As I was doing the personal strategy assignment for this week, I remembered a mind map, I had done back when I was in my last year of undergraduate engineering studies (Year 2012) with a job offer in hand and trying to figure out how to reconcile my interests with short term goal of getting into a Masters Program in the US ( I had given GRE and was thinking PhD :p ) and long-term goals of whether I really wanted to be in research.
I felt the mindmapping technique maybe useful, especially if you make multiple versions, if you want to go deeper in career interests exploration apart from developing the personal Hedgehog model. (Concept Refresh- http://agilelifestyle.net/the-personal-hedgehog-concept)
Here’s two links I liked that can get you started in the process:
- https://medium.com/@iriscai_57883/3-ways-of-using-mind-mapping-to-design-your-career-get-unstuck-6fea5e492348
- https://www.northeastern.edu/careers/blog/mind-mapping-your-career/
Though a bit dated here’s the link to my interests mindmap from way back (2012) :
I have tried to look back at it sometimes and though I do have new interests, some have stayed on and helped me find links between what already interests me.
Hope it can help you in making your own mindmaps and ultimately finding what you are passionate about in the long run.
Please let me know if you found it useful and if you were able to tell if I still have any of the same interests when you have met me 🙂 . I’m going to try to make a new one too !
Originally Published on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-interest-mind-maps-puranjay-mahapatra/
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