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Ideal Career is About Your True Self
By Peter Nguyen - Mar 7, 2008
In this section, we'll be offering tools and resources to design and build your "ideal career" so it's worth to carefully define what it means exactly.
An ideal career is based on your passion, your talent, your client and your values
as shown on the diagram below.
As you can see, your ideal career has more to do with you than it has to do with the world or the employer organization. In other words, 75% of the ideal career is about who you truly are: your passion, your talent and your values.
25% has to do with the service or solution that you provide to a client.
The traditional career was one where a professional worked hard (and played office politics skillfully) to climb up a hierarchical ladder at a big company. There is nothing wrong with that idea of a career, if that is the career you wish to build.
However, this section is more about your ideal career and less about being useful to an employer or getting paid a big salary or gaining professional prestige and executive status.
Although finding one's ideal career is the ultimate achievement because it's all about self-actualization, it is a long journey. It is NOT about finding a job or getting a headhunter to find a good job for you.
It is not about resumes or job interviews. It is not about networking. It is not about skills or education or professional certifications.
All those elements are required for effective career management, but the critical ingredient will always be -- you.
In other words, the search for an ideal career is actually the search for who you truly are, and the joy you were meant to experience in this life.
Find your true self is often understood to be a long and arduous process involving deep thoughts or exotic philosophies or even mind-altering substances.
It's actually much simpler. Finding your true self is about choosing, in every moment, to do what feels good to you.
It's about realizing that you always have the freedom to create the life experience that you want, and to confidently make the choices that will contribute to that desirable life experience.
In this section, we will share with you our research done over the last 7 years so you can discover, design and build your ideal career.
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