Objective.

Review your career Journey and identify patterns.

Identify what has worked for you in your career, and what has not.

Understanding your Success factors and how you can use them going forward.

Why it’s important to look back.

This exercise is designed to prompt you to look back at your career journey to date, to review the highs and lows, what you’ve achieved, what you’re proud of and what you’ve learnt along the way.

You might be asking why look back when what you really want to do is to look forward? We can learn an enormous amount about who we are from where we have been. Most of us never get the opportunity to do a thorough stock-take of our working lives, moving instead reactively from one job to the next, without taking the time to stop and reflect.

This exercise provides an in-depth learning process about what has worked for you in the past and what has not, so that you can use the best elements of your past as a foundation for building your future.

Your Career Chronology.

Start by using the tables on pages 2 and 3 to record all the main jobs that you’ve had since leaving school or college (you can leave out any temporary or vacation jobs that you’ve had, if you wish) up to and including your current or last job. Print additional pages if you need to!

Job	Why did you take this job	Level of satisfaction	Positives	Negatives	Why did you Leave?
*Employer, job title and approximate dates*	*What was your specific motivation for taking this job?*	*Thinking of your overall experience of this job, rate your satisfaction on a scale of 1(low) to 10 (high). Give your reasons for this rating*	*What did you like about this job? What motivated you about it? In what ways did it fulfil you? What did you achieve there?*	*What did you dislike about this job? What demotivated you about it? In what ways did it fail to fulfil you? What were your struggles there?*	*Be honest here, what were your true reasons for leaving? If you were laid off, what were the reasons behind that? In what way might you have contributed to the lay-off?*
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