What Kind of Career is Right for You?

KNOW What do you know?

	What have you discovered locked away in your House of Knowledge? What have you chosen to learn about?
	What kind of learning is vital to your next career step?

DO What can you do?

	Skills, hidden skills, talents. Seeking and recording evidence, from any part of life. Identifying your motivated skills, putting together both claims and evidence of achievements.
	What are your red-hot skills - things you're good at that you really enjoy doing?

YOU Who are you?

	What stimulates, motivates, enriches your life?
	Do you prefer to work mainly with people, things, information or ideas? What kind of people do you like to work with? What are your career hot buttons?
	What are your strongest intelligences?
	What kind of creativity works best for yo WHO Who do you know?
	Helping others to help you - renegotiating your job ommunicating your ambitions to others.
	Developing a support network. Building your personal web.

WHERE Where are you going?

	Setting real goals.
	Seeking the right tools and support groups to help.
	Taking the first step.
	Overcoming barriers to personal change.
	Dealing with your YES, BUTs.

Make sure you know the answers to these basic questions

1 Do I want to work mainly with things, people, information, or ideas?

2 Think about your career hot buttons - do you want to catalogue the world, change the world, help the world, sell the world ...?

3 How much independence do you want to have about the way you work and make decisions? If you find it difficult to take instructions or you want to go your own way, maybe self-employment beckons ...

4 Look for organizations that reflect your feelings about rules. Are you happier working within a clear set of guidelines, or in a completely open-ended way?

5 What activities, products or ideas seem meaningful to you? You don't need to be inspired by biscuit technology or soap powder, but if you find any serious discussion about them just absurd, keep looking ...

6 What kind of work have you chosen to do, either in your leisure time or as a volunteer? Often the work we choose to do without financial constraint is a great clue to our best choice of work.

7 What kind of companies or products reflect your personal beliefs about life, spirituality, the planet?

8 Look at the skills you really enjoy using, when you are impossible to distract and rarely bored. Where could you use them?

9 What subjects really interest you? How can you translate your interests into fields of work?

10 Ask. Find out. Don't use your career as a lab experiment. Talk to people about the jobs they do. Learn from the mistakes others have made. Get careers advice.

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