Welcome to Career Finder Your Step-by-Step Guide to Choosing the Right Career

The career finder process described on this page offers a fun little series of exercises meant to help you find the right career based on your personality, your strengths and skills, your likes and dislikes, and the things that are important to you.

I'm always surprised and saddened at discovering how few people actually choose a career based on their passions. Many of us still buy into the belief that you have to get a job and be content, as long as it pays the bills.

I set up the career finder specifically to get you out of that dated mentality, and help you choose a career that suits you. You can get a job and pay the bills, and also love what you do.

Your dream job exists somewhere out there. The only reason you haven’t discovered it yet is that you didn’t know how to look for it.

I want you to look at yourself in a whole new way. We often separate our personal self from our professional self – but no more. The whole point here is to discover career choices that complement exactly who you are.

This is your time to be completely honest about who you are, what excites you, what motivates and drives you, what you're passionate about, and what you're good at.

Ready to get to work?Grab a notepad and pen and let’s get started on this fun little journey of self discovery...

• Exercise #1. What you liked and disliked about your past jobs
• Exercise #2. What your hobbies and extracurricular activities say about you
  
• Exercise #3. Your priorities with respect to money, family, and lifestyle
• Exercise #4. What career aptitude tests might uncover
  
• Exercise #5. What are your strengths and skills
  
• Exercise #6. What you envision in your mind's eye, where you see yourself

You should now have an image of yourself in your ideal role. With this, you’ll be able to identify industries or jobs where that role may exist.

You can start by including every imaginable career avenue and gradually eliminating the ones you know are unsuitable.

Or you can build your list of possible career options based on your self-discovery exercises.

Either way, you are sure to uncover more career choices than you ever would have imagined.