After you’ve explored your talents, passions and values, you can review your job matches in each of these categories and determine which career direction may be right for you. If you’d like a copy of a spreadsheet tool to help you do this, email me. The best job matches are ones that are identified in each of the three categories, at the center point of all three areas, as the diagram here represents.
So what about our example of Graham? The top jobs that came up for him in his analysis of his talents, passions and values are:
Advertising Sales Agent (and closely related Advertising and Promotion Managers)
Computer and Information Systems Manager
Some pretty varied stuff! This is where talking to a career coach may come in handy, but that is not to say that you can’t use this process on your own to determine great career matches for yourself.
Graham works for Billy Reid as their Director of E-Commerce. It’s a small, growing, high-end men’s clothing company and he wears lots of hats (no pun intended) for them. He has a lot of say so in how is work gets done (the CEO aspect coming out in this as a decision maker) and he does of lot of sales work with wholesale accounts in addition to e-commerce sales (Advertising, Marketing and Sales coming in). He is constantly staying on the forefront of e-commerce trends has a strong knowledge of technology (Computer and Information Systems Manager) and advertising techniques (Advertising Sales Agent/Manager). I’m not sure where clergy came from, although he does have a strong spiritual grounding.
Next week, we’ll discuss more of how Graham got to this point in his career and how “planned happenstance” played a role.
