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I'm Personal Career Coach
Wendy Billie,
and I divide my time between a Fortune 50 company and
Feroce Coaching. I'm here to tell you from my own
experience and that of my clients that a “dream” career
is not a myth.
What if you chose the
career you personally had always dreamed of doing before someone else
told you what you should pursue? I had a
breakthrough recently with a career coaching client I’ll
call Tim while reviewing his work-behavioral assessment.
Tim discovered that his first career dream matched his
current behavioral preferences. The following is a
follow-up email Wendy sent Tim that highlights some
“a-ha’s” from the coaching session and Tim’s “homework”
to keep the coaching real.
Dear Tim,
Here are a few of the "aha's"
that I want you to spend some time thinking about. Write
down other times (related to work, family, school, or
life in general) in which you have experienced the
things that I have bolded so we can talk about it.
• Being on your own may be
an issue with your current work situation. Being
involved is important.
• You live a structured work situation. Yet you
have always seen yourself as a free spirit.
• You work alone.
But, you value the concept of teams and being in an
environment where others are present. You told me
the last work situation in which you felt satisfied was
when you held demonstrations and interacted with the
staff. This was out of your home office and in the
presence of others...hint hint. Plus, I bet you
were teaching others. And, in the next breath you
told me that you always saw yourself as being a football
coach. Hmm.
• You said that you make a lot of money and live in a
great neighborhood. But, you also said many times
that money was not important to you. Your parents
said that sales was a good fit for you. Why?
Didn't you say that maybe you were trying to show your
parents that you could live a life not in debt? Is
it possible to live a life debt-free without having
significant abundance of money? Tell me a couple
times that you have had a great time in your life
without an abundance of money.
Based on the work
behavioral assessment, some great career fits for your
work personality type according to research:
(coach/trainer, police officer, sports equipment sales,
child support/missing persons investigator, surgical
technician). Very cool! [Tim currently is in
medical device sales, but always wanted to be a coach --
Ed.].
These personality (work behavioral) assessments are only
sound if a person has insight into who they are so they
are not absolute. But it is profound that what you
always saw yourself doing came out in the assessment.
It is amazing how life's demands and other people’s view
of what we should do (to make money) can cloud our
personal intuition.
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