Workbook
The Career Identity Workbook
A Self-Discovery Guide for Understanding Your Value, Your Work, and What You're Building
You built the career. You never wrote down what it was for.
For the professional who is competent and unfulfilled, the early-career worker building habits they have not examined, and anyone whose real contribution has never matched the job description.
The Name It First Experience
Most people make career decisions by reacting to offers, circumstances, and the approval they have been carrying since their first review. They end up competent in things that do not matter to them. This workbook interrupts that pattern. You will name what you value, what you bring, what you require, and what you are building toward. The output is Your Career Agreement Charter: a document you write in your own language about the career you intend to have.
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Sample questions
- What is the work you do that feels like yours — distinct from your job title and your job description?
- Which professional opportunity have you pursued because it made sense to someone else, and what did that cost you?
- What would The Career Agreement Charter need to say for it to describe the work you are actually building toward?
Research basis
Hall on protean career theory and self-directed career ownership / Ibarra on working identity and provisional selves in career transitions / Maslach burnout inventory on exhaustion as identity signal / Schlossberg transition theory on navigating career shifts without role markers
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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