Using Your List of Gifts & Talents

If you had a list of the things you were great at, what would you do with it?

If you are not sure, below are a few ideas for how to use your list to find your dream job or start your dream business. (If you don't have a list of your gifts and talents yet, see our Next Step links.)

Search For Work You Love

You can use your list to start reviewing job ads, career descriptions and business concepts.

Look for work where you can develop and use your gifts and talents.
Seek out jobs where you get to spend most of your day using your top skills, sensitivities and areas of awareness and knowing.
Look for jobs that offer you the best growth opportunities as your skill level improves.
Identify the professions and trades that place a high value on your gifts and talents.

For more ideas, look at our dream job pages.

Evaluate Job Offers & Opportunities

Consider which ones offer you "soft benefits" like developing your gifts and talents and help you round out your portfolio of skills and experience.
Identify the top positions by looking at which ones want you to use, as well as more fully develop, your skills. Assess how much of the day you will spend using them.

Create Compelling Resumes and Cover Letters

Highlight your top skills in your work history as well as a skills list.
List your underdeveloped or underused skills in the objectives statement or cover letter to indicate your interest in using them more.

Select Vocational Training

Pick classes which help you develop your talents, tap into your gifts and gain hands on experience using your natural abilities as well as theoretical knowledge.
Evaluate schools, college majors, vocational programs, apprenticeships and internships based on which ones will most help you develop your gifts and talents in a useful, practical and employable way.

For more ideas, look at our student resource pages.

Start Thinking about Careers and Business Ideas

We think you may want to start now to plan for the long term and create work that is based around using your gifts and talents.

Look for careers and businesses that will reward you for using your gifts and talents.
Evaluate how each will allow you to grow and evolve, and what additional skills will be required as you advance.

For more ideas, look at our dream career and dream business resource pages and read about how to create dream business ideas.

The Next Step

If you do not already have a list of your natural abilities, create one using one of our guidebooks ...

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