Get your own Free Home PageSTEP FIVE (30 minutes)
For the final step of the exploration process, take a new piece of paper and write down your top three jobs that you may want to learn more about that you would be qualified for. To do this, you probably want to refer back to the lists you made before and the research you did. Make sure as you write the list that these are jobs someone with your credentials would be qualified for and that exist in the geographic region you will be in speaking a language you know. If you have only written down jobs that you would not be qualified for, write a list of 3 of those dream jobs and then 3 intermediate jobs which may lead to your dream jobs. For example, if you want to be a lawyer but you only have a bachelor's degree and need to work before law school, you might write down that you want to work in a law office, do public policy research at a think tank, or work for an elected public official (although those would not be the only answers -- there are no "right" answers as long as these are things you would enjoy that you could possibly get a job in).
Make sure that you have three realistic possibilities down. If you do, then it's time for one of two options (you choose, depending on your plan and how you think it's going):
1) go to my career links page to take career inventories to find out more about yourself
2) go to my page on finding a job to use your list of three possible jobs to search for those jobs.
Or, if you'd like, just go back to my main career page here.
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