The Career Discovery eProgramme

Imagine going on holiday but not knowing where you are going, or how you will get there? You’d be silly to do this. You would have given it some thought. So why do some people start job hunting with no idea of what is important to them in their career?

• Have you bought career self help books that just remain on the shelf?
• Do you know you should pay attention to your skills but are not totally clear on the skills you want to use?
• Would you like to make a career choice that blends in effortlessly with who you are, rather than feeling that your job and the real you are totally separate?

Be taken, step by step, through a process to understand who you are and really define what you want out of a career.

To really make the right career decision you need to take a wide ranging view. Follow this programme and you will cover EVERYTHING to make a well-informed career decision.

This eProgramme will help you to take account of your:

• Family background
• Skills
• Interests
• Values
• Personal style
• Desired environment – people, place and style

More importantly, it will help you to draw together a range of different sources to make the right decision for you.

The Career Discovery covers

Step 1
Take an overview of your life and career: Think about how you got to where you are now, and think about the life you have at the moment.

I really like the lifeline exercise comparing peaks and troughs throughout life, it is a good way to expand and reflect on the life story assignment.
Danny G, Manchester

Step 2
You will focus on yourself: Your passions and interests, what you have achieved, what you enjoy, your transferable skills, your values and personal characteristics.

This includes a Skills exercise where you analyse how well you can use each skill, then choose the ones you want to use, and how you identify ways of developing skills.

Looking at your values includes a card sort. You choose the most important values to you prioritise them and assess how well they are being met in your work and personal life.

Step 3
Is to be creative and dream: You will reflect on earlier ambitions, and be guided to creatively think about the future if there were no constraints.

Step 4
For other considerations: Other goals you want to achieve, understanding your financial situation so you can appreciate any monetary constraints, think about the things that might stand in your way and find out other peoples’ perspective.

When making decisions you also need to consider financial matters. If you decide to retrain or take a job with more personal fulfilment but less money, then you need to consider how you will manage financially. You will identify your current position and how, if necessary you can make financial savings. Our careers are part of our life so you are encouraged to look at the wider picture.

Identifying life goals – this exercise gets you to decide what you would like to achieve in different parts of your life. It moves beyond careers to consider what other goals you have in life, as career is just one part of your life.

Step 5
To guide you through bringing all this work together to create a shortlist of jobs, making sure that these jobs tie in with what’s important to you. You go to the very best web sites to explore the jobs and conduct informational interviews.

Finally you make your decision: You make sure it will satisfy your key requirements, visualize yourself in your new job and plan for any development you have identified.

This is a 100 page written programme with 34 carefully crafted exercises. It has been written to be a guided tutorial with Denise.

Please note this is a downloadable eProgramme. If you would like the programme printed, bound and posted out to you this will be at an additional fee of £7.

Price: £35

If you would like this eProgramme printed and posted to you please order below. Please note you need to allow up to 14 days for receipt of the printed and bound book.

Price: £7

 

Bonus eBook: Working environment

Be really specific about your requirements in areas such as type of colleagues, physical environment, challenge, work pace, competition and reward

Too often some aspect of a new job – the car, the money, seduces us! We should take the time to see how much it matches up to the lifestyle we want to lead, or the type of manager and colleagues that sits most easy with us. If you define what you want in advance you can clearly weigh up potential jobs against this and make sure that the next move is going to be personally satisfying for you.

This work book covers all the elements that make up your ideal working environment. This booklet will provide clarity on what is important for you in the work environment to help you make career decisions