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.

This is 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.

You'll produce:your Your Career Agreement Charter

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.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What is the work you do that feels like yours — distinct from your job title and your job description?
  2. Which professional opportunity have you pursued because it made sense to someone else, and what did that cost you?
  3. 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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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$22.99

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

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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Digital Fill + membership+membership

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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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

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