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Choosing a Career

The Real Career Landscape
If you can figure out how to get a reasonably accurate picture of the real career landscape out there, you have a ma...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
The career pitfall
Careers used to be kind of like a 40-year tunnel. You picked your tunnel, and once you were in, that was that. You wo...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
Use of a Personal SWOT Analysis
Your Personal ... S trengths W eaknesses O pportunities T hreats ... Analysis is a great tool to assess yoursel...
Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself - Creately Blog
4 Steps to do your SWOT analysis
List down the “strengths”. Knowing these will help you to be more confident in an interview or when looking for...
Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself - Creately Blog
What makes you stand out? "Strengths"
What are the professional qualifications/certifications you have? Can your expertise in some area make a difference t...
Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself - Creately Blog
How to know your "Weaknesses"
Do you have the necessary skills/qualifications to be successful in your current or future roles? Do you have bad hab...
Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself - Creately Blog
Find your "Opportunities"
Can you take advantage of any significant changes/advancements in your industry? Has new technology or industry trend...
Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself - Creately Blog
Some "Threats" to consider
Is one of your peers doing a better job than you in a similar role? Is popularity of new technologies or demis...
Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself - Creately Blog
When to do a personal SWOT analysis?
When going to an interview. When applying for a promotion. Before a career switch.
Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself - Creately Blog
The personal SWOT analysis
Captures information about your internal (S) strengths and (W) weaknesses as well as external (O) o...
How To Conduct A Personal SWOT Analysis
The key to completing your SWOT analysis is to treat your career as a business and yourself as a competitive produc...
How To Conduct A Personal SWOT Analysis
Understand your strengths
A personal strength is an asset to you as a product and can be used as a way to differentiate yourself from ot...
How To Conduct A Personal SWOT Analysis
Know your weakness
A personal weakness is a liability or an area of opportunity for growth . Examples : Disorganized, uncomfortable sp...
How To Conduct A Personal SWOT Analysis
Threats as possible Opportunities
As objectively as possible, judge your threats and determine possible ways to overcome them. Example of a Threat :...
How To Conduct A Personal SWOT Analysis
The purpose of a SWOT analysis
- To identify actions you can take to best meet the requirements of the job or promotion you are seeking. - Compar...
How To Conduct A Personal SWOT Analysis
The strongest determinants of job satisfaction are
Relations with colleagues and supervisors Task diversity Job security
What makes us satisfied with our jobs? - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Why Career-path-carving is important.
Time . A typical career will take up somewhere between 20% and 60% of your meaningful adult time. Quality of Life. ...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
The simple career framework
List careers you want/find desirable. List all careers that are realistic to potentially achieve. Find the overlappin...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
5 Conflicting Yearnings that influence the Careers you want.
Personal. The human need for fulfilment. Social. Diverse social desires that want to be relevant, important, widely...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
Uncovering your real career related wants.
Play the Why Game : Why is this something I want? Look at your Denial Prison : Uncovering your authentic wants ...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
The Career Landscape
Broad landscape. The landscape today is made up of thousands of options and the way things work today, if there’s a...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
Understanding Your Potential
When assessing your chances on a certain career path, the key question is: With enough time, could you get good enou...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
Plot your Career Path
After considering The general landscape Specific careers Where your Starting point is (based on your current s...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why
The effects of job dissatisfaction
are stronger for workers with lower tenure , better educated workers, workers in the private secto...
What makes us satisfied with our jobs? - Barking Up The Wrong Tree