Dream Job Discovery Process
Be open in this process. Don’t stop yourself from dreaming. It is important to be honest in saying what you want and don’t want in a job. There are no right or wrong answers. Ask these following questions.

1. What will you be doing?
Describe what your average day will look like? What about an average week or month? What will you get a buzz out of? What will you do because you have to? What do you never want to do?

2. Who will you be working with?
Will you be working alone or with a team, or both? What kind of people do you like hanging out with?

3. Who will be your boss?
No one because you want to be the boss? A bunch of cool clients, because you want to run your own business. If you want a boss what will he or she be like? What will his or her values be? Which famous leaders do you respect?

4. Where will you work?
Location, location, location? Small company or large company?

5. Why will you be doing this?
What is your passion? Why do you work? How do you want you career to be remembered?

6. What’s missing?
Anything you need to add, add. It’s your dream job, so give yourself permission to think big. Make this description as complete as possible.

7. Armed with your inner and outer weapons you are ready to go into battle for your dream job.

Author's Bio: 

David Couper is a career coach and writer who for the last twenty years has worked in Europe, Asia, and in the USA with major organizations including the BBC, Fuji Television, Mattel, Sony, and Warner Bros.

He has successfully coached individuals at all levels including CEOs of major companies wanting a new challenge, frustrated souls wanting to make their dream come true, and front-line employees laid off and desperate to get a job.

David has published seven books. His works on interpersonal skills, counseling in the workplace, and management issues (published by Connaught, Gower, HRD Press, Longman, Macmillan/Pearson Publishing, Oxford University Press) have been translated into Swedish, Polish, and Danish, and published in the UK and the USA.

David has a degree in Communication, a postgraduate qualification in education, is certified in a number of training technologies, and has a Masters in Psychology. He is a member of the American Society of Training and Development, Society of Human Resources Professional, Writers Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television.

He has dual US/UK citizenship and speaks French and Japanese.

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