“Your life is a story of transition. You are always leaving one chapter behind while moving on to the next.”
Anonymous
Overview
90% video content
Minimal text and audio recordings
Over 15 hours of video content
More than 125 short videos
15 online tutorials
PDF guide to accompany the Career Dream Storm Questions + Bonus Questions
PDF workbook to support you through the Prioritizing & Clarifying Questions
Amazing resource section to deepen your learning
Research-based PPT lessons with video
Step-by-step video tutorials for online resources & worksheets
Format of Program
- The entire course is delivered online.
- Asynchronous = no personal interaction with myself as the educator.
- Independent or self-study program that you complete at your own pace.
- No group forums, discussions or personalized answers to your questions.
- Designed for educational purposes only: This program is not intended to replace the expertise or guidance of working one on one with a helping professional, whether it be a psychologist, therapist, counsellor, or coach.
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James
Who is the Career Passion Project for?
Are you:
- Hoping to gain more self-awareness and self-understanding about who you are and what you want in your career?
- Wanting to expand your horizons and explore new possibilities for your career?
- Seeking more clarity and direction with your career and life as a whole?
- A human-being wanting more purpose, meaning and fulfillment in your career?
- Yearning to weave your interests or values into your work and life?
- Planning on making meaningful shifts or big changes in your career direction or focus?
- Ready to adopt an experimental attitude, take action on your ideas, and gain momentum with your learning?
If you’ve said “yes” to any of the above, this program can help! It’s never too early or late to begin designing your career in ways that are congruent with your values
Do you also consider yourself to be:
- A psychologically-minded and introspective individual who is looking to enhance their career planning and decision-making abilities?
- A person who can invest at least several hours of time into online learning?
- Someone who is open-minded, curious, and open to understanding how chance and serendipitous events are just as important to the planning process?
- Enjoy reflection and being asked big and sometimes complex questions?
Is this you? Then you might love embracing this online learning journey with myself.
Alright, if you're:
- Considering more education this program will help clarify what is important to you so you can feel more confident in your action steps.
- Struggling with over-thinking your future then the education, exercises, and skills in this course may help you.
This program will help you gain the necessary career development and planning skills that you can apply throughout your life to feel more confident in your decision-making processes.
After all, career decisions are a continual process and never a one-time event.
If you meet the descriptions above, then you might be able to benefit from this online course.
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think!”
Albert Einstein
What The Career Passion Project Offers
I have packed so much information into this online program.
Do you need help in exploring your options and identifying what is possible? I can help you to expand the number of these options in meaningful ways.
Perhaps you are ready to gain direction and more clarity on your future career? I will help you to sift through the abundance of opportunities that you might be considering.
For some of you this might look like gaining clarity on choosing your academic major, trade, business, or graduate program, and for others this might look like helping you to identify specific occupations and roles.
If you’re thinking of making a career change, regardless of the stage in your career, this program is designed to help you get clearer on who you are, and what you need.
Maybe you're at a point in your journey where you need to let go of previous plans and goals and reconsider a new path? There is always room for changing what doesn't work.
Here's What You Get
A brief overview of the ‘career passion’ research that highlights the possible benefits of weaving your interests, meaning, and related skills (and more) into your work.
A critical examination of career passion myths and dangers, as well as what our interests, skills, and values are, along with their unique intersections and roles in your life long career development.
Over 75 exploratory career dream storm questions that help you explore your career identity today!
Address and normalize your career-decision making fears and anxieties.
Consider 40 perspective-based questions to help clarify and prioritize your career path options
Tips on how to break through normal experiences of decision-making ‘analysis-paralysis
What to consider when choosing your first academic major or educational program, or even your 2nd, 3rd, or 4th program!
Concrete tools to identify career path options, interests, skills, and SO much more!
BONUS: An incredible resource section with my favourite resources and recommended readings that you can access for free on the internet.
“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.”
Elin Nordegren
Bonus Research Section
- Learn the unique role that our interests, skills, and sense of meaning (and more) play in our career development.
- Understand the possible benefits of weaving them into your career and life roles.
- Based on meta-analyses, review studies, and experimental research in both psychology and the career development field, begin to articulate key benefits of identifying and exploring how your values, interests, skills, well-being and personality contribute to more effective career planning and decision making.
- Understand the science and hype behind why people get passionate about pursuing their interests for their work.
- Based on psychological research studies you will learn to identify at least 10 potential benefits of integrating your interests into your work and life roles.
- Learn the multiple ways in which you can apply your interests in your work and life. This is not a simplistic concept.
- Identify fascinating links between your interests and your skills & abilities!
An Introduction to the Science & Concepts Behind Career “Passion”
.- Learn what is rarely talked about in career conversations that makes following your ‘passion’ a positively reinforcing process.
- Discover how to leverage this knowledge and apply it to your work regardless of whether or not you’re interested in your work.
- Uncover the connection between doing interesting work and experiencing a sense of vigor, feeling more fulfillment in your life, and gaining greater life purpose and meaning.
- Identify one of the internal resources within you that might be more powerful than self-discipline at helping your follow your big career goals or making daunting career transitions such as going back to school.
- Learn how embracing your interests can help you persist through tough times in your career, especially when building a new career path.
- Find out what might act as a buffer to challenging times in your career such as during setbacks and times of uncertainty.
- And SO much more!
Find out how pursuing interests may increase your well-being and job satisfaction.
- Realize the benefits of becoming aware of your skills and abilities and how this can help you to succeed in pursuing your education.
- Discover how gaining a sense of competency in your work may help you to cultivate interest in the work that you’re doing
- Learn the question you need to ask yourself to determine whether your skills and abilities alone will be enough to build a successful or satisfying career
- Understand the powerful role that our beliefs and confidence play with respect to taking initiative on tasks and completing them.
- Find out what longitudinal research suggests about which factors might predict your school grades, degree level, and overall persistence in school.
- Name the type of self-knowledge that may contribute to your success not only at work and school, but also in sports and other areas of your life.
- Learn what meta-analyses reveal is a key predictor of good job performance and persevering at work.
- Accelerate your career goal setting process by learning about a synergistic funnel of energy and how you can cultivate this.
- Find out how to leverage your skills and interests to maximize flow, productivity & creativity
Learn the Fascinating Research Behind the Powerful Role that Skills Play in Our Career.
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
Gloria Steinem
The Career Dream Storm
When did you last give yourself permission to have time and space to self-reflect and imagine the possibilities for your career path?
Imagine if after completing the career dream storm you began to experience more clarity on your career identity compared to before? Would that be worth your time?
Remember, we’re always growing and changing. We don’t stay the same.
This educational program provides you with a guided self-reflection to help you carefully consider who you are today, and what your needs are as you design, shape, and take action on your career path.
First we begin with:
Understanding the Sizzling Science on Career Interests and Passion.
- Learn about concepts of “fit”, and why they have been a popular focus of research for many decades.
- List several benefits of finding a good “fit” in the context of your work.
- Articulate potential drawbacks to this concept and how it can be disadvantageous to your carving out your career path.
- Understand how knowing our interests may predict several important outcomes related to our career trajectory and success in life.
- Discover the chained links that researchers have found between our interests, motivation, goal-setting and achievement, and why it may hold significance for your career path.
- Discover the powerful and multi-faceted nature of interests, and several ways to think outside the box when weaving your interests into your work and life. It’s more than meets the eye!
- Learn to define what interests are, what they aren’t, and their specific functions.
In The Career Dream Storm Exercise You Will:
- Awaken deeper layers of who you are, and what you want in your career.
- Discover a more meaningful and refreshing alternative to doing a vocational assessment.
- Learn concrete strategies and processes to gain self-awareness and self-understanding through reflective practice exercises.
- Participate in a guided self-assessment (Career Dream Storm) exercise that consists of over 75 open-ended reflective questions to help you discover deeper layers of self-knowledge and wisdom as it pertains to your future career paths.
- Learn to analyze your answers and find the bigger picture meaning behind your skills, values, interests and more.
- Gain peace of mind that you’ve engaged in self-reflection with the purpose of making more informed career decisions.
Immerse Yourself in Examining your Values
- Define what values are and the beneficial role they may play in your career and life planning.
- List key differences and striking similarities between values and interests; and how they work together!
- Discover several specific ways in which examination of our values can get us unstuck when we aren’t sure about our career interests and goals
- How values can help you live a more authentic life
- Define intrinsic and extrinsic values, and the possible benefits and drawbacks of each type of value in relation to your career path.
Discover the Incredible Power of Identifying & Applying your Skills, Abilities and Talents
- Understand the benefits of identifying and articulating your skill sets, as well as pursuing work that builds on your skills.
- Distinguish between something you’re good at versus something you’re interested in. Learn how we confuse skills and interests when we make our career decisions.
- Learn about an unanticipated benefit of pursuing work based on your skills, even if you don’t enjoy using those skills or like your job.
- Understand the unique link between your self-efficacy and your interests, and how you can use this to boost your career satisfaction.
- Discover the unique benefits of having self-efficacy or confidence in yourself and your abilities.
- Learn about a simple and common exercise that you can do that is so powerful yet probably taken for granted by most people. Discover how this can increase your self-efficacy.
- Explore the drawbacks of identifying and reflecting on your skills and accomplishments particularly when feelings of failure or memories of setbacks occur.
- Find out a few potential benefits of reflecting on personal setbacks in your life – it might be a surprise!
- Learn various types of skill sets and why this knowledge is important to your career.
“All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning.”
William Bridges
Learn more about Your Personality, Mental-Health & Well-Being Needs
- Understand why attending to your mental health & well-being is crucial to promoting satisfaction in your work
- Define personality, personality traits, and discuss the various ways in which personality is talked about in the context of career development and planning
- Understand how various definitions of personality may overlap with our skills or interests. Yes, all these constructs are connected!
- Name one key takeaway on why personality matters regardless of the specific definition
- Learn the stage of development when our personality is most stable
- Be able to articulate your own unique needs with respect to your mental-health and well-being at work.
- Understand why it’s important to reflect your ideal lifestyle, leisure needs and even your hobbies, and what implications it might have for your career.
- Get clear on aspects of your dream workplace environment, and identify several questions to ask yourself about your preferred workplace environment
“She knew this transition was not about becoming someone better, but about finally allowing herself to become who she’d always been.”
Amy Rubin
Clarifying Your Career Direction
Help! I have NO idea what career path directions, options, and jobs exist! I’m SO lost!
I will help you to brainstorm and name a few different career directions (and even specific occupations if needed)
- Get concrete steps and recorded tutorials to generate a list of professional career path options that you are considering.
- Learn how to apply your self-reflection to help you discern between your most compatible jobs and career paths, career transitions, educational programs and courses, and other choices around volunteer, committee or board positions, or particular professional development.
- Discover ways to use your self knowledge as your criteria in helping you evaluate key decisions in your career development journey.
- Embrace your self-awareness and learn how to explore, expand upon, and then clarify, narrow, and articulate your skills, interests, well-being needs as well as other important aspects of yourself that you believe might be important in your career decision-making process.
Maybe you’re already aware of detailed options, however, you struggle to choose a general direction or focus?
Do You Struggle with Analysis-Paralysis When it’s Time to Make Decisions?
If so, I can help! You will learn to:
- Discover your own unique style of decision-making, and how you can apply this to various aspects of your career development and planning.
- Choose from several strategies backed by research to help you engage in your decision-making process.
- Name a common myth of career decision-making which may help to reduce stress and pressure, and improve the quality of your career planning.
- Identify 7 thinking traps that might prevent you from moving forward with your career development and actions.
- Consider examples of how to embrace more effective mindsets that will assist you.
- Examine 4 common fears that might arise during the context of career planning, and examples of how a person might manage those fears to get unstuck
- Learn to identify and name your own personal beliefs and thoughts that may be contributing to holding you back from finding more satisfaction in your career.
- Accelerate your ability to make more effective career and education decisions.
Let’s Begin Prioritizing Together
Are you finding it hard to clarify or prioritize your many ideas for your future? Depending where you are in your career development, you might not even be ready to prioritize and choose a direction. This is normal and expected. It may also be important to focus on expanding all your options first. If this is you, you’ll especially enjoy the earlier parts of this course.
But for some of you, you might have already generated many different options for yourself.
Perhaps you’re feeling drained from a “scattered-brain”? Or maybe you’re feeling stuck in that common feeling of “analysis paralysis”?
Are you jumping aimlessly from one job or educational program to the next, not really knowing what you are doing or what is going to make you feel satisfied?
If this is you, it is my hope that this program will help you get unstuck!
It’s normal to feel scattered and lost – by the way, it’s all a natural part of the career development process and how we learn about who we are and what we’re interested in.
But, many folks find themselves constantly procrastinating out of confusion and fear of making the wrong decisions about their education and career. It can rob a person of their ability to be open-minded and experiment with helpful action steps and to learn more.
I always tell people, there is no such thing as right or wrong (you’ll hear this many times in my course), however, I GET that you want to be more intentional in your career choices.
Sometimes we feel excited yet overwhelmed by all of our great ideas but then we lack the focus and clarity to make a decision or find a direction that we feel confident about. This is such a normal part of the career development journey…
If you’re experiencing any of the above, you’re a completely normal human-being! But, I can still help you with your goals of finding more direction…
We can be lost and confused AND gain direction at the same time!
Okay, have you ever experienced the following?
You have finished your education but you’re still unsure of what you want to do?
Have you invested in an education only to feel like you’ve reached another cross-road again, and you aren’t sure how to proceed?
- Receive over 30 examples of perspective-taking questions to help you think flexibly about which career path directions might be compatible for you.
- Consider prioritizing perspectives that are based on whichever of your personal needs are most important to you.
- For example, there are perspectives that highlight your well-being needs, entrepreneurial interests, growth and advancement, your interests, and maximizing best use of your skills, and more!
- Discover the power of asking yourself helpful questions and learn some of the drawbacks of using others’ perspectives and questions.
- Learn how to evaluate if a question you’re asking is helpful. Deconstruct the assumptions and values behind the questions we ask ourselves.
Together, We Will Prioritize and Clarify Your Career Path Options
Can you relate to this? Many people do!
You have the experience of “shiny-object syndrome” that prevents you from working toward what truly matters?
You are passionate and interested in SO many different things and it prevents you from taking any action at all?
I know what this feels like, and so I’ve developed many perspective-taking questions to help you explore and refine your career direction. I also share my own personal experiences and stories to normalize this!
- Reflect on the ways in which your motivation and ability to take action might impact each of your career path choices.
- Try on perspectives that encourage you to examine the role that your commitmen and renewed interest might play with each of your choices over the longer-term.
- Consider perspectives that help you review past experiences for clues on which career paths might be the most satisfying.
- Ponder the unique role that money and finances may play in consideration of each of your career path options.
First, I’ll help you to try on prioritizing perspectives based on what interests you. Together we will:
Now, have you ever experienced the following?:
You feel stuck because you’re good at TOO many things?
You’re stuck because you know you’re capable of doing and learning whatever you set your mind to?
Perhaps you worry about what skills you have, if any? You doubt and question yourself?
Or, you maybe worry that you’re a jack of all trades and master of none?
I know how painful this can feel! It can spin us in circles!
These experiences are completely normal to have, however it doesn’t mean they need to paralyze us from moving forward and taking steps with what’s important.
- Experiment with 7 thought-provoking questions that highlight the unique role of your strengths in prioritizing your options.
- Questions to help you evaluate how important it is to strive to be your absolute best in your work.
- Consider perspectives that highlight issues around the importance of having control and autonomy over your skill development
- Reflect on how important the values of achievement, advancement, competitiveness and linearity is in relation to choosing your next career path.
- Consider the unique role of your strengths versus weaknesses, and what this means for making your decisions.
- Discover the ironic connection between interests and skills as you clarify your career direction
- Try on perspectives that highlight strategic thinking, and discover what relevance if any it plays in your decision making.
Let me help you gain clarity by considering some unique perspectives based on your skills, abilities and talents!:
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.”
Anonymous Proverb
Is This You?
Since the pandemic, I really want to find a way to work remotely or have my own business but I have no idea what to do.
I really want to start a business but the options are endless! What should I do?
I have so many hobbies and want to turn one of them into a money-making opportunity but just can’t figure out what direction to head in.
Gosh, aren’t these the questions so many of us have been asking...?
- Compare and contrast your business and entrepreneurship ideas by considering what I refer to as the entrepreneurial multiplication of outcomes factor, and how this principle might help you leverage your business success.
- Drawing on the success of Disney World and Google, consider insights from these company’s growth that might help you to prioritize your own business ideas.
- Examine which options have the “Disney entrepreneurial spark”
- Consider how compatible your own values are with entrepreneurship, and each of your possible ideas.
Together, we’ll do some prioritization based on entrepreneurial perspectives:
Do you Say this To Yourself?
I know my values and skills, however, I can’t seem to figure out which career fields would be best for me to focus on.
I know what I want to do but I don’t know which companies or sectors I’m interested in working for.
All the prioritization perspectives in this course will help you to gain some clarity on these questions...
- Learn how to consider the unique needs of your own mental health and how each career path option might impact this.
- Review which career paths might help you to maintain your sense of well-being or be conducive to improving it.
- Consider various perspectives that draw on your own cultural identity, and the cultural identity of the workplaces that you are considering.
I will also help you to consider ways of prioritizing based on your well-being and workplace culture needs:
BONUS, BONUS, BONUS!
This Program Just Wasn’t Complete Until I Included the Following:
Learn how to Breakthrough Analysis-Paralysis in Your Decision-Making
10 videos to help you figure out multiple mental pathways and specific actions to help manage “analysis-paralysis” and get yourself unstuck from indecision.
Your brain loves to protect you (which can feel like getting paralyzed), but sometimes you need to move past this and gain some momentum!
Are You Planning on Taking More Education?
Enhance your confidence and decision making before you invest in more education and courses
Do you ever feel intimidated by all the jobs and career paths that exist, and don’t have a clue which direction to go?
No problem - I’ll provide you with my “Best Tips” on How to Choose an Academic Program or University/College Major:
- Learn several strategies and perspectives that will help you gain clarity on which educational program or major might be most compatible.
- Gain perspectives that take the pressure off making the “right” decision. There is no right or wrong...
Can you relate to this?
Are you worried about enrolling in another educational program or degree only to still feel confused about your career direction?
Have you signed up and dropped out of several educational or degree programs?
Is your savings account now empty because you keep changing your mind on what education to pursue? Many of us have been here before!
If you’re returning to school again and want to invest wisely, I might be able to help you. You’ll learn tips on how to choose your 2nd, 3rd or even 4th educational program!
More than ever people are returning to school because it’s common to change careers MULTIPLE times throughout your life!
- Discover some pointers to keep in mind when returning to school later in life or for a second educational degree or program.
- Learn to clarify what you’re really hoping to achieve by returning to school with these several principles.
What if I still don’t know what I want to do?
If you’re still feeling lost, confused, and stuck I also have a final section on some strategies that might contain more creative solutions for you.
So, - are you excited to start this online learning journey with me?
But first, let’s be realistic, also.
Warning: This program is not for you if you’re:
- Looking for a quick cookie-cutter solution, that gives you super specific advice. This program may not be helpful. In fact, it might frustrate you even more!
- Wanting one-track simplistic advice such as “just do what you’re good at”, “follow your passion/purpose,” “just identify your values”, “follow the money”, or “do what’s in-demand”, - then you might be disappointed.
- Needing one-on-one personalized assistance such as coaching or counselling.
- Wanting help with resumes, cover letters, your job search or learning to sell yourself while networking. Nope, that’s not part of this journey.
This program does not aim to give you the one answer or secret to a fulfilling career but rather helps you do the difficult work of self-reflection and understanding of what is most important to you throughout your career development.
This program is designed to help provided a meaningful direction or clarity, one that enables you to take action steps moving forward...
About the Author
Allison Foskett is a Registered Psychologist and owner of Diamond Career Counselling & Psychological Services in Edmonton, Alberta.
She provides counselling to adults and couples, and treats a broad range of concerns including workplace and career concerns; depressive, anxiety, as well as trauma and stressor-related disorders.
Her passion and dedication for educating others can be witnessed through several years of experience planning and delivering educational workshops for organizations, as well as, acting as an Instructor and Teaching Assistant for courses at the undergraduate and master’s level.
Her effort to advance psychological research and education can be found in her academic presentations as well as her two published psychological self-help books. Allison holds a Hons. B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, a Master’s of Science degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Calgary, and a PhD in Counselling Psychology from the University of Alberta.
Curriculum - Overview of Content
- 1. Introduction - What's So Interesting About Our Interests? (11:10)
- 1. a) What Fills Your Bucket? (6:58)
- 1. b) What Fills Your Bucket? (10:44)
- 1. c) What Fills Your Bucket? (8:02)
- 2. What Is Sustainable to Your Mental Health and Well Being? (12:04)
- 3. Can You 'Star' in Your Own Talent Show? (15:48)
- 4. Developing Peak Performance at Work (18:01)
- 5. Peak performance in school (12:03)
- 6. How Much is Your 'Passion' Really Worth? (13:44)
- 7. Embracing Continuous Improvement & Learning - Part 1 (2:59)
- 7. Embracing Continuous Improvement and Learning - Part 2 (6:35)
- 8. Short-Term Love Affair or Long Term Commitment? Does it Matter? (16:29)
- 9. Passion May Help Light a Fire of Persistence (19:20)
- 10. Passion as a Vehicle to Maximize Flow - Part 1 (11:09)
- 10. Passion as a Vehicle to Maximize Flow - Part 2 (9:55)
- Career Passion Myths (11:29)
- Career Dream Storm Workbook
- Introduction to the Career Dream Storm (2:32)
- Career Dream Storm - Preparation (7:43)
- The Psychology of Achievement Story (3:37)
- 1. Career Dream Storm - What Lights Your Spark? (16:09)
- Childhood fantasies - Playing School Teacher Story (2:39)
- 2. Career Dream Storm - Interests - Childhood Career Fantasies (4:37)
- School Day Memories - Aerobics Story (3:32)
- 3. Career Dream Storm - Interests - School Day Memories (7:53)
- Learning Love Affairs at the Library - Story (4:11)
- 4. Career Dream Storm - Interests - Learning Love Affairs (5:38)
- Finding My 'Home' Story (3:47)
- 5. Career Dream Storm - Interests - Your Career Path Thus Far (4:47)
- 6. Career Dream Storm - Interests - Meaning making (18:19)
- Research Overview: A Closer Look at Our Skills and Abilities (15:26)
- What's in Your Treasure Chest of Talent - School Memory Box Story (4:52)
- 1. Career Dream Storm - Skills - School Accomplishments (8:26)
- 2. Career Dream Storm - Skills - Life and Career Path Successes (8:58)
- 3. Career Dream Storm - Skills - Where do you Shine Bright? (8:11)
- 4. Career Dream Storm - Skills - Meaning Making (6:31)
- 1. a. Brainstorming & Identifying Types of Skills (10:32)
- 1. b. The Short Cut Method to Discovering Your Skills (7:02)
- 2. Name & Claim Your Super Powers through STAR Story Telling (14:40)
- 3. Visual Mind Map to Discovering Your Skills (4:15)
- 4. The 2-Step Formula to Naming without Bragging (3:09)
- 5. Cataloguing and Indexing Skills Within Success Stories (3:23)
- 6. Make it Stick, "Fire and Wire" Mind Map - Categories and Named Stories (3:44)
- 7. Success Story Flow Chart (2:31)
- Research on Values: Seeing the Forest from the Trees - Part 1 (10:10)
- Research on Values: Seeing the Forest from the Trees - Part 2 (11:36)
- Values Story - Intro - Centrality of Work (5:09)
- 1. Career Dream Storm - Values - What Values Guide Your Journey? (6:08)
- 2. Career Dream Storm - Values - Life Calling & Purpose (10:54)
- 3. Career Dream Storm - Values - Life, Death & Aging (5:50)
- 4. Career Dream Storm - Values - Meaning-Making (3:57)
- How to brainstorm career path options
- #1 From Keywords to Career Paths in a few Clicks! (One of the most comprehensive websites in the USA) (4:39)
- #2 From Keywords to Career Paths in a few Clicks! (A Canadian website) (4:37)
- #3 Cast a Broad Net Searching based on Industries and Job Families (4:34)
- #4 Brainstorm Careers Based On Job Titles, Future Outlook, Wage/Salary, and Fields of Study (Alberta Website) (4:04)
- #5 Identify Tons of Occupations Based on Your Education and Coursework (4:14)
- #6 Find More Career Paths Based on your Degree Major and Interests (2:56)
- #7 From Transferrable Skills to New Occupations (3:59)
- #8 Identify Occupations based on a Self-Report Skills Assessment (2:21)
- #9 Using Dr. John Holland's Codes to Generate Career Path Options (3:10)
- #10 Generate Options Based on Interests and Complete a Free Interests Assessment Online! (4:00)
- Mind Map Career Paths Options Based on Interests (3:34)
- 1. Career Identity worksheet explanation (2:27)
- 2. Mind Map - Career Identi-key (6:54)
- 3. How to Create Your Own Visual Mind Map Decision Making Tool (10:52)
- 4. Comparing Career Paths with Checkmarks and Question Marks (8:10)
- 5. Decision Making Tool - The Simple Counting Method (4:21)
- 6. Decision Making Tool - Highlighting and Colour-coding Approach (3:26)
- 7. A University's Comprehensive Career Decision Making Chart
- Prioritize and Clarify Your Direction Workbook
- 1. Clarifying Your Career Direction - Introduction (4:52)
- 2. Preparation - Clarifying Your Career Direction (2:10)
- 3. Clarifying Your Career Direction Based on Interests & Passions (12:21)
- 4. Clarifying Your Career Direction Based on Skills & Abilities (20:10)
- 5. Clarifying Your Career Path Direction Based on Growth & Advancement (9:22)
- 6. Clarifying Your Career Direction - Perspectives Considering Your Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Spirit (11:37)
- 7. Clarifying Career Paths Based on Values (7:28)
- 8. Career Path Directions that Maximize your Well-Being - Part 1 (9:01)
- 8. Career Directions that Maximize Your Well-Being - Part 2 (7:57)
- 8. Career Directions that Maximize Your Well-Being - Part 3 (10:32)
- 9. Clarifying Your Career Direction - Your Brand and Image (6:59)
- 10. Clarifying Your Career Direction - Relational Influences (6:45)
- 11. Clarifying Your Career Path Direction -Cultural Identity of Workplace Environment (12:22)
- Analysis Paralysis #1 - Fill in Your Knowledge Gaps (5:31)
- Analysis Paralysis #2 - Make the Implicit Explicit (4:18)
- Analysis Paralysis #3 - Find Your Container (3:39)
- Analysis Paralysis #4- Flavour of the day or acquired taste? (1:45)
- Analysis Paralysis #5 - How Committed Are You? (2:21)
- Analysis Paralysis #6 - GPS your Career Path Options (4:04)
- Analysis Paralysis #7 - Identify Your Sticking Points (2:22)
- Analysis Paralysis #8 - Confront Your Mental Monsters (5:03)
- Analysis Paralysis #9 - Identify the GPS Addresses (3:14)
- Analysis Paralysis #10 - Imagining the Future (2:46)
- Analysis Paralysis #11 - Shifting Interests and Needs (2:18)
- Analysis Paralysis #12 - Crucial Action Experiments (3:32)
- Academic decision making #1- Expand Your Horizons (5:58)
- Academic decision making #2 - Examine the Journey and Destination (5:48)
- Academic decision making #3 - Sticky Doesn't Mean Stuck (2:24)
- Academic decision making #4 - Investment Worthiness (2:11)
- Academic decision making #5 - Lifestyle Sacrifices (3:06)
- Academic decision making #6- Choosing Once Doesn't Mean Choosing Forever! (3:07)
- Academic Decision Making #7 - How Big Is Your Why? (2:03)
- Academic decision making #8 - Coping with Psychological Headaches (3:08)
- Academic decision making #9 - The Dread of the Difficult (4:48)
- Academic decision-making #10 Education that Expands versus Contracts Your Options (2:03)
- Academic decision making #11 - History Leaves Clues (2:40)
- Academic Decision Making #12 - Investment into a Skill Set (2:14)
- Academic decision making #13 - Avoid Leaping in the Dark (1:21)
- Returning to School Decisions #1 - Skill Stacking (4:26)
- Returning to School #2 - Skill Diversification (2:34)
- Returning to School #3 - Launching a New Foundation of Skills (4:51)
- Returning to School Decisions #4 Complimentary Principle (4:51)
- Returning to School Decisions #5 - Create Your Curriculum in 3 Steps (12:58)
- Returning to School #6 - If Not This, Than What? (6:39)
- Returning to School #7 Variation of 5-Why's Question (9:37)
- Returning to School #8 - Overestimate the Time it Takes (4:41)
- References for the Career Passion Project
- A Briefcase Full of Research on the CIP Model
- Prioritize and Clarify Your Direction Workbook
- Career Dream Storm Workbook
- Resources for Self Assessment and Research
- My Career Identity Worksheet
- Collection of Worksheets and Tools for Skills
- Other Worksheets and Tools
Frequently Asked Questions
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“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi
My Career Passion Project
Disclaimer
This program is designed for educational purposes only. It is not intended to replace the expertise or guidance of working one-on-one with a helping professional, whether it be a psychologist, therapist, counsellor, or coach. This course provides a collection of perspectives, research and education selected by the author. Rather than interpreting the information in this course as specific advice, you are encouraged to carefully evaluate the information within, and how it might apply to your individual situation.