"There is almost no limit to what you can accomplish when you are willing to step beyond the options before you now, when you get clear what you most want, and when you commit yourself to making those dreams come true."
The Pathfinder
Nicholas Lore
Nicholas Lore
EXERCISES
The exercises described below are challenges to help you narrow your Career Compass search. Each of these exercises is very important in helping you gain incite into your own wants and needs, which will help show you what job is right for you. Remember, the right job will move you along on the journey toward your star. Download the assignments, study them, and complete them in their entirety- you’ll be surprised how much they help.
Taking Stock
In the first job search exercise you will attempt to answer the Pragmatic Questions: Defining your next job and Narrowing Questions: Your Objectives.Taking Stock Exercise
Asking Hard Questions
Has anything changed for you since the Taking Stock exercise? In the second exercise you will narrow your choices to no more than two alternatives in the category that you ranked highest, two alternatives in the category you ranked second highest, and three alternatives for whichever category was third priority.Asking Hard Questions Exercise
Narrowing Further
The Narrowing Further exercise forces you to focus. You’ve got twelve possible combinations and here you will pick the five that seem most appealing, and begin doing research on-line.Narrowing Further Exercise
Researching Your Choices
In the Researching Your Choices exercise you take the top three finalists on your list and re-examine your answers and priorities.Researching Your Choices Exercise
Change Course or Deep Dive
At this point you have a choice to make- you will either start over with a blank sheet of paper or narrow your target job list to two choices.Changing Course or Deep Dive Exercise
Final Choices
The Final Choices exercise prompts you to make your final choices. List in descending order the three positions you would accept at your target company.Final Choices Exercise
Selling Yourself
Begin to arrange interviews with the top two companies on your target list.Selling Yourself Exercise