1. What do you like most about yourself?
2. In the past 10 years, what 5 things have given you the greatest pleasure?
3. If you were working a four day work week, what would you do on the other days? What would you prefer to do?
4. Who would you like to be if you weren’t yourself? Why?
5. If you could replace a friend or relative in his or her job for one year, which one would you choose? Why?
6. What things did you like about your last job? Why?
7. Do you prefer working: alone / with others, outside / indoors, with tools or equipment, detail work, physically active work, having responsibility / not having responsibility, knowing what you will be doing each day / variety, being busy, other
8. Are any of the following things particularly important to you? Hours, salary, access to transportation, close to home, learning something new, independence on the job, approval of others, social status on the job, other
9. Make a list of the things that you don’t want in your work situation, and then list its opposite. It is often easier to think of what you don’t want to do than what you do want to do. For example, “I don’t want to work with people”. This may suggest either not working with the public or working in a large enough office or factory so that you would have little interaction with co-workers.
10. List as many occupations as you can think of that you were ever interested in and think about what it is about them that you like.
Fran Watson
www.franwatson.ca
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