'Reflect on It' Guide
Welcome to our "Reflect on It" guide, where we'll help you delve deeper into the insights you've gained from the "Envision It" guide. Reflecting on your career is an essential step in building your career story, and although reflection was part of the Envision It guide, it’s the focus for this one. Thoughtful reflection allows you to uncover and articulate the experiences, achievements, and challenges that have shaped your professional journey. By examining your career in detail, you can surface important anecdotes that illustrate your skills, resilience, and growth, providing a solid foundation for your narrative.
Reflecting on your career is an essential step in building your career story. Thoughtful reflection allows you to uncover and articulate the experiences, achievements, and challenges that have shaped your professional journey. By examining your career in detail, you can surface important anecdotes that illustrate your skills, resilience, and growth, providing a solid foundation for your narrative.
Here’s what you can expect to achieve by the end of this reflective journey:
Skill Inventory. An inventory of key skills developed throughout your career, and their application in different contexts.
Articulated Achievements. A compilation of your accomplishments for each role, highlighting both quantitative and qualitative achievements, conveyed in a way that emphasizes your strengths and capabilities.
Meaningful Anecdotes. Illustrative and authentic anecdotes that reflect your experiences and achievements. As part of “Craft It” you’ll prepare these anecdotes for use in interviews, networking events, and professional conversations.
Contextual Relevance of Your Experiences. The ability to articulate your experiences, achievements and skills in the context of your career vision, and objectives.
Awareness and Strategies for Obstacles, Challenges & Barriers. A heightened awareness of potential difficulties you may face, along with strategies to address and overcome them to achieve your career goals.
By the end of the "Reflect on It" course, you will be equipped with the tools and insights needed to craft a compelling career story that showcases your strengths, aligns with your goals, and propels you toward your desired future.
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1 - Analyzing Your Past Experiences, Accomplishments, and Skills
Create a timeline of your professional experiences. The purpose of this exercise is to surface as much relevant information as possible. Keep your Career Statement, Career Vision, and Roles of Interest in mind as you think about what to surface.
Create a timeline of your professional experiences. The purpose of this exercise is to surface as much relevant information as possible. Keep your Career Statement, Career Vision, and Roles of Interest in mind as you think about what to surface.
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2 - Mapping the Past to the Future
Building on the groundwork laid in Exercise 1 of Chapter 2 in the Envision It guide, where you explored potential roles aligned with your career aspirations, this exercise focuses on bridging past experiences with future career goals.
Building on the groundwork laid in Exercise 1 of Chapter 2 in the Envision It guide, where you explored potential roles aligned with your career aspirations, this exercise focuses on bridging past experiences with future career goals.
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1 - Addressing Potential Challenges, Obstacles, and Barriers
By completing this exercise, you will identify potential difficulties you may face (challenges, obstacles and barriers) while working to achieve your career vision. This proactive approach will help you navigate challenges more effectively and stay focused on your career goals.
By completing this exercise, you will identify potential difficulties you may face (challenges, obstacles and barriers) while working to achieve your career vision. This proactive approach will help you navigate challenges more effectively and stay focused on your career goals.
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Ready to Craft!
As you conclude your journey through 'Reflect on It', the rich insights gathered from these exercises serve as foundational pillars for what lies ahead in the 'Craft it' guide.
As you conclude your journey through 'Reflect on It', the rich insights gathered from these exercises serve as foundational pillars for what lies ahead in the 'Craft it' guide.
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