MATCH YOUR TALENTS, PASSIONS AND VALUES TO THE JOB MARKET After you’ve explored your talents, passions and values, you then begin to review job matches in each of these categories and determine which career direction may be right for you. 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. But wait! There’s more! The best ones are at the center of all three of these areas, but is the sun rising our setting on those career areas? Are they in the horizon of the job
We’ve been following the career decision-making path of Graham by looking at his talents, passions and values to find appropriate job matches. Much of what we’ve done so far requires matching personal characteristics with specific occupations. This is a very helpful process, but it doesn’t negate the reality that life happens and sometimes you’ve got to jump start your career pathway with action that may or may not lead to the specific careers targeted in your career exploration activities. John Krumboltz’s, (who with Ed Levine wrote, Luck is No Accident), career development theory is one of “planned happenstance”. Basically, this view is that people
In all the focus on women andpersonal leadership in our recent posts, I think what is so important in personal leadership is establishing leadership and decision making that is best for yourself and being able to take it a step further by respecting others approach to personal leadership that guides their decision making. A few weeks ago while out to dinner with friends, one of my friends who was about 30 weeks pregnant shared with me her decision not to return to work after the baby was born. I could tell, although we are close, that she was almost ashamed
5 TIPS FOR ESTABLISHING PERSONAL LEADERSHIP THROUGH DECISION MAKING Have you ever been around someone that waffled on everything? Whether big or small, with each decision they go back and forth and back and forth until the decision, oftentimes, becomes null and void. Also, oftentimes, they only worry about what others are thinking in making a decision instead of moving forward based on what is right and best for them personally. By and large, leaders are decision makers. Establishing personal leadership requires sound personal decision making and being confident in those decisions. This is necessary before you can make decisions
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