Where Could Your Expertise Take You Next?
Understand Your Position. Define Your Direction. Build Your Strategy.Your qualifications tell part of your professional story. Your experience tells another. The bigger question is how those capabilities can be positioned against the industries, projects, technologies, markets and professional opportunities that are emerging next.
TBP Career Strategy & Professional Positioning™ is a structured professional advisory service designed to help students, graduates, professionals, technical specialists, researchers, entrepreneurs and executives understand where their existing knowledge and experience could take them — and what they may need to do to get there.
Available to Fellows and non-Fellows. Career Strategy is a professional advisory service and is separate from Fellowship enrolment.
Career Advice Tells You What Jobs Exist. Career Strategy Helps You Decide Where You Should Position Yourself.
The world of work is changing rapidly. New industries are emerging. Existing professions are becoming more multidisciplinary. Technology, AI, infrastructure, energy transition, trade, investment, data, logistics, capital and geopolitical change are creating new combinations of expertise that often sit outside conventional job descriptions.
TBP Career Strategy & Professional Positioning™ is designed to look beyond "What job should I apply for?" and ask:
The objective is not simply to find your next job. It is to help you develop a strategy for your next professional position.
One Assessment. One Strategy. One Written Roadmap.
Your Career Positioning Package brings together four core components.
We assess your current professional position, including where relevant: education and qualifications, professional experience, technical expertise, sector knowledge, research experience, leadership experience, transferable capabilities, existing professional evidence, career ambitions, geographic interests, areas of professional uncertainty, and emerging capabilities you may already possess but are not fully positioning.
The purpose is to understand not only what you have done, but what your accumulated experience could enable you to do next.
From Current Position to Future Direction.
Based on the assessment, your career strategy identifies potential professional directions that may suit your knowledge, experience and ambitions. This can include:
Understand Where Your Expertise Could Be Applied.
The assessment considers the sectors and project environments where your capabilities could potentially create the greatest professional value. Depending on your background, these may include:
Where relevant, the assessment may also explore how your expertise could be applied within selected projects across The Borderless Project ecosystem.
Leave With More Than a Conversation.
The Career Positioning Package concludes with a structured written roadmap setting out the strategic findings from your assessment. Your roadmap may include:
We Are Looking at the Professional System Around You.
A conventional CV review asks "How should this experience be presented?" TBP Career Strategy asks "What should this experience become?"
Professional Strategy at Different Career Stages.
Students & Graduates
Understand how your field of study could translate into professional pathways and what applied experience could strengthen your transition into work.
Early-Career Professionals
Identify where your existing experience could lead and whether you should deepen, specialise or reposition.
Mid-Career Professionals
Assess how accumulated expertise could transfer into higher-value, multidisciplinary or emerging professional areas.
Technical Specialists
Understand how specialist knowledge can move beyond technical delivery into strategic, project, advisory or leadership roles.
Researchers & Academics
Explore how research expertise could translate into applied projects, consultancy, R&D or strategic advisory work.
Executives & Senior Professionals
Consider international repositioning, advisory work, consultancy, project leadership or board-level positioning.
Career Changers
Identify which existing capabilities remain valuable and where they can transfer.
Your Existing Expertise May Be More Transferable Than You Think.
The Borderless Project is developing propositions spanning trade, investment, infrastructure, energy, maritime systems, logistics, technology, capital, data, agriculture, urban systems and institutional development. This gives the Institute a distinctive project environment against which professional capabilities can be examined.
Where appropriate, your Career Positioning Roadmap may identify relevant TBP project environments through which you could further investigate, demonstrate or strengthen your expertise. This may include recommending the TBP Global Strategist Fellowship for wider applied professional development, the Applied R&D & Technology Development Fellowship for deeper technical investigation, or other relevant professional-development routes.
A recommendation does not create an obligation to enrol.
From Assessment to Professional Roadmap.
Submit Your Professional Profile
Provide information about your education, experience, expertise, career ambitions and current professional questions.
Professional Assessment
Your profile is reviewed through a structured career and professional-positioning lens.
Career Strategy Consultation
Discuss your professional position, ambitions, potential pathways and areas requiring deeper consideration.
Sector & Project Positioning
Identify sectors, professional environments and project types where your expertise could create greater value.
Written Career Positioning Roadmap
Receive your structured roadmap outlining recommended pathways, positioning considerations and next actions.
TBP Career Positioning Package™
An Advisory Service, Not a Guarantee.
TBP Career Strategy & Professional Positioning™ is a professional-development and career-positioning advisory service. Purchasing the service does not guarantee employment, a particular salary, admission into the Fellowship, consultancy appointments, TBP project assignments, immigration or visa outcomes, investor introductions, government appointments, or admission into the TBP Country Consultant network.
The purpose of the service is to help you make more informed professional-development and positioning decisions.
Turn Your Project Evidence Into Professional Positioning.
Fellows can use Career Strategy & Professional Positioning™ to examine how their education, existing experience, Fellowship project, DESQUELET® evidence and professional profile could translate into a stronger post-Fellowship professional strategy. This can be particularly useful when deciding how to position Fellowship work for future employment, further study, research, consultancy, entrepreneurship, project roles, international opportunities, or potential TBP professional pathways.
Interested in Applying Your Expertise Across the TBP Ecosystem?
Qualified professionals may also explore the TBP Country Consultant Pathway™ — a selective pathway through which strategists, technical specialists and sector experts may be considered for future TBP country, Investment & Trade Enablement, project and specialist consultancy assignments.
Career Strategy participation does not guarantee acceptance into the TBP consultant network or any paid assignment.