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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Starting Out In Your Career - Doing It Right the First Time (part 2)

Continued from yesterday... The average professional starting out today will change jobs at least 12 times & do a major re-tooling of their career 4 times. Why is this? Answer: Schools are not equipped with the proper staff or tools to help guide the student to a career that will be not only the most professionally rewarding, but also personally fulfilling for a lifetime. The high school process is focused on “aptitude”, measuring a student’s skills and abilities in particular subjects. However, long-term success in a career is not nearly as highly correlated to skills and abilities as it is to matching fields of study to personality, gifting, interests, and driving motivators. The high school guidance system does little to address these greater predictors of success and fulfillment. The situation is even worse for the young person who elects not to go to college. As mentioned earlier, those that do not go to college leave home on average at age 31 and cost their parents an average of $30,000. It is further interesting to note that as parents, we tend to begin channeling our young people into focusing on one sport as early as age 8 and often have them exclusively dedicated to that single sport by the time they reach age 12. Does it really make sense that we expend so much time and effort on guiding them in their chosen field of sports, a 4-year decision (college athletics), and so little time and effort guiding them into their chosen career, a 40-year decision! To address this issue, I have developed a 5-step process to assist young people and their parents with this process: • Step 1 = Discovering their Core DESIGN (where D = Driving motivators, E = Experiences & life lessons, S = Specialized skills & education, I = Interests & passions, G = Gifting & talents, N = Natural personality) • Step 2 = Developing a Life Plan (Life Mission, Values, & Vision) • Step 3 = Vocational Fit Analysis (includes approximately 1000 possible occupations) • Step 4 = Major & College Analysis (includes assessment of majors at 3800 various colleges and universities) • Step 5 = Final Selection (an objective assessment of the short list using 40 points of decision-making criteria) In order to help prevent your kids from living in your house until age 30 & beyond, you need to help them find the guidance that will launch them forward into the world. These young people need assistance identifying their strengths and gifting in order to select a career path that will lead not only to financial success, but also long-term personal fulfillment. Are you struggling to deterrmine what the best career path in life is for you? Truth@Life can help. Call 248-396-6255 or email me at curtis.songer@gmail.com for a FREE consultation. For more info on help I can provide check out http://truthatlife.com/

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