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Career Imagination is about envisioning what’s truly possible for your work life and, just as importantly, believing that those dreams can become reality. In this video we help you develop and refine your ideal career.

You can create a short list by talking to people, letting them help, and doing solid research.

At this stage, you have identified two or three preferred jobs or career paths. With these in mind, we’ll continue to check, adapt, and replace as needed.

Your social network is one of your most powerful assets for career growth and transition. Thinking about your social network as part of the work process can help you be smart about how you engage with other people.

You can expand your professional social network in various ways, starting with informal conversations with people you know and building to associates and more distant connections.

A good mentor will guide, critique, and encourage you. They’ll teach you, promote you, and act as a model. Mentors not only help us learn our jobs, but they can also help us get jobs and offer career guidance. You’ll offer gratitude, kindness and help in return.

Regardless of how introverted or extraverted you are, you need to use and develop your professional social network.

The people we work with are key to our professional success. Even if you prefer to work alone and keep to yourself, you’re still part of a bigger team. Teams are fundamental to our work experience, and you always have an important role to play.

The modern job market demands continuous learning.Employers are consistently looking for both soft and hard skills. This is good news for you because with this knowledge you can upskill and fill a need.

From consulting a colleague to online courses with micro credentials, there are many ways to get your desired skills; there is no one best way.

Lifelong learning is key to career success and it can take many forms. Many of the skills we use at work we have developed outside work: at home, in the community.

When you lean into your strengths, you develop and demonstrate your passion, conviction, depth, and most importantly, your confidence. And even better, this is inspiring to other people.

Career transitions often bring challenges like self-doubt, fear of change, and potentially periods of unemployment (statistically, on average it take 5 months to find a new job). Here we help you recognize and address these mental barriers.

Professionalism is an important part of excellence and is essential to be to build your career—at any stage. Professionalism also makes you easier to work with and helps you build your professional social network.

Here we revisit the Career Imagination process and help you revise and refine your short list of career possibilities.

A plan is a series of steps laid out in order so that they can be followed to a successful conclusion, leading you to just where you want to be. Here we help you build your career change action plan.

Changing careers can be challenging, stressful, and take longer than expected. Making, adapting, and shifting your plan are all things that can get you to the finish line.

We hope that the Career Imagination Lab will provide you with some path to dream big and turn dreams into reality.