Career Self-Coaching: Your next Career Move

Create your own career compass to orient yourself and determine the direction you want, guiding you through options toward happiness and fulfillment.

Choose three favorite projects from work, school, or volunteering to identify what motivates you and fuel your compass for your next career move.

Reflect on past fulfilling experiences to identify common patterns, define your top eight career fulfillment criteria, and construct a personal career compass to guide your next move.

Take out your compass and highlighter, assess each career criterion against your current job on a 1–10 scale, and visualize a balanced wheel to reveal the ride’s smoothness.

Expand your career options beyond your current role by exploring location changes, new industries, different functions, and roles like project manager, solution architect, or designer.

Identify your top three career options that align with what matters most, using your career compass and a workbook template to compare criteria and dimensions.

Discover three ways to research career options: use internal tools and people directories; check Glassdoor for insights; and use LinkedIn for broader perspectives, then validate assumptions through conversations.

Explore curiosity conversations to build connections by asking targeted questions about career paths, daily work, goals, and challenges. Schedule 20–30 minute calls to uncover opportunities.

Reflect on curiosity conversations to gain clarity about your career options. Then confirm the three options you picked, compare alternatives, and identify which option rises to the top.

Print the worksheet, place the final three options, and use a compass-based pie to evaluate satisfaction (including compensation) on a 1-10 scale, then compare visually.

Evaluate options and reflect on realizations, then decide to pick one option to move forward, and be prepared for courageous conversations or revisiting steps if needed.

Develop an action plan with a timeline by identifying steps, assigning numbers, and plotting a realistic schedule to execute and move toward your best career option with clarity and confidence.

Celebrate your progress as you gain clarity and confidence to take the next step in your career by aligning with your strengths, passions, compass, and curated options.

Discover Tom’s starting point through the five step process; identify strengths, weaknesses, assets, and passions, build the compass, explore and evaluate options, and craft a clear action plan for confidence.

Tom builds a career compass from three projects—valuing open communication, leadership, teamwork, location, and strategic significance—and uses an eight-factor wheel to assess balance and plan change.

Explore options across career dimensions, identify paths such as solution architect, project manager, and coach, and evaluate first steps through networking and curiosity conversations.

Tom maps his career compass to a sheet, creates three options, compares them on freedom, appreciation, travel, and long-term relevance, and notes option three differs.

Choose the project management path with technologies and map a four-week action plan. Network, research, and update your development plan to gain clarity and confidence for your next career move.