Do you have a bucket list for your dream career? A bucket list, as in the movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, is a list of things to experience before ‘kicking the bucket.’
A career bucket list would include the career experiences you want to have before you retire. For some people, those experiences might include working for a particular company, taking a leadership role such as CEO, winning an award, or owning their own company.
What can a bucket list do for your career? It will help you clarify your career goals and criteria. While most people can easily list what they don’t want more of in their career, they find it more difficult to define what the do want.
Whether you expect to be changing careers, making a job change, or just developing your career plan, defining your career goals and criteria is the first major step. And while defining what you want doesn’t seem that difficult, for many people it is. Especially for those who have years of experience in their careers.
Many people chose their careers because of family pressures, for practical reasons, or because of advice from a career counselor, and have long buried their real career desires.
A career bucket list is one tool for clarifying career goals and criteria, the first step to your dream career.
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This is good information. I’m happy to find the sources…
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