CHOOSE THE RIGHT CAREER!

1. Start With Yourself

The best place to start in choosing the right career is within your self. Ask your self the question: What kind of things do you like? Your interests are the key to your abilities and your inclinations. Know exactly what your skills, achievements and goals are along with your weaknesses. Does this four-step exercise in helping you know exactly what you like:

A. Write down a list of things you enjoy doing - Write down as many activities as you can think of that you have been doing for a long time--go back through the years, in fact. They don’t have a job-related; you can also write down what you did during your school years. Write down as many as possible, with a minimum of 10. Here’s an example from one person:

• Sold homemade goodies during Christmas
• Actively volunteered during the annual college intramurals
• Devised new database programs
• Enjoys meeting new people
• Surfs the internet daily
• Like going out with close friends
• Prepared the company’s team-building activities
• Became a participant in a popular game show
• Loves outdoor photography
• Finds opportunities to travel

B. Rate each activity from most-enjoyed to least-enjoyed - Go through your list thoroughly and reorganize it into a list that starts with the activity you enjoy the most to the activity you enjoy the new list. Here’s hoe the person in our example rated his activities:

• Enjoys meeting new people
• Surfs the internet daily
• Finds the opportunity to travel
• Likes going out with close friends
• Became a participants in a popular game show
• Loves outdoor photography
• Prepared the company’s team building activities
• Actively volunteered during the annual college intramurals
• Devised new database programs
• Sold home made goodies during the Christmas

C. Study the first three most-enjoyed activities in your list- Naturally, this would be your first, second and third listing. Ask yourself why you like doing these things; try to see what’s similar among the three. Using the first three items on the list, namely

• Enjoys meeting new people
• Surfs the Internet daily
• Finds opportunities to travel

We can see that the person in the example is somebody who likes to discover and explore new things in life. He or she is most likely a person who wants to experience something different as often as possible.

D. Make general statements of what you enjoy the most - Eureka! You’ve now discovered what you really look for in life! The person in the example most probably has this kind of general statements in mind: I am person who wants to discover new things in life daily. Now, what are your general statements?

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