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Step 3 - Ask These Career Questions
Many people confess that they're not sure what they want to do.
Our experiences have shown that the following excercises are most
useful in helping professionals identify their changing skills, needs,
and goals.
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In story or esay form, write your ten greatest accomplishments and your tne greatest
disasters. Be sure to be as detailed as possible. You can, at your discretion,
use work-related and professional tales, or those that are not, or a combination of
both. Look for the commonalities among your succeses, and then find out what
your failures share as well. This gives you some insight into your strngths
and weaknesses.
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Write several versions of your own obituary. The first should be the notice
that would appear if you died today. The second should be the obituary people
will read in ten or twenty years if you follow the most probably career path.
The third should be the obituary you'd want if you could follow the career path of
your choice. This eye-opening excercise can help you quickly put your career
choices and your job search into perspective.
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Ask three of your closest friends to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses.
Invite them to offer their input on your career path. Friends can have helpful
insights, but be warned: They can also be brutally honest as they offer you their
no-holds-barred impressions.
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Diagram your career path from its beginning to the present, noting the highs and lows.
Note whether you've consistently moved ahead, stalled, or rolled backward in your
quest for career satisfaction and success. Then ask yourself the critical questions:
Do you want to stay the course and see where the path you've traveled so far will
lead? Or is it time to move into an as-yet-unexplored direction?
Enjoy the excersise, and click
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Click
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