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Finding Out
Explore jobs that interest you and ask yourself how do my skills and interests match up with these jobs?
- Where are the gaps?
- What options do I have to gain these skills or qualify for these jobs?
- What skills do I need?
- Where is the work?
You will now have a list of preferred jobs and/or learning options.
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Knowing Yourself
Begin by thinking about where you are now, where you want to be and how you're going to get there.
Work on getting to know your skills, interests and values.
Ask yourself: Where am I at now? Where do I want to be? What do I want out of a job or career? What do I like to do? What are my strengths? What is important to me?
Finding Out
Explore jobs that interest you and ask yourself how do my skills and interests match up with these jobs?
- Where are the gaps?
- What options do I have to gain these skills or qualify for these jobs?
- What skills do I need?
- Where is the work?
You will now have a list of preferred jobs and/or learning options.
Making Decisions
Ask yourself:
- What are my best work/training options?
- How do they match with my skills, interests and values?
- How do they fit with the current jobs market? How do they fit with my current situation and responsibilities?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of each option?
- What will help and what will hinder me?What can I do about it?
Taking Action
Ask yourself:
- What actions/steps will help me achieve my work, training and career goals?
- Where can I get help?
- Who will support me?
set out the steps to help you achieve your next learning or work goal.
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Self-Assessment
Carefully evaluate your individual strengths, lifestyle preferences, passions, work style, and financial needs.
Know both who you are as a person and who you desire to b...
Research
- Brainstorm possible job options and investigate them thoroughly.
- Learn about the descriptions and qualifications for various positions, typical entry points and advancement opportunities, satisfactions, frustrations, and other important facts.
- Speak with as many people as possible that are involved in work that is of interest to you to get an insider’s perspective.
Experimentation
Internships and part-time jobs are an excellent way to sample a field of interest.
They provide the opportunity to perform some of the job functions, observe others work, and evaluate the “real world” workplace environment.
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Leverage Your Competitive Advantage
Career plans should leverage your assets, set you in direction of your aspirations, and account for the market realities.
- Articulate educated hypotheses about each...
Prioritize Learning
A person with a foundation of knowledge and skills will make more money and most likely live a more meaningful life.
There’s a similar belief in start-ups: technology companies focus on learning over profitability in the early years to maximize revenue in the later years.
Prioritize plans that offer the best chance at learning about yourself and the world. Ask yourself, “Which plan offers the most learning potential?”
Learn by Doing
Any entrepreneur (and any expert on cognition / learning) will tell you that practical knowledge is best developed by doing, not just thinking or planning.
For careers, too, you don’t know what the best plan is until you try.
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Why Set Personal Goals
- You are in charge. Personal goals force you to take responsibility for the actual efforts and progress.
- You see the small steps leading to a big picture: big goals c...
“Which? Why? What? How?” Technique
... for choosing personal goals. Ask yourself these questions:
- Ask yourself which aspect of your life you would like to change most.
- Think about why you want to change this.
- How will that change make you feel? Determine what exactly will make you feel this way.
- Ask yourself how you can make this happen and then make it your personal goal.
The Life Balance Chart Technique
- Draw a chart. Write down each of the various areas of your life (family, health, self-development, career, relationships) in a new column or line.
- Assess your current happiness level in each of these categories by giving it a score from 1 to 10.
- Think what will make you be fully satisfied with these areas. Write down your ideas – you will be able to transform them into personal plans.
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