Your career deserves a strategy – not a job search.
Most professionals manage their careers reactively — updating a resume when they need a job, networking when they feel stuck, taking classes because someone said they should. Modern Career Planning™ replaces that cycle with a five-phase system that produces a career strategy that is entirely, specifically yours.
No credit card. No catch. Just the starting line.
Sound familiar?
I’m performing well. But I’m still being passed over.
Recognition is not a strategy. MCP gives strong performers the roadmap that performance reviews never provide.
I don’t know what I actually want to do.
Phase 1 starts with identity, not job titles.
I’m getting advice, but I can’t reproduce it.
Law #1: Be selfish. Generic advice is designed for no one. Your plan serves your goals — not someone else’s template.
Career strategy isn’t something you do when things fall apart. It’s something you build before they do.
A five-phase operating system for your career.
Modern Career Planning™ (MCP) is a structured, five-phase framework developed by Edward Chiang. It takes you from self-discovery to a fully personalized Individual Career Plan (ICP) — a living document that captures your identity, your goal, your advisory board, and your development roadmap. It is not a course. It is not a book. It is a system you work.
Phase 1 — Identity & Brand
Phase 2 — Pathways & Goal Setting
Phase 3 — Career Advisory Board
Phase 4 — Learning & Development
Phase 5 — Career Navigation
Three laws that change how you think about your career.
Law 01 — Be Selfish
Your plan must serve your goals; not your company’s convenience; not your manager’s timeline. Stop watching what others are doing with their careers. Your strategy has one author: you.
Law 02 — Informational Interviews Are Your Most Powerful Tool
No substitute for real conversations with real people doing real work.
Law 03 — Stop Confusing “Taking a Class” with “Building a Skill”
Knowledge → Experience → Validated Skill. Most people stop at step one.
Your career is the most important investment you will ever make. Are you compounding it?
Think about how wealth is built. Not by picking the right stock — but by starting early and letting sound decisions accumulate over time. Your career works exactly the same way. Every goal you set, every skill gap you close, every role you choose strategically — it compounds. The professional who starts building a deliberate career strategy at 28 does not simply outperform the one who waits until 38. They outperform structurally — because a decade of compounding cannot be recovered.
Not sure where to start? Start here.
The MCP Starter Kit gives you the three career philosophies, the three starting assessments, and a preview of Phase 1 — free, in one document. It’s the fastest way to understand what Modern Career Planning™ actually feels like.