Category: Career Consultation

What is Your Calling? Your Purpose?

How do you write your work/career story?

What plot or storyline are you going to write and live that will give you real work that is engaging and a career that is meaningful?

The best starting point is to have a clear calling and a compelling WHY.

Think of calling as a pathway for expressing one’s purpose in ways that make the world better.

Calling is the belief that one has been called upon to do a particular kind of work.  It is a pathway for using one’s gifts, skills and abilities with purpose.  Not just for one’s enjoyment and benefit but also for the benefit of others, for the common good.  

Is it a pathway to build or repair? To work for justice?  To bring more beauty or joy into the world? To help others?  To lead or organize? To provide for the common good?  ...

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The starting point of career exploration often is completing an online career assessment. Too often, though, the person simply takes a look at the results, thinks “that’s interesting,” and then files it away. To be forgotten and never to be seen again. Limited value, for sure.

What you need is to add value to the assessment by sitting down with a career counselor to do some serious probing and exploring.  What does the assessment’s profile mean for me? My passions, interests, values and skills?  For my future to be meaningful and fulfilling?

Essentially,  the career counselor, by utilizing probing conversations,  will guide you to identify, clarify  and integrate your key attributes.  Key attributes such as themes in your personal life story, your purpose, your interests and values, skills and capabilities. We will identify pivotal experiences and personal characteristics that ...

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