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Who Am I? A Guide to Career Planning

By Deborah A. Osgood

The Four-Step Process
The Career Development Program involves the following four steps:

Step 1 includes Two Parts:

  • Part A is about aligning your particular personality characteristics to career opportunities. Through a series of questions that offer a "yes" or "no" response, you will be introduced to a variety of career paths that align with your specific likes and dislikes.
  • Part B is about learning more of the specific details regarding each of the career paths that suit your particular personality preferences. This will allow you to gain further insight about whether you might enjoy pursuing any of them and if so, what might be involved.

Step 2 helps you to identify four specific aspects of your unique life purpose by presenting you with a simple exercise in word association.

Step 3 involves a free-for-all adventure with paper, magazines, newspaper, photographs, web pages, pens, pencils, markers, and any other medium of expression that you can place on a large white piece of paper that has staying power.

Step 4 is the final step - launching your plan! Based on what you've learned from the prior three activities, you will now go out into the world to connect with people, places and things that will help you to turn your dreams into realities.

Again, the most important thing to remember as you participate in these exercises is that there are no right or wrong answers, there are no good or bad outcomes and this isn't something that needs to be finished in one sitting.

This is about having fun. This is about discovering who you are and what you want out of your life.

No one is better prepared to answer these questions than you.

Let's begin.


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