Any Career Change or Shift Comes With a Risk.

Here is the Story

I know this is a story where the consequences are not really huge, but I tell it to illustrate my career point.

We live in a rural town with a small grocery store. It is great for the basics, but due to either lack of product availability or poor pricing, we often go to the next community 15 minutes away with a larger franchised store to meet our need. The route we take to get there has two options; the main way and the back way. I prefer the back way but it has a railway crossing on a very busy line. The main way has an overpass over the tracks.

You can probably figure out where I’m going with this. Every time I take my preferred route, I run the risk of being delayed by a passing train, usually very long. When time is a factor, I always take the main road. When it’s not, I take the back way and play a game I refer to as the ‘Risk Zone’. Will I be stopped at the crossing (Featured Image above is an actual pic of the crossing), or not? Honestly, I’ve never been delayed over the last year but I have looked down the track and seen the train’s bright headlights within a mile of the crossing. That day,  I Won the Challenge!!!

A Lesson on Risk and Career

Now, I realize that your career is more than a game or internal competition. The risk and cost of altering your career in any way can be very high…and so can the rewards. But when you are having career issues, you basically have two options. You could  make a major/minor career change, OR stay working where you are. But the fact is, whether leaving/changing OR staying, both come with risks. Either way, you could say it’s a game to be won or lost.

• It may seem that staying on the main road, that is, staying where your are, is the safe way.
• It may also seem that making a change in some way is like taking the back road and therefore risky.

But that just isn’t the case. As mentioned, they are both risky. The common denominator is the fact you have an unresolved work related issue. And so long as there is an issue, there is uncertainty. And so long is their is uncertainty, there is risk.

If you find yourself at a career crossroad, staying or changing carry the same degree of risk.

They would both be compared to taking the back way because they both come with uncertainty. Staying at a job or career that has issues carries the same degree of risk as leaving for something different. What’s the phrase, “A devil if you do, a devil if you don’t ‘!

So what can you do?

A New Career Mindset is Needed Here

Let’s bring in an important concept know as Risk Management. Risk has to be processed through two filters.

• The Personal Filter, and
• The Practical Filter

Each is a Mindset and one of these will be more natural to you than the other.

Career Mindset #1

The Personal Filter is what I refer to as Subjective. The situation has to be assessed by internal factors governed by how you are “hard wired” based on your personality. Typically there are four main filters:

• Putting my trust in a relationship with the person guiding me through the process. It is Person focused.
• Processing a thorough analysis & organization of my intuitively perceived reality. It is Information focused.
• Maintaining a willingness to throw caution to the wind and proceed regardless of the outcome. It is Action focused.
• Digging in my heels with an absolute unwillingness to change what now is, because I’m safe and secure. It is Structure focused.

Yes, there is a degree of latitude within each of these four, and, though you will probably default to one, it will work hand in hand with your second preference. They may even oscillate.

Career Mindset #2

The Practical Filter is what I refer to as Objective. It doesn’t go inside to interpret. It looks at the external world around them. It sees the circumstance for what it is. Control of the situation goes down two paths:

1. I will focus on more of what is happening and less of what I can do about it. I will accept where the cards land when they fall rather than trying to interpret it. I will figure out what the next steps are.
2. I will seek out advice and guidance to help me understand what is happening. This in turn will help me make sense of the options so I can have choices and consider the risks

So How Will You Manage Your Career Risk?

Whether choosing the personal or practical mindset in your career matters, the preferred path will be applied using a very serious, conscious consideration. But why not?

Next to marriage, family and self maintenance, in terms of time and impact, your career, is the biggest single decision you will ever make. It is how you pay for life. It is often how you maintain your sense of self worth. 

That makes it easy to deliberately choose the main road because the train delay cannot be risked. But always remember, if you have a career issue, nothing is safe, there is no main road, the situation comes with risk. The apple cart carrying many key areas of life is upset. And most of you that have experienced career challenges know that what I just said is true.

For some, it will be approached like a game to be won or lost. Due to an energy driven motivation to win, you too will enter the “Risk Zone”, like when I chose the road that crossed the tracks risking a delay if a train came. The energy that surges when risk is involved can be addictive. The fact is, that whether you like it or not, when you have a career issue, you are forced into this path. If this has become your path and you do not like the choice, it will not motivate you, the game will not be fun and it will drain you.

But that is a topic for another day!.

The bigger question right now is, “Which Risk Management path will you choose?” You really can’t escape it.

 

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Choosing A Career? Getting The Right Help

Simple career related illustrations show up in all kinds of places. It happened to me once again just the other day.

We live in a small rural town of 1500 people about 45 minutes outside of Canada’s capital, Ottawa. Several years ago, the powers-that-be really tried to make this slumbering community into something more. They created and zoned a street called Industrial Drive with the intention of pulling in some manufacturing. Believe it or not, it is actually the street we live on now. No industries showed up. But, by default, a few small businesses moved in. The rest became residential. The street name didn’t draw in what was wanted. It just got more of what the town already had…residences. To add to the oddness of our street’s name, our backyard is a farmer’s field. That happens on the edge of rural towns. Annually that field’s crops rotate between corn and beans… apparently a soil health issue. Corn and beans; it fits in with today’s theme.

When you drive the entire area, other that pastures, there is nothing but fields of either corn or beans. When on the road, I am fully aware that these cash crops are there, but I never really pay any attention to them. There is no need too, except in one specific circumstance.

Something Grabbed my Attention

Every year in each field, some of the seeds from the former and different crop are left in the ground. Obviously, they do what seeds do…grow. Well, I really don’t know if that’s the case with beans growing in a cornfield. A crop of corn would definitely smother the much smaller beans plants. But I do know that when I often drive by bean fields, quite obviously a seed of corn has matured. The cover image of this post shows you the result. A large high single corn plant growing in the midst thousands of bean plants. You can’t help but notice. The towering stalk of corn, though out of place is literally…outstanding. It stands out from everything else. As a result, it appears quiet, all by itself and most of all, it gets noticed! After all, am I not talking to you about it.

The Downside of Being Outstanding

However, even the fact that the majestic stock of corn draws positive attention, it comes with a downside, a negative slant. Corn should not be growing in the middle of a bean field. Corn really doesn’t serve any practical purpose there. It is totally out of place. But that is where the parallel ends when it comes to the World of Work. As it relates to a person’s career, we have to pull back the curtain and understand what these opposing concepts mean, what it tells us about ourselves and what we can do about it.

I’ve placed the negative and positive sides of these two concepts on the simple matrix below. Look it over then we will look a little deeper at each quadrant.

Let’s look at each of the four quadrants.

The Place To BE

Yes, being Outstanding in your career but Not Out Of Place is Career Heaven and only about 1 in 10 are there. You can make a totally logical argument that not everyone can be there. My counter argument would be simple. I am not talking about everybody.

Right HERE, Right NOW, I am talking about YOU

If I don’t challenge you, you will not pursue.

If you do not pursue, you will not attain,

If you do not attain, then you…have to tell me…what your options are.

Where will you be in 1 year…5 years…10 years…or more? Well, I can narrow down your answer now. Unless you do something, that is “Take Action” soon, you will be in one of the other three boxes.

Probably nobody reading this blog is in this first quadrant. They have no need to be learning from an article like this. They have already attained it. However, this also means that you are probably in one of the other three. That is why your are reading it!

Answer This Question

If you are totally comfortable where you work, but can honestly say that your work scenario is less than outstanding, then you have a question to ask; a decision to make. All you need is the motivation and stamina to see the journey towards excellence, through; because being outstanding demands excellence.

The question as stated in the matrix is, “What do I need to do to excel in my comfort zone?” Let me suggest a few things. But, you can add personal thoughts and conclusions regarding your own awareness-es that you may need more of?

• Self esteem
• Confidence
• Motivation
• Drive
• Experience
• Education

It may be one, it may be more than one. But you need to take the time to

Figure it out

Identify your issue

Craft a plan

Put it on a timeline and go after it.

You will in time excel and when you do, Outstanding is the natural outflow.

The Ball Is In Your Court

Ask Why & What

It has to be a real emotional tug of war to know that you are ‘outstanding’ in what you do, but for some reason are uncomfortable in your work environment. I can see this being an issue in the following scenarios…

• Your leadership has proved to be outstanding with the people you worked with, but working in your field is falling short
• You are outstanding in your field of work, but the people and team you work with falls short
• You were outstanding in fixing the problem you were hired to fix. But now that it is fixed, maintaining it has lost its appeal
• You were outstanding in both your field and team leadership but, in terms of upward movement or getting more responsibility, your company has nothing to offer

These are basic, big picture examples. I am sure that your current line of work can present its own case studies. But it up to YOU to get to the bottom of your level of discomfort. The only way you can do that is

identify ‘The Why; then once identified

Follow it up with ‘The What’.

Once those to things are done you can create an action plan.

If you can’t figure it out, get help from a Career Consultant

This is Serious

If you are in this quadrant, you have so many questions you need to answers and most of them are specifically focused on YOU! You have walk up to a mirror, look yourself in the eye and ask…

• Why?
• What on earth am I doing?
• What is keeping me from taking the necessary actions to move me to an area of comfort in my World of Work?
• Do I really WANT to work in a venue where I can excel and do my very best to be outstanding?
• Am I seriously willing to pay the price of what I must do to get me there?

I am sure that there are more questions that could be asked but these are a great place to start. Respond to the blue statement below with a TRUE or FALSE and it will tell you if you have a next step or not.

I am sick and tired of being stuck in my World of Work and I want to do something about it

If you said ‘True‘ then you are ready to take life changing action.

So What’s the Career Connection

The percentage of  people who have career dissatisfaction is extremely high (See the numbers have way down my Home Page). One of the many reasons why people aren’t happy at work is being caught in the world of ‘mundane’. When you are there, you are not really noticed. When driving by the ten’s of thousands of acres of corn and bean fields in our area, I don’t specifically focus on them. But show me a field of low growing beans spattered throughout with these high out of place stalks of corn, I pull over, take a picture of it and write an article about what it says to me…and subsequently to you. Why?  Because it represents something that screams out from a world where, day in and day out, everything looks the same, nothing looks different, and nobody is paying attention.

Here’s the deal

Living in the mundane has so many implications in terms of Your World of Work. Here are some of them:

• You feel insignificant in terms of your input 
• You long to just be recognized for something you accomplished
• Your only joy is your paycheck
• You have settled into a complacent career state
• There is little or no motivation to press on

My word of encouragement to you comes from a friend of mine from Argentina. In his strong Spanish accent he would shout out, “Never Gi-bup”! So like John (but in my English accent) I repeat, “Never Give up”! “Press on”, but not by doing the same old, same old. You have to get out of that complacent mindset, pick yourself up by the bootstraps and learn…

• What makes you tick
• Where you excel
• What abilities and gifts you have that you absolutely love to use

These are the things that you can do that few others around you can and that companies can use; those things that make you want to jump out of bed on workday mornings and say, “I love my job!’

Will YOU Take Career Action

These, along with a more positive outlook on life will cause you to become something that you never believed you could be. You, like that single outstanding stock of corn in a bean field, will cause others to take notice and relieve you of your sense of insignificance and career dissatisfaction.

Finally, I encourage you to make your decision to move forward and to Never Gi-bup!

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A Mini Holiday, a Tire Issue and a Career Lesson

Here is a recent personal story that will help you out in your career.

I’ve been driving for about 40 years. In all that time, I don’t really recall having a problem with tires… Until recently!

To be accurate, I don’t have a problem with tires…I only have a problem with one. But when you are in the mindset of 40 years with no tire issues it is very easy to pay little attention to tires until somebody points a problem out. That happened to me lately.

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I decided to travel with our daughter, son-in-law and two kids in Stowe Vermont. Being less than 3 hours away, we thought we would join them and recreate a 20-year-old childhood memory that both families could enjoy,. Not only had we had done this with our daughter and son years earlier, but now with her husband and our two grandsons. We love the mountains. We love the water. And we had two wonderful days together.

 A Moment of Awareness by a Stranger

Heather and I also love crossing bodies of water on ferries. So on the way home, we decided to take the Lake Champlain ferry between Vermont and New York. Towards the end of that crossing, a gentleman approached me. With a concerned look he asked, “Do you realize how low air is in your driver side rear tire?” I can’t say that I hadn’t noticed but figured that I was okay to get home. It didn’t seem all that bad. The tire had been put on within the 6 prior months. But when this guy began talking about blowing my tire at high speed, I kind of freaked out a little.

My Only Concern Became ‘Fix It’

As soon as we got off the boat I inquired about the nearest gas station with an air pump. Little did I realize that I still had a 30-minute white knuckle drive based on the fear that this man placed in my mind. Much to my surprise the normal 36 lbs. of tire pressure had gone down to only 12 lbs. No wonder he was so concerned. Yep, and nobody was more surprised than me.

The fact of the matter is that I had a very slow leak, so slow that it’s severity honestly caught me off guard. I had to make another five or six-day road trip but didn’t have time to get it repaired so, with the leak being so slow, I topped it up before I left and before returning home 5 days later I found out it was down 10 or 12 pounds. I got home and today I booked an appointment today at my local garage to have it looked after.

Fact is, it was so unnoticeably slow, it became a problem and I didn’t even know it.

Now Here’s My Question

Does your career have a slow leak? Days, weeks, months and even years can pass before you even recognize that there is a problem. It has been so slow, you didn’t even recognize it. But at some point, weather self-discovered or someone brought something to your attention, you realized that the characteristics of your career were not what they should be. Once aware, you may test it, check it out, get a feel for what’s going on, but at the end of the day you have this knowledge that’s something isn’t right in your World of Work.

Slow leaks in your career can be caused by any numbers of things. It could be…
• An unused ability
• An ineffective leader or team player
• Boredom with repetitive work
• New interests that are overshadowing former interests
• Because you had to pick up the slack and assume the work of a former employee no longer with the company

These are only a few examples of the many things that can take the air out of your career tire. Only you can identify what yours might be. Sometimes it’s because you realize something’s wrong and you dig deep. Sometimes it’s somebody who you may or may not know you very well, like the gentleman in the boat, that saw the signs and indicators and inform you how they see your situation.

Are You Concerned Enough To Take Action

The question is, once you know something’s wrong and, you may have even identified it what are you going to do about it? Most of the time, one can’t figure it out on their own. If you do and make a career shift, without a thorough, comprehensive process, the odds are increased of not making the best decision. You could be revisiting the scenario once again in the not too far in the future. Yes, you could read the right books; research online (realizing that not everyone on line knows what they are doing); you could even talk to people that have encountered a similar situation so they could perhaps guide you as to where they got their answer even if their core story was different that yours

Here Is Where I Would Begin

The best way to figure out your issue is to realize that your career matters are probably more internal than you think. This means you need to find somebody that can draw back the curtain of the real you. Not the one that you may be trying to hide due to insecurities and low self-esteem; but your skills, interests, abilities, behaviors, functions, roles, motivations, and drivers. Those things that truly make you tick. Most of them you could probably identify but there are many hidden career related concepts that need to be pulled out of you. People that do this recognize that it makes a huge difference, not only in the way they work, but in the way they live life. Many can’t wade into those waters.

Nearly thirty years ago, I Did…

Can You?

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Choosing A Career? Getting the Right Help

So You Need Help Choosing a Career?

I remember…as if it was yesterday…the day I had my first visit with this career specialist who was to assist me in one of the most important decisions of my life.  Choosing a career, a new one, an unexpected path for me. I wasn’t completely leaving my former field of work, but I was very aware it needed to be adjusted implementing a fresh approach.

Back in the fall of 1999, I knew who I had been, but really didn’t know who I would become, where I would end up or how I would get there. I was both afraid and excited at the same time. 

So…Who are you?

Whether you are at the beginning of your journey or you have worked for a while and need to make a shift, you need to know where you ahve been and who you are before choosing a career. Are you…

1.    A student looking at career and university options
2.    A frustrated employee needing a career shift
3.    A person who has gone through the devastation of job loss for one of many reasons
4.    I can’t state everyone’s situation so you fill in the blank here

Who Should I Go To For Help?

There are a few names for people who can help you through the process of choosing a career and each name determines the approach that will be taken. The three main titles are Career Counselor, Career Consultant and Career Coach. The all do the same thing but each one has a stronger focus that the other two in three necessary elements in the process

• The Career Counselor would be the strongest dealing with the emotional factors, the “heart or values” of your career concerns
• The Career Consultant would be the strongest dealing with the rational factors, the “mind or logic” of your career process
• The Career Coach would be the strongest dealing with the motivational factors, the “action aspect” of your career shift

If you search the internet you will find all three but reality is that anyone helping you in your career path should be able to move fluidly between each one as your personal need arises, even though they may be stronger on one area more than another. Which approach is needed depends on your personal situation.

Some Examples to Help You Decide

If for example you have gone through job loss through downsizing, you will probably need to deal with some of the anger or sorrow factors before you can move forward with the rest of the process. More of the counselor would be required here. To try to take a logical or motivational path here would probably prove futile.

If on the other hand there is no emotional attachment to your current career situation, but you have no idea where to begin, then objective analysis of your position by assessing your skills, abilities, drivers, interests, core needs, resumes, interviews, market research, etc. would be in order. The objectivity of the consultant would be required here. To focus on emotional or motivational path here would be a waste of time.

Perhaps you are either over or have no emotional issues but all the objective work has been completed but you are having a hard time getting the drive to move forward to the next step of career discovery or transition, you would be in need of a cheer leader and accountability partner. This is where the Coach steps up to the plate and helps you with motivation. To try to move forward when there is emotional baggage or a lack of functional and process understanding would be futile here.

Before You Even Begin Choosing A Career

If you are dealing with introductory or transitional career issues, where should you go from here?

1.    Take time to reflect…have a look inside
2.    Take an inventory, and document it
3.    Get feedback from those close to you

When you are sitting down in front of the one you have chosen to work you through the process, you can tell them exactly where you are and a good Career Counselor, Consultant or Coach will know exactly where to begin.

So, what is your story? What has been your experience with a Career “Guru” of some sort? Do you really understand the role of such a person in your life?

I’d love to hear from you!

Murray

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So you have a Career Satisfaction Issue?

Which word in the title captivated you more? Statistics or Emotional. Both are needed to address your concern.

By nature, I love to do two things: Analyse & Categorize; and yes, in that order. As a rule, I don’t park in the seemingly mundane world of mathematics. However I usually do when it supports my real focus of helping people get a grip on their World of Work.

So What Are the Career Satisfaction Statistics?

Back in 2000 when I was in College for my Career Counselor course, I was blown away when I heard the numbers. Perhaps (or not) they will surprise you. Out of every 10 people:

• 3 are always looking for another job
• 3 are considering looking for another job
• 3 want to look for another job but lack the courage to move forward
• 1 is content & happy with their career.

What this is saying is that 90% of people in varying degrees have career issues. Only 10% are have Career Satisfaction. I admit, I couldn’t believe it but stats don’t lie. Those stats are very similar to the numbers from a Gallup Pole posted in a recent Forbes article. The Gallup numbers are based on the feedback from 230,000 people in 142 countries. That is a very large sampling. It shows that 87% were dissatisfied with their work while only 13% had Career Satisfaction.

On January 21st, 2015, our local newspaper, the Ottawa Sun posted an article called ‘New Year’s Resolution: Improve Job Satisfaction’. This article digs a little deeper identifying three factors for those that took the plunge and made the life changing decision to make a career shift. It was life changing because:

• 86% identified new skills they were able to use
• 80% found work that was more meaningful
• 70% had an increase in pay

What Do These Statistics Mean ‘Emotionally’

So let’s consider the emotional impact of what we have just referenced. Listen to the language. Even the words Career Satisfaction had an emotional bend to it. Each word either directly or indirectly has something to do with a feeling.

• Satisfaction – A positive emotion that indicates internal peace and contentment
• Dissatisfaction – A negative emotion that creates unsettledness
• New Skills – In this context, the positivity of new opportunity and a move away from boredom
• Meaningful – Supports our need for significance. We ALL need to feel we have made a contribution
• Increased Income – I have never seen a person unhappy that they got a raise. It is a tangible reward for efforts given.

Here is a Little Test

So what am I trying to say? Unless you chose to read this post or visit CareerFitForYou.com because you had someone else in mind, you are reading this because you are part of the 87 – 90% who are struggling with work related issues. Check off the statements below you relate to:

1.   Do you ‘drag yourself out of bed’ to go to work day in and day out?
2.   Do you live for long weekends, holidays and days off?
3.   Do you resent the career path you chose?
4.   Do the responsibilities of life make you feel trapped in your current work and a shift doesn’t seem possible?
5.   Do you get frustrated thinking about work hours that are too long and the pay so low?
6.   Do you believe you have so much more to offer than what you are doing?
7.   Do you leave work with the words ‘insignificant’ and ‘meaningless’ on your mind?

Even if you only related to one of the seven statements, you ‘do’ have an employability issue. Unless dealt with, this will only grow. Your desperation to take action will be in proportion to the number of the above statements you identified as yours. The higher the number, the greater the need to do something about it. And this leads to our last point…

What are you going to do about it?

Listen up! I know where you have been. I know where you are. I have been there. I feel your pain. So what are you going to do? CareerFitForYou.com is designed for you. On it you will find…

• Lots of free content and training that will give base level support
• A place to sign up for a Free eBook that will help you begin to think in the right direction regarding your Career
• The eBook will lead to a training program full of great material on Career Self-Assessment that you do from the comfort of your home and on your own timeline
• An online course that will walk you through at a much higher level an in-depth journey to help you understand why you have got to the point in life as well as giving you tools to help you make some decisions that once acted on, can improve your World of Work.

I strongly suggest you take action…today…right now! If you don’t you may read this in a year and ‘nothing’ will have changed, for the positive anyway.

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It would be an honor to see you there.

 

 

(Gallup/Forbes Article mentioned can be found here)

Sometimes when you are getting Career Advice, the best lessons come from those that have been on the job for a while.

There is value in hearing the decisions that were made and how those decisions impacted not only their career but ultimately all aspects of their life.

Here is such a story.

Due to the economy, and some poor choices by the CEO, a company was forced to close. To help their employee’s transition, Human Resources established a Career Center, a type of command center where they could go and check out local and regional opportunities. I was placed in the centre for a few weeks to help out while I was still in college. The three people that were put in charge were not trained in any career initiatives whatsoever.

Career Advice: When Assessments Speak

I am one who strongly believes in using a variety career assessments because they generate the needed dialogue to make good decisions. We set aside a number of hours for me to work personally with the three resource center staff. This story is about one who happened to be a purchasing agent. The clock was ticking. He would soon be out of work.

For me, the day we went over his Interest Inventory result was a day to remember. It was a good lesson for me to learn early in my career as an employment counselor. For some reason this fellow was very sceptical about any type of personal assessment so the fact that we got him this far was nothing short of a miracle. The highest score he achieved was that of a School Teacher, something he had always wanted to be. Basically, to this point he had spent all of his high paid working life in a job he didn’t like. The plant closure was a blessing in disguise, especially when the career he wanted to pursue all his life was…you guessed it…a School Teacher. His scepticism waned. My confidence in the process was built. But now is where the lesson really begins.

His Bad Decision

After high school, he was accepted and attended an excellent university and earned his Bachelors Degree. Like many young people, university was his first break from home and his freshman year very quickly became party central. During those early years, his social life with its taste of freedom trumped his academic pursuits. As a result, he managed to graduate four years later but with only a 68% average. After graduating he began his purchasing agent job to pay off some debt before his next step, intrinsically knowing what he really wanted to do, go to Teacher’s College. He applied to teacher’s college but was turned down due to his low university average. That was when he learned that to be accepted in this next step of his career path, he needed to have an 80% university average. Here is the lesson. His university lifestyle had cost him the opportunity to do what he really wanted to do. His bad decision caused him to live with regret. It is a shame because he had the goods to do it.

So What Is Your Choice?

I wish the story had a happy ending. I’m not certain where he is now or what he is doing He was able to fulfill a portion of his career aspirations. For several years he made up for his lost opportunity by being highly involved in the city’s athletic programs. Volunteering to coach kid’s playing in a variety of sports filled some of the void, but the reality is, what could have been his career was sacrificed for a bit of fun.

Where Career Advice Starts: It’s Decision Time

The sooner you know what you really want to do, the better. When you know what the career is with it’s requirements and expectations, you develop a plan of action to get you there. You can prepare. There will be no surprizes. This story has made working with students in Senior High School my favorite clients. I love to get them before university happens. It makes me feel that I can make a difference in their life at such an important stage, a stage that not only affects one’s career but their overall life. So, today you have an opportunity to make a decision that will impact all aspects of your future. As a student, CareerFitForYou.com is a great place to begin. On it you will find…

• Lots of free content and training that will give base level support
• A place to sign up for a Free eBook that will help you begin to think in the right direction regarding your Career
• The eBook will lead to a training program full of great material on Career Self-Assessment that you do from the comfort of your home and on your own timeline
• An online course which will help you at a much deeper level make wise and informed choices that will pave the way for ending your Senior High School and transitioning to a College or University where you will prepare for a successful career journey.

Clicking this link would be a great place to start:

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