This document provides instructions and templates for conducting a SWOT analysis to develop a personal career or life strategy. It includes sections for identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and provides example questions to consider for each category. It also includes links for more information on using SWOT analysis and a related life planning workbook, as well as a link to subscribe to a newsletter from the website.

1. SWOT Analysis Worksheet
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Strengths
Weaknesses
What do you do well?
What unique resources can you draw on?
What do others see as your strengths?
What could you improve?
Where do you have fewer resources than
others?
What are others likely to see as weaknesses?
Opportunities
Threats
What opportunities are open to you?
What trends could you take advantage of?
How can you turn your strengths into
opportunities?
What threats could harm you?
What is your competition doing?
What threats do your weaknesses expose you
to?
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