Career Vision
Worksheet

Career & Professional Tools

Seven prompts for clarifying what you actually want
from your professional life.

Where This Tool Helps

Most people can describe their current job clearly. Describing their ideal career is harder - not because they don't have preferences, but because they've spent years filtering those preferences against what seems realistic, available, or acceptable. The answers they give quickly reflect what they think they can have, not what they actually want.

This worksheet asks seven questions designed to surface what's underneath those filters. The most useful answers often come from the questions about what you don't enjoy and what comes naturally to you - these two together reveal far more than the "what excites you" question, which tends to produce aspirational but vague responses.

Work through each question in order. Don't edit yourself as you write. The purpose of this worksheet is to generate raw material for reflection, not to produce a polished career statement. You'll do something with what surfaces; first you need to see it.

How to Use This Worksheet

  1. Find 30 uninterrupted minutes. This isn't a form to fill out in five minutes - the questions are designed to surface things you haven't said out loud recently.
  2. Answer questions 3 and 4 first. Activities you don't enjoy and skills others struggle with are the two anchors that make your answers to questions 6 and 7 more specific.
  3. For question 6, suspend the "but that's not realistic" filter entirely. Apply constraints later. Write the unconstrained version first.
  4. Write question 7 last, after you've worked through 1-6. It should reflect the pattern you see, not a separate aspiration.
  5. Bring this to your next session. The questions your coach will ask are designed to move from what you wrote here toward specific decisions.
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Career Vision Worksheet

1. What about your current or past career has genuinely excited you? What do you love?
2. What are you interested in? What would you like to learn more about or explore?
3. What activities in your career do you not enjoy?
4. What skills or abilities come naturally to you that others seem to struggle with?
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Career Vision Worksheet (continued)

5. What activities do you participate in - professionally or personally - that also benefit others?
6. If there were no obstacles, what would your dream career look like?
7. My dream career is:

Before your next session:

Look at your answers to questions 3 and 6 side-by-side. Where do they create tension? Where do they point in the same direction?

If you wrote "I don't know" or left a question blank, that question is worth bringing to your coach. Blanks are data too.

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