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Education: starting with your education, what did you concentrate on in school (explore especially university and any post-graduate education) Why did you choose those areas? How do you feel now about having chosen those areas? First job: What was your first real job after your education? (If you did not start out working, what was you first major life event after your education?) What were you looking for in your first job or life event? Why did you make that choice? Goals: What were your ambitions or long-range goals when you started your career? How did the first job work out in terms of your goals? Next Job or Major Life Event: what was your first major change in job or employing organization? How did this come about? Who initiated the change? What were the reasons for the change? How did you feel about the change? How did it relate to your goals? Next Job or Major Life Event: what was the next major change in job or employer? How did this come about? Who initiated the change? What were the reasons for the change? How did you feel about the change? How did it relate to your goals? Continue to analyze what you consider to be the major changes in your job, organization, career or life. With each job or career change, list each change and analyze the reasons as well as the consequences, as suggested below. Continue analysis with each job or career change until the present time, using this format of questions. Next Job (or Career Change: How did this come about? Who initiated the change? What were the reasons for the change? How did you feel about the change? How did it relate to your goals? ------------------- As you look back over your career and life so far, do you see any major transition points, times when the change seemed more than routine? Please describe each of these times. What was the transition? How did it come about? Who initiated it? How did you feel about it? How was it related to your goals? Using the same format, describe other major transitions. As you look back over your career and life so far, can you describe some times that you especially enjoyed? What was it about those times that made them so enjoyable? Were there times that you especially did not enjoy? What was it about those times that made them not enjoyable? Have you ever refused a job or a promotion? If yes, can you describe it? Why did you refuse it? As you look ahead in your career, are there things you would like especially to avoid? Are there things you are afraid of? What about these things makes you want to avoid them or makes you afraid? Have your ambitions or long-range goals changed since you started your career? When? Why? How would you now describe your long-range goals? As you look ahead in your career, what are the things you are especially looking forward to? Why are you looking forward to these things? What do you think your next job will be? After that, what do you think your next job will be? What would you ultimately like your job to be? What do you think will actually happen in the next ten years of you career? Why do you think this? What do you think of this?] How would you describe your occupation to others? What are you really good at? What do you most want out of your career? What values do you especially try to uphold in your career? Do you have any other comments about yourself that you would like to make at this point? As you think over the answers you have given, what patterns or themes do you see? What inconsistencies, contradictions, or conflicts do you see in what you have identified? What hypothetical situations might resolve those conflicts or inconsistencies? Now review the 8 major career categories. Using the themes and patterns in your "life interview", first try to rank the categories from 1 to 8, with 1 being the category that best describes you and 8 being the category that least describes you. This ranking should be checked with someone who knows you quite well and whose views you respect. You may find that the ranking becomes vague in the middle, but it is important to identify the extremes. As you make the rankings, think in terms of what you could most easily give up (ranks 6, 7 and 8) and what you would have the greatest difficulty giving up (ranks 3, 2 and 1). Try to think about the one thing you would not give up under any circumstances (or any but the most difficult circumstances). That is your personal major category.
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