Choosing a career with passion and the right values.
What can we learn about choosing a career how can reflection genrate some career ideas? Well research by leading management schools like Harvard has shown that people who have successful and fulfilling careers share the following characteristics: -
They have a passion for what they do everyday -
They understand their talents and what drives -
They are really clear about what makes them passionate and can articulate that to others. So do you have passion for your work? Can you honestly say? You get up most days excited about your work? You lose track of time because your work is totally absorbing You have great ideas about work popping into your head outside work hours You get excited by a work win.
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Learn the lifeline exercise to help you think about your career choices here
If you answered yes to most of these questions you are passionate about what you do and your current role is probably a great match for you for now. If you answered no, how do you go about choosing a career? How can your passions generate career ideas? Just to make it crystal clear | Passion Symptoms | Passion Deficit Symptoms | | Focused Energetic Creative Driven Eager Enthusiastic | Apathetic Frustrated Confused Low morale Not engaged Bored |
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Here is a kind of career quiz called a values inventory to get you started in thinking about choosing a career.
Just work through each of the value statements and rate them. When you have finished them · Identify your top 10 values then · Prioritise your top 5 in order | Values | Explanation | | Knowledge | Develop and use specific knowledge | | Achievement | Having a sense of accomplishment | | Security | Perform work not worries about losing your employment | | Power | Have control over lost of resources at work | | Status | Be recognised as important | | Personal growth | Chance develop my talents and grow | | Independence | In charge of my own work | | Leadership | Influence others to get results | | Challenge | Find work that stimulates me intellectually | | Money | Get big financial rewards from work | | Physical Activity | Do work requiring strength and agility | | Change | Have variety in my role | | Service to society | Making a difference to the lives of others | | Creative | Chance to express creativity at work | | Working with others | Be part of a close team | | Family happiness | Good life work balance | | Healthy | Physical and mentally fit | | Career Ambition | Chance for career promotion | | Friendship | Friends at work | | Integrity | Work ethically and honestly | | Detail | Task requiring precision and detail | | Location | Convenient or desired place to live | | Excitement | Novelty and drama | | Recognition | Acknowledged | | Management | Achieving goals as a result of others efforts | | Mentor | Learning from a great manager | | Positive atmosphere | Supporting and please work environment | | Dynamic | Fast paced work | | Ambiguous | Complex and conceptual work | | Helping others | Positive for society and community | | Green | Environmentally friendly | | Artistic | Artistic and aesthetic work | | Flexible | Nimble not bureaucratic | <
Another example of a careers value tool here
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