Center For Life Decisions

Career Change Cycle Stage 1: Workstyle - Career Assessment

Foundational to Stage 1 of career transition is gaining self-knowledge through exploration and assessment. Questions usually needing answers at this stage are:

What can I do? Professionally? To answer this question you need to assess the nature of your motivated skills - those skills in which you have both ability and confidence.
What do I want to do? To answer this question you need to assess what skills you like to use and have an interest in using.
What am I suited to do? To answer this question you need to assess your ideal work setting, work values, and the true nature of your personality and temperament.

The Center offers the following workshops and resources to assist you in answering these basic questions. The resources assist in helping you find work, not merely where you can fit, but where you do fit.

Counseling

Individualized assistance tailored to client needs. The Center has been assisting individuals for 10 years in developing and implementing self-empowering life and career plans that can provide renewed energy, self-confidence, and purpose for making needed changes. Details for individual counseling can be obtained at the Center's Orientation Sessions or by scheduling an appointment.

Workshops

Career Planning Workshop
Healthy Careers Choices
Work, Family & Vocation - 3 day retreat for clergy and other church workers
How to Start and Succeed in Your Own Consulting Business
Contracted Group Consultations - Inplacement/Outplacement
The Unusual, The Upbeat, and Off-The-Beaten Path Careers

Testing

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Strong Interest Inventory
Campbell Interest and Skill Survey
Strength Deployment Inventory
World of Work
Entrepreneur Report

Audiocassette

"Deciding When and How to Leave Your Employer or Change Your Career"

Articles

For information on how to obtain reprints of these articles, please call the Center.

"Working Harder and Enjoying it Less"
"Life in These Changing Times"
"Good Work"
"Do Yourself a Favor: Get Some Career Insurance"
"Do Not Take This Job and Shove It"
"When Your Star is No Longer Rising"

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