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We often describe ourselves primarily by the title of our profession or the name of our degree. These descriptions communicate one aspect of our lives at a particular point in time. But there are infinite other parts to each of us that add competence, distinction, emotional depth, strength, and meaning to the way we live each and every day. I call these other parts our … [ Read more ]

Author: Pamela Slim | Source: “How to Build Meaning, Impact, and Opportunity with Your Body of Work” | Original Publication: Change This | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

1. Pace – options relating to the rate of career progression.
2. Workload – choices related to the quantity of work output.
3. Location/Schedule – options for where and when work is performed.
4. Role – choices in position and responsibility.

Author: Cathy Benko | Source: “Mass Customization: Building the Corporate Lattice Organization” | Original Publication: Deloitte Review | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

Author: Bud Caddell | Source: “how to be happy in business – venn diagram” | Subjects: Career (Self) Exploration, Uncategorized

Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, has met very few people who have a plan for their lives. Most are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold a day at a time. They may plan their careers, the building of a new home, or even a vacation. But it never occurs to them to plan their life. As a result, many end up discouraged and … [ Read more ]

Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

Gay Hendricks has a great little model to help us discover our genius.

Draw a square. Make four quadrants. In the lower right put “Incompetence.” In the lower left, “Competence.” Upper right, “Excellence.” And upper left, “GENIUS!”

The idea is very straight-forward: we’re going to live a much more powerful, fulfilled, happy life to the extent we spend as much time as possible … [ Read more ]

Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

Mass Career Customization (MCC) is a way to enable a corporate lattice organization that allows employees to both dial up and dial down. The MCC framework articulates a definite, not infinite, set of options along the four core dimensions of a career – Pace, Workload, Location/Schedule, and Role – as well as the trade-offs associated with choices across four, highly inter-related dimensions. In collaboration with … [ Read more ]

Subjects: Career (Self) Exploration, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Use this checklist to get a better idea of what’s important to you. It’s divided into three categories related to intrinsic, extrinsic and lifestyle values.

Intrinsic Values

These are the intangible rewards, those related to motivation and satisfaction at work on a daily basis. They provide the inner satisfaction and motivation that make people say, “I love getting up and going to work!”

How … [ Read more ]

Author: Pat Boer | Source: “Work Values Checklist” | Original Publication: Monster.com | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

Think carefully about what each of the words or terms below means to you, and then assess how they relate to what you want from work:

• Achievement (accomplishing important things)
• Aesthetics (attractive workspace)
• Affiliation (membership in organization as a source of pride)
• Alignment with boss
• Artistic creativity
• Autonomy & independence (most work self-determined, with limited direction from others)
• Change & variety
• Chaos (loosely defined environment; goals and priorities unclear)
• Community activity
• Commute
• Competition
• Creativity
• Dual careers

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Source: “Understanding Your Values” | Original Publication: BNET | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

Educational Assessment

Every career starts in a classroom. Just to be sure you did not pass over a key moment in your formal education, consider these questions as you proceed:

• What teachers did I like best and why? How did they help me learn about myself?
• What teachers did I like least and why?
• Which subjects did I like best and why? Do I see any connection

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Source: “Marketing Yourself” | Original Publication: BNET | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

The concept of the career anchor was first developed some thirty years ago by Edgar Schein, a Sloan Fellows Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Schein says that people are primarily motivated by one of eight anchors–priorities that define how they see themselves and how they see their work.

The eight anchors:

1. Technical/functional competence. The key for a person with

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Author: Anne Field | Source: “Getting a Handle on Employee Motivation” | Original Publication: HBS Working Knowledge | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

If you’re thinking about making a job or career change, the first step is to “know thyself.” I can’t help you figure that out in a letter, but I can give you a one-minute formula to help get you started:

• G + P + V = your calling.

The G stands for your gifts; the P is for passion; and the V equals

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Author: Joyce Ravid | Source: “All The Right Moves: Rational Expectations” | Original Publication: Fast Company | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

Richard Knight is a senior vice president at Keystone Associates, a premier career-transition firm based in Burlington, Massachusetts. After 16 years in corporate human resources, Knight realized he didn’t like where his current road was taking him. The process that he used to switch fields—to outplacement consulting—is the same process that he’s used to help hundreds of other people create new career visions.

1. Find the

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Author: Cheryl Dahle | Source: “Four Steps to Find Your Inner Fly” | Original Publication: Fast Company | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

Identifying o­ne’s own dreams is an intuitive process. The brain uses a system of notifications (pleasant and unpleasant emotions) to warn us whether the profile of events currently unfolding is following a desirable pattern (satisfaction) or a dangerous o­ne (dissatisfaction). To some extent, these emotions are signals to act.

According to IESE Professor Luis Huete, author of the book “Construye tu sueño” (“Build … [ Read more ]

Author: Luis María Huete | Source: “Put Your Dreams To Work” | Original Publication: IESE Insight | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

1. Live (how much money do we really need to make to put a roof over our heads, food on the table and to finance our children’s education, etc)
2. Love (What type of social environments do we need to work and live in to be content?)
3. Learn (What do we want to learn next?)

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Author: Mark Hollingworth | Source: “Resolving the dilemma of work-life balance: Developing Life-Maps” | Original Publication: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration