In this article on how to find your professional project, I offer useful advice that will help you gain more clarity about the direction you want to give to your professional life.
Discover my tips now.
1 – Start with what you already know
The first step is to identify the technical and behavioral skills you already possess.
To achieve this, think about all your professional experiences and try to extract these skills.
Think about how you were able to perform before undertaking a given job and what you learned by practicing it.
If you have a lot of experience, you can compile this information and prepare a skills-based CV.
Then, after gathering all these skills, start looking for positions that match your know-how and interpersonal skills.
2 – Identify the gap between your project and reality
Finding your professional project sometimes requires developing new skills. This realization is a crucial moment for your professional success.
List all the skills that match your professional aspirations and prepare an action plan to start bridging the gap between your project and your current situation.
Think about all the means that can help you get closer to your goal.
Do you need to follow a training course?
Do you want to be supported by a coach or a mentor?
Can you do an internship?
Can you gain new professional experience?
Can you help a professional for free who can help you learn faster what you need?
Answering these and other questions will help you find the right answers and take action regularly and more quickly.
3 – Think about your desires and needs
What are your professional desires?
What do you need to thrive at work?
Even if you have all the necessary skills to realize your professional project, you must not forget what motivates you to get up in the morning and what is essential for your satisfaction.
List all your desires and needs on a sheet. Then, prioritize them and before applying for a job, make sure that the needs and desires that are priorities for you are well respected.
If you do not take them into account in your professional project and in your job search, you will not find a satisfying job, you will waste time, you will feel dissatisfied and demotivated.
4 – Define what is acceptable and what is not
When thinking about your professional project, it is also important to be aware of your limits, that is, what you consider to be acceptable and what is not in a job.
Think about your professional past and write a list of everything you no longer want to experience at work.
Also write another list concerning what you would like to experience as much as possible during your days.
Then prepare a last list about what is negotiable within the framework of your professional project.
Doing this will allow you to further refine your professional project.
5 – Think about what you are passionate about
What do you love doing just for the pleasure of it?
What makes you unique?
What can you do better than others?
What comes easily to you?
Answering these questions will help you identify your innate talents. These are skills that you have possessed since birth.
These are aspects of your character or abilities that are deeply integrated into your usual way of being and behaving.
Incorporating these innate qualities into your job search process will help you find and succeed in your professional project.
6 – Hire a coach
It is not always easy to find your professional path, and sometimes the best way to achieve this is to seek external help.
A coach can help you identify your innate talents, become aware of what is holding you back, implement an action plan to achieve your goals, and save time.
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Français : Comment trouver son projet professionnel : les étapes essentielles
Italiano: Come trovare il tuo piano di carriera: i passi essenziali