How do I determine my career passion?
One of the things that a career counsellor will do is help that client get to know themselves as well as they possibly can; their interests, their skills, and their values. Also, for many clients a spiritual component is important because they want to feel like their work is making a difference and that it is somehow contributing to the world. Whether you want to add the spiritual component to that part of it or not is completely up to you, but it is very, very critical for you to get to know yourself well. In my practice is we use a number of assessments to help you do this. We also use a very in-depth values assessment that helps clients get extremely clear on what is truly important to them; what they're willing to trade off on in terms of their work and the things that they're not. We call that their value's bible, and what that does is it enables them to take that information and weigh it against any possible career option that comes their way. So, they can then look at this particular career and even if it sounds really fun they can say "Gosh, you know it sounds great but it doesn't match my value system, so I can comfortably let this go." That winds up being so tremendously empowering for clients. In terms of getting to know what your passion is, I think that's one of the most critical things that every single human being needs to do.
