Learn how to build your career road map by discovering your ideal career. You can do this through asking key questions that will get you there.

1. Building your
career road map
Checking out the route

2. Start with you
What
makes
you,
you?
Skills
Tendencies
Drivers
Traits
Qualities

3. From job to
career – key
questions
What is the difference
between a job and a
career?
Can you be happy in a
job that is not your
dream career?
What if there is no
market for the career
you want?
What if all your skills are
in a closed or declining
industry?
What are you “born to
do” that you could do in
multiple industries and
jobs as long as you can
keep doing it?
How can you use an
existing job as a
stepping stone?

4. What’s your
ideal career?
 Describe a perfect career in
terms of what you would be:
 Doing
 Being
 Developing
 Describe people
 Describe your contribution

5. Drawyourcareer
journey

7. Findpatterns
fromthepast
Focuson the
futuregoal

8. Fill in the
blanks for your
career
“People who are successful (career goal)…
Are….
Do…
Meet…
Develop…”

9. What drives
you?
Let’s find out!

10. Drivers
Your drivers will affect your
career plans, decisions and
opportunities

11. What drives
you?
Sonia
Stringer’s
word
cluster
exercise
Accepted
Accomplish
Acknowledged
Be loved
Be right
Be cared for

12. Accepted
Be
approved
01
Be cool
02
Be
respected
03
Be
popular
04
Be
included
05
Be liked
06

13. Accomplish
Achieve
01
Attain
02
Be the best
03
Victory
04
Perform
05
Accomplish
06

14. Acknowledged
Be appreciated
01
Complimented
02
Be valued
03
Worthy
04
Be thanked
05
Acknowledged
06

15. Be loved
Cherished
01
Touched
02
Desired
03
Validated
04
Adored
05
Loved
06

16. Be right
Honest
01
Understood
02
Be
encouraged
03
Correct
04
Moral
05
Right
06

17. Be cared for
Get
attention
01
Be helped
02
Cared
about
03
Be
supported
04
Embraced
05
Saved
06

18. GetSonia’s full exercise
here:
https://docplayer.net/155175989-What-s-driving-you-discover-
the-invisible-forces-that-are-sabotaging-your-next-level-of-
success-balance-and-fulfillment.html

19. Buildinga
professional
network

20. Networking
from stories
1 - theirs

21. 2 – yours
…what would
you want to
learn from me?

22. Networks
endure

23. Offer to help –
givers gain!

24. Recap!
Network Network with intent to help others, learn from them, learn about you
Identify Identify your drivers
Visualize Visualize what your career success looks like
Choose Choose a desired destination and work backwards
Map out Map out your journey
Clarify Know what you want from a career
Know Know yourself – descriptions and reflection on what makes you you

25. Want more
specific help?
Reach your
destination
faster!
Talk to me
about career
coaching!

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