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

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  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

  

  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 s...

  What makes us satisfied with our jobs? - Barking Up The Wrong Tree