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1. What do you 2. Find Your 3. Choose A

like to do? Career Career In No
Time Using These
Brilliant Resources

4. About The 5. Next Steps. . .

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What do you like to do?
Have you ever thought, "I know what I like to do, I just don't know what
that's called."? This ebook is for you. . .

If you know your key interests and skills, but you just don't know what career it
translates into, this ebook is for you.

Using these free resources you can discover a career path to consider to decide
whether it's really the right career path for you.

How It Works
This exercise with give you the process and the tools you'll need to finally take your
jumble of interests and talents and figure out what career might utilize those skills.

What if you could finally get moving forward on a career path that was right?

What if this one simple exercise could save you the pain of feeling like your
talents and skills are wasted?

What if you had the tools to understand what your next steps should be on
your career path?

Today, you're going to get a powerful process and free tools you can use that will
give you the insight and clarity you need to stop wondering what your skills and
interests add up to, and finally know what your career title could be.

Jessica Sweet
www. wishingwellcoach.com
 Find Your Career
You are about to uncover a powerful process for finding a
career direction based on what you already know you like.

Have you ever thought, "I know what I like to do, I just
don't know what that's called."?

This ebook is for you. . .

If you know your key interests and skills, but you just
don't know what career it translates into, this ebook is for
you.

Using these free resources you can discover a career path

to consider and decide whether it's really the right career
path for you.
Choose A Career In No Time
Using These Brilliant
Resources

It can be overwhelming trying to choose a career. Even assuming that you have
some idea of what you might want to do, there are just so many career paths out
there. Who can keep track of them all or understand them?
Not me - who works in the career space full time, and certainly not you, who has
better things to do.

Luckily, there are better ways to figure out what you want to do by homing in on
your exact right job using some pretty brilliant and mind blowing resources that are
available to you right now, for free.

I'm going to walk you through how to find a career that is just right for you using
these resources - even if you don't have a great idea of what you want to do yet.

Let's get started using a simple career exercise.

A Simple Career Exercise To Choose A Career

Path
If you're totally lost right now and you're not sure if you want to become an
architect or go to ministry school, this exercise probably won't help you. It's not the
place to start if you don't have a general idea. It is for people who have a bit more
focus, but need a bit more still.

For example, lets say you have an MBA and you know you want to use it, but you
don't really know how, or you're wondering if getting an MBA is going to really help
you do what you want to do.

You can do this exercise.

First, choose 10 jobs you feel excited about that meet your
minimum requirements,
in this case an MBA.

The goal is to find those 10 or so jobs that feel really exciting and that all require an
MBA.

There are many places you can look, and you're probably familiar with a lot of them.
They include:

www.linkedin/jobs
One of the top career sites in the world, and a great place to research jobs and
companies.

Indeed.com
Indeed may be the leading job board today, and has thousands of new jobs added
to it every week. You can set up an advanced search with many different criteria
including salary, location and keywords.

Specialized Job Boards:

You may also search for other job boards if your keyword is something specialized
instead of "MBA." If you're looking to get a job as a sommelier, for example, there
are likely places where those jobs are posted.

Choosing A Career Path: What Excites You?

Now that you've found some listings, it's time to find jobs that really excite you. Go
through and see which ones really excite you. Take your time.

Found some? Good.

Now, what is it about them that gets you fired up?

Is it the creativity?

The industry?

The actual function?

Decide what it is that you like about the position because it is those elements that
you are going to be looking for in your actual job. Make a list.

I can't tell you the number of times that I have had clients express their disbelief at
how much of this list they actually got when they finally landed their job, but it's
because when you're clear what you're looking for, you can actually get it.

There's no way to get it when you don't know what you want.

Choosing A Career Path: Get More Specific

Here's when things really start to get fun!

They also start to get a little harder. You're going to have to get a little creative and
think a little harder about what your dream job actually is.

Armed with your list of dream job features from above, start to take some guesses
about job titles, or, if you have some friends or people in your network with
knowledge of the industry you're interested in, you could ask them about what
they think:

"Hey Joan, I'm thinking about getting my MBA, and I was hoping you could help
point me in the right direction and help me see if I'm on the right track. I really like
solving problems and I like the concept of "failing fast." I like working with people
and I love seeing my work get completed. Do you think there's anything I could do
in the business world that would suit me?"

They might come back to you with a few ideas.

Once you have some titles to plug in, you can go to one of my favorite research
tools:

Payscale.com/research
Payscale has immense power. I'll show you.

Not only can you research what you should be paid in your current job or a future
position, but you can research job titles and career paths for tons of different jobs
and careers out there.

For example, lets say that you decided you wanted to research "senior business
analyst" based on your friend's recommendations.

Here's what it would tell you.

First, you can see what you can expect to make in this field.
Next, you get a chart that shows the various career paths for someone entering the
field - where they came from (how they got there) and where they go to, which is
very valuable information if you're thinking about getting into the field and what it
might mean for your career.
Each of these paths is clickable, meaning if you want to know more about any of
these fields, you're just a click away from a ton of information on it!

You can also find the top skills you'll need:

How the pay is expected to improve (or not) by experience:
Satisfaction level of people in this career:
And more!

As you can see, Payscale gives you tons of information on any career path you
might think of, including a detailed description of what that career path is like and
what the day-to-day duties are like, so you can get some sense of whether the
career path is for you.

One More Career Resource

Once you have landed on a path that seems like a good fit, the last resource is
Onetonline.

Onet is a bit unwieldy. It contains almost 1000 careers and their descriptions and
attempts to put them in a taxonomy, so it shows their relationship to one another,
not unlike Payscale.

I like it though because it attempts to give a job outlook which is very useful info.

It also lists jobs by industry and has interest and ability tests, so you can be
matched to creative jobs, or jobs for people with particular interests.

The most difficult thing about this site is the navigation, but the information on it is
good!

Looking for A Career For You

It's time for you to do this exercise.

Step One:

Figure out the skills you want to use or things that you get excited about through
gathering 10 listings you love and seeing what it is about them that really makes
you excited. Note: Don't worry about whether these are jobs you could actually
take, if they're local, if they're filled, etc. We're just trying to understand what thrills
you!
Step Two:

Take educated guesses about your potential job titles. This will be an iterative
process. Ask friends that you know or people in the field to see if you're on the
right track and the role is really what you think it is. The more you learn about a
role, the more you'll understand whether or not it's right for you.

Step Three:

Armed with likely job titles, run them through the rigors of the job search tools
above to see what you can learn about them and if they fit the bill in terms of what
you need for your lifestyle. Learn as much as you can. In the end, you should come
out with a title that both excites you and fits in terms of your lifestyle.

If not, try again.

About The Author
Jessica Sweet, Career Coach, Therapist

I'm Jessica Sweet, a career coach and licensed therapist. I coach people in midlife
who are looking for work that's more meaningful. When it's time to move on to
something that you're good at and that you care about, but you're not quite sure
what that is, I can help.

Who Am I?
I've been coaching people for over 8 years, and before that I worked as a therapist.
I have an uncanny ability to discover exactly where people are stuck emotionally
and help them get the breakthroughs they need to move forward personally and
professionally.

I also write for Forbes and The Huffington Post, and have been featured in places
like CNBC, Business Insider, Hayhouse and more.
On Another Note. . .
I live near Boston, MA, though it's no secret that I dream of tropical beaches! When
I'm not working, you can find me being (very) silly with my two little girls. My
husband usually just laughs at us.
 Next Steps. . .
I'm so glad you've read this ebook, and I hope you'll use
the exercise here.

I will be connecting with you soon in your inbox with

more career resources that you can use to reach your
career goals. Just look for emails from me:

Jessica Sweet

Wishingwell Coaching

In the meantime, please visit my website for more

resources:

VISIT WISHINGWELLCOACH.COM

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