Finding your path: What do you want to be when you grow up?

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

It is a question often asked to children to stimulate their imagination, to teenagers to help them dispel some of the confusion that characterizes their age, and to young people to try to project them toward a professional future.

Adults also happen to hear this question, and even if they are in the prime of their careers, the answer may not be so easy to find.

How many times have we been asked this question and how many times have we been unable to answer it?

Indeed, at certain times in one’s working life it happens that one finds oneself in difficulty in defining a path for the future, in identifying a specific professional role that can put professional skills and personal aptitudes to good use.

When this happens, it highlights the need to go a little deeper within oneself, to discover what needs, values and desires can guide one in choosing a career path. It is essential to recognize what aspects can help activate the charge of fulfilment and satisfaction, ensuring a better fit in the organizational context.

The real purpose of what we in the #Outplacement, #CareerConsulting and #YouthOrientation world call #SkillsBalance is precisely this, to trigger in the candidates we follow a process of self-analysis that fosters the development of #Awareness, capable of guiding career choices.

When awareness is achieved, the tricky part begins: making a decision.

If you understand that the work you are doing is not what you “wanted to do when you grew up,” you can no longer pretend not to know, and the possible paths become only two: accept and try to derive satisfaction from what you are doing or take the risk and face change.