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The Implicit Career Search is a series of workshops that assists participants in identifying their unique work purpose and developing a detailed career plan based on the contribution they want to make in the world.
What is it you want to contribute to the world? This question is addressed in the first part of the workshop and an emphasis is placed on the importance of developing self-awareness in order to make an authentic, meaningful career decision.
Operating on the premise that if we really knew ourselves we would know what contribution we want to make in our work, this approach to career exploration provides participants with new access to self-knowledge. We all have an “implicit” (available, but not apparent) career deep inside of us. Developing our self-awareness helps us to develop the self-esteem and courage to uncover what our implicit career is. Subsequent workshops in the program give you the tools to take action.
Using a series of group and individual exercises involving imagery, body movement, assessments, interpersonal feedback, discussion, personal inquiry, and reflection, participants begin the life long process of discovering who they are. Choosing a career becomes an inwardly focused process, resulting in a decision based on the human desire to make a contribution, rather than the question “what jobs are available out there?”
Once the work purpose is identified, a detailed career plan is developed to answer the second question “How am I going to get paid for this?” The Career Development Spectrum model allows participants to get clear on how to proceed in order to align their careers with their work purpose (or arrive at a strategy for developing that work purpose into a career). The journey continues from there.
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