Career Planning Questionnaires

80% of people are unhappy with some major area of their work - could it be they have never really evaluated and properly designed their Career?

Career Profiling is a series of 5 exercises (plus 1 BONUS exercise) as follows:

Aptitude – This exercise will help you to identify the skills, abilities and experiences that you have accumulated so far on your life and also those that you enjoy performing at work. More often than you’d probably like, these two things (the things that you are good at and the things you like doing) are not the same things!

But maybe they could be in future. At least, you could discover where the gaps are and try to close them as many others have done before. For a big uplift in your career.

And by identifying the things that you don’t like doing (even if you are good at it), you will discover which activities to AVOID.

There are also probably things you would love to do but don't yet have the skills? These are your development areas which are critical to identify as you pursue a happier career and a more successful life. You will discover these too.

Activities - This exercise will help you to identify the roles, industries and situations that you might consider in your future career.

Let's face it, there are some activities and roles that you have done in the past and loved, while for some, you probably haven't loved quite so much. Are you able to consistently and systematically identify which is which? So that you can pursue the former and avoid the latter?

If you have not yet mastered this important skill, this exercise will help you (like may others before), avoid repeating the mistakes of the past so you do not end up being a square peg in a round hole.

Values - This exercise will help you to identify the personal values that you must have, like to have or don't need to have in your work and this is an essential step in your career planning.

When your activities at work are out of sync with your core values, it can cause a great deal of unidentified stress and unhappiness at work which can lead to all sorts of ailments and broken areas in your life.

While doing the exercise will obviously not eliminate that stress and conflict, it will provide yet more valuable information as you discover more about yourself and what you want at work so you can first recognise and next make a plan to minimise (and if possible to eventually eliminate) the harmful stress that you might have experienced at times in the past.

Happisfiers - This exercise will help you to identify the types of activities that you enjoy performing at work and without which you will experience some degree of dissatisfaction.

Knowing what these are will allow you to ask sensible questions in future when pursuing a job or a business opportunity to ensure that your #1 happisfier has a decent chance of being met.

For example, if say “creative expression” is high on your list yet your work is largely "follow the rules" routine, you know it won’t be long before you are feeling dissatisfied, so that might not be such a good career fit for you.

Barriers - This exercise will help you to identify the areas of your life and career that might be challenging for you as you pursue your dream position.

Simply recognising these is already a step forward.

Next is to assess whether these barriers are 'real' or 'perceived' and this will require some thinking and above all, some honesty!

Then for each 'real' barrier, start to list the resources that you might need to overcome them. And of course we have some additional resources to help you.

Then? - In each of these exercises, the Top 6 items that you feel strongest about in all 4 areas (aptitude, activities, values and happisfiers) plus the Top 3 barriers (plus “resources needed”) are then listed on a single master worksheet which will form the basis of your Master Career Plan.

You can use this as you evaluate career options to see which single option comes closest to meeting your needs.

You can continue to use it as you evaluate your future career options down the road.

Finally the 6th BONUS exercise is to evaluate how you are currently spending your time.

There is often a surprise when you look at the answers to all these questionnaires and discover how far away from your "ideal career" or "dream job" that you are currently operating.

Hmmm ... something to think about! Perhaps a part-time or full-time MLM business is what you have been looking for as the next stage of your career?

The set of SIX-in-ONE questionnaires will take you 1-2 hours to complete and each set costs US$47 just US$17.

It also makes a great gift, so go ahead, treat yourself and give a great gift to someone you care about! Just US$27 for two.