternatives paths to true success.

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Anonymous Author
The formula of Success is correct. Results x Relationship = Success

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Anonymous Author
Sound advice for developing a deliberate plan for your career path.

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Member's Profile
Gives detailed steps to achieve career goals in competitive world

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Anonymous Author
Very enlightening, constructive and informative. Great Course

5
Anonymous Author
Good course. The final exam had some challenging questions.

Anonymous Author
very insightful course! Lots of good ideas to think about!

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Member's Profile
This really opens your eyes to viewing the road ahead.

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Member's Profile
Jim has great courses. I recommend taking them all.

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Anonymous Author
employed people will get the most from this course.

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Member's Profile
Great course! I really enjoyed it.

Member's Profile
I didn't find this that helpful.

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Member's Profile
Very good insights

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Anonymous Author
Good insights

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Anonymous Author
Good info...

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Anonymous Author
Good info

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Anonymous Author
Great

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Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Foundational

No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.

Education Provider Information
Company: Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
Contact: For more information regarding this course, including complaint and cancellation policies, please contact our offices at (408) 400- 3993 or send an e-mail to .
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Course Syllabus
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Competing in Your Career
  Your Need for Competitiveness 8:39
  Career Lifecycle 7:44
  Getting Started 6:19
  Career Paths 10:01
  Strategic Formula Number One16:33
  Steps Required for Success 9:00
CONCLUSION
  You vs. Your Competition 12:52
Continuous Play
  Why Do You Need to Compete in Your Career?1:12:41
SUPPORTING MATERIALS
  Slides: Why Do You Need to Compete in Your Career?PDF
  Why Do You Need to Compete in Your Career? Glossary/IndexPDF
REVIEW & TEST
  REVIEW QUESTIONSquiz
 FINAL EXAMexam