Career planning is one of those things you don’t learn about in school but what decisions you make with your career affect your future in more ways than one. No matter what choices you make regarding your career, make sure you have it worked out before you step into any interviews. Your interview is your prospective employer’s first impression of you. How you sell yourself career wise is how your employer will see you for duration of your employment with him or her. Don’t sabotage your own career.

Don’t be unprepared for interview question, “So where do you want to be in 5 years.”

Here are some of ways that decisions regarding your career affect you:

PORTLAND, OR: Hollander Consultants Senior Service Consultant Richard Safft has just been promoted to Director of Service Consultants, thus sustaining a very distinguished career with Hollander Consultants. His new position will include being responsible for all Hollander clients continuing with exact services necessary to best help them achieve their business goals.

Prior to joining Hollander 17 years ago, Safft, a native New Yorker, was a theatrical agent on Broadway working for Tom Corman and Associates, alongside noted super-agent Sue Mengers. Later, after a two-year stint in U.S. Army, Safft created his own successful business contracting services for drive-in theater industry, achieving several hundred thousand dollars a year in revenue. Deciding that he wanted to use his business skills helping others, Safft was recruited by Hollander Consultants during company’s formative years.