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• 1. Self Assessment
  • 1.1 Pride Experiences
    • 1.1.1 My Pride List
    • 1.1.2 Writing Your Stories
  • 1.2 Personality
    • 1.2.1 Personality Checklist
  • 1.3 Values
  • 1.4 Skills
    • 1.4.1 Your Skills
  • 1.5 Interests
    • 1.5.1 Your Career Interests
    • 1.5.2 Understanding Career Clusters
  • 1.6 Knowledge
    • 1.6.1 Identifying Your Style
  • 1.7 Self-employment
  • 1.8 Integrating Your Assessment
• 2. Research
• 3. Decision-Making
• 4. Networks & Contacts
• 5. Work
• 6. Life/Work Planning

Step 1.1: Pride Experiences

This exercise will enable you to lay the foundation for assessing your interests, values and skills The process may take from 20-60 minutes

Developing Your Pride List

List experiences from your past that are positive for you. These are things that you are proud of, that make you feel energized as you recall them. Include your earliest memories. They can be anything from building a house to drawing a picture or running a race. It only matters how you feel about it. The standard to use in choosing items for this list is your own pride in feeling "I did that myself!"

Examples of pride experiences are:

• Coached my baseball team to a winning season
• Created an innovative new procedure and trained staff how to use it
• Designed a go-kart with 2 friends and won first prize in a race
• Doubled the sales volume in my product area in a two-year period
• Earned enough money to travel through Europe by holding three part-time jobs
• Helped solve an important personal problem for an employee or neighbour
• Initiated a program, product or procedure at my job
• Learned to swim and dive at age seven
• Organized and led weekend Girl Guide camping outings
• Raised $1,000 organizing a raffle for my children's school
• Remodelled and redecorated part of my house
• Set up and ran a summer business that earned enough profit to pay for my school tuition
• Successfully managed a difficult project to completion
• Taught myself how to create a web site by studying a how-to book
• Wrote an innovative database program to help my class manage a research project

Put items down in the order that they occur to you, without prioritising them. It is ideal if you can come up with 20-25 items. Some people prefer to write these down on a blank sheet of paper. Others prefer to use a chart to record the pride list.

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View it as a normal Web page and print it.

Remember that it is important to write about things you did in a variety of life roles (such as parenting, cooking, volunteering, learning as a student, etc.).

One aspect of career development is the art of prioritising. Choose from your pride list the top seven activities according to your pride in them, joy in doing them, and level of energy in recalling them. Be sure to pick things from a variety of life roles. Identify these in order of preference.

You are now ready to write your stories by clicking here.