3. Topics for discussion
• How to identify your career goals
– What is important to you?
– What skills do you currently have?
4. What is important to you?
Self-Assessment: Work life values
Please do the Self-Assessment: Work life values
exercise. At the end, please list your top 5 values
for your work life.
5. What is important to you?
Self-Assessment: Personal life values
Please do the Self-Assessment: Personal life
values exercise. At the end, please list your top 5
values for your personal life.
6. Skills Inventory
Self-assessment of current skills
• Please complete the exercise found in the filed
“Career Management Self-assessment of
current skills”. At the end, please list your top
5 skills.
Editor's Notes
Your career path starts with clear career goals
In order to identify your career goals, you will need to perform a self-assessment of your values for both your professional and personal lives and your current skills.
Your work life values as well as your personal values will change over time. What you wanted when you are in your 20’s might be very different than what you will want when you will be in your 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, or 60’s. So, consider this exercise as a snapshot in time. It is about your values at the present moment, given your current personal and professional lives circumstances. When you go through the self-assessment exercises, please think in terms of present moment to 5 years or 10 years.
Keep these documents for future reference and do the exercises when you are ready to move on to the next chapter.
