Jump Start Your Career Exploration with these Easy Steps
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4 Steps to Jump Start Your Career Exploration
You've either decided to embrace a change or have been catapulted into it.
Now you are considering taking your job search in a different direction.
What do you do? Where do you start? It's time to move on!
Let's grab a cappuccino and use the next 15 minutes to explore what your next step
will be!
1. Download the
Career Exploration Worksheet
Print a copy of it so you can fill in your information as you work through the steps on this page.
2) Explore the occupations that line up with who you are and what interests you.
For a quick list of ideas about what careers you might enjoy, check out
Career Compass
on the U.S. Department of Labor's Career Voyages website.
On the Career Compass site, first choose your three work related interest areas. Next, the site
will generate a list of occupations you might like to do based on your interests.
3) Choose Occupations and Job Titles.
Based on the career description(s) you review, you have a list of occupations that you might like to pursue.
Pick 2 Occupations from the List that most interest you. Write those down on your Worksheet.
4) Evaluate your options.
Look at the list of Job Titles; there should be some that interest you more than others. Some will be
in demand in your state.
Pick 3 Job Titles from each occupation. Write them down on the Worksheet.
Now that you've completed all 4 steps, you can you can repeat this process until you find a match
between your interests, abilities, the wage that you want, and the location you are looking for.
To finish, conduct an
Online Job Search
for those new Jobs in the location where you want to work.
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