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WHAT IS YOUR CAREER COLOR? GO TO COLLEGE WITH THAT!

What a colorful wheel right?

I found this while surfing the net on career assessment websites and creatively illustrated career exposure and assessment in these 4 steps. I use and truly believe as well that if you can honestly and openly follow through with each of these areas of career-life, then your choice will be the best one you can make.

  • Interests – What You Like/Dislike
  • Personality – What Makes You Unique
  • Values – What’s Important To You
  • Knowledge, Skills And Abilities – What You’re Good At

Values – What’s Important To You                              Establish those values in your life first. What is it that you live every day of your life by?  what do you believe in? What, no matter how things go, you will always stand by your values. What are they? Once you know what you fight for, believe in and am passionate about with regard to life values, then you can develop a much better understanding of yourself, thus building much more confidence.

THIS will help you build a better sense of yourself, and thus will help you to achieve the next three steps:

Interests – What You Like/Dislike                      What do you like in life in general that you can get paid for. Think about everything and do not tie them to careers or jobs that are on your mind. Completely void yourself of that and think about everything you enjoy.

Knowledge, skills and abilities what are you good at?                    Every one of us has something we are good at. It is our job to find them. The skills and talents you have continue to nourish and grow. It’s not like your good at everything. But what kinds of things do you do good? Do you like certain courses, and why? Do you talk a lot of take things apart? Do people come to you for something, or are you complimented on certain things or abilities more often?  This can aid you in figuring out some of the skills and talents that you attain. I say some because we live our lives every day learning something new, and discovering (through hardship or good times) that we have other skills and talents that we can benefit from.

Personality- what makes you unique?                               Many people don’t actually think about this as part of their career choice. If you’re fun-loving and talkative, go for it, and do that in your career! If your quiet, introverted, task-oriented, go for it and do that for your career! Use your personality to match your career! If you’re the type of person that likes doing one thing at a time, well there are jobs for that! Check out http://wp.me/pAKTs-2I to really investigate this. Don’t worry it’s not hard work./ There are four categories of personalities and as you review the personality traits that make up each color, you can easily tell the type of personality you have. And don’t worry, if you choose two or three colors, you’re not a schizophrenic…it just makes you that much more marketable for different careers and jobs.

Your Success is My Success,

Keith Lipke

www.keithlipke.com

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Keith Lipke is a careers and college recruiter, coach, mentor and blogger at The Career Closet. His passion is to educate, inspire, and give hope to young people who need it upon their search for the right career and college.

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