4. Career

Finding your Vocation

The career area refers to the path of finding your vocation, developing skills and abilities to pursue it and incorporating it into your life in a balanced way. Your vocation is something that:

Everyone’s vocation is different and can change or shape in different ways during your lifetime, so there is not just one way to achieve career success. Finding your vocation can be a long and hard process, but it is important to know that vocation is not a synonym for a job title. In this modern world with thousands of job titles and career names, finding one or trying to fit into one can be exhausting. As complex human beings there is rarely one specific role that will guarantee our happiness or fulfillment, so instead of asking yourself “What profession/career do I want to pursue?” Ask yourself: “What problem do I want to solve?”. This question centers and makes you think about your purpose and, at the same time, opens your career possibilities. 

Pursuing Your Vocation

Once you have found your vocation, the next step centers on planning and working on developing the right skills and abilities to pursue it. Taking action is a key part for achieving success in this area since actions are the ones that produce effect and therefore results.

Creating a plan, even if it is not definitive, helps you progress, progress helps you keep moving, and as you move forward, the path becomes clearer.

Here are three first steps to take action on creating your career plan:

1. Self-assessment: think about your vocation and how your individual skills, strengths and abilities relate to it.
2. Research and explore your options: look for different professions that relate to your vocation and note down the specific skills and abilities that you need to strengthen or develop for them.
3. Set goals and start learning: choose a way to strengthen or develop those skills. Remember there are so many ways to learn, whether that is going to college or university, volunteering, working, learning from professionals, etc.

Action Tasks

1. Access the Success by Design workbook using the button below:
2. On the top right corner, click on “Login“.
3. Enter your email and password to login.
4. Answer the worksheet “6. Career”, your progress will be automatically saved.