What is success to you?
People have different notions of success – reflect on what a successful life and career looks like for you. This activity sets the scene for what you are aiming for in this program.

Your career journey map
Map out your life and career journey to date. Mark significant achievements, life events and decisions on a timeline and reflect on your life satisfaction at these intervals. We draw on your journey map throughout the program to stimulate thinking about what you will do next, what you will carry with you and what you will leave behind.

Your career beliefs
Reflect on decisions you have made, opportunities you have taken or not. What are your ‘I cants’? What’s holding you back?

Your values
You will be more productive, more satisfied and at peace with yourself if your work aligns with your values. But are you clear on what are your most important values? This topic gets you thinking about what’s really important to you. You may be surprised at what you find.

Your interests, skills, talents and passions
This topic will help you identify your skills, with a particular focus on the transferable skills that will help you take your next step or rethink your career. You will reflect on the achievements and life highlights in your career journey map to help crystallise your motivated skills – the ones you most want to use in the future, as well as your natural talents and interests.

Life stages and changes
Consider the changes that are coming in your life. How will you adapt? What are you looking forward to? This topic helps you to consider what’s coming up for you personally that will impact on your career decisions. We help you to consider different scenarios as you reach a ‘fork in the road’.

Work-life integration and well-being
The COVID pandemic has accelerated workplace change and forced employers to rethink how work gets done. We help you assess your satisfaction with your work-life balance and think about how you can take advantage of new opportunities for flexible working into the future.

Career options
Consider the information we provide on employment and skills trends. Use our list of career options as a launching pad for your own ideas about what you could do next.

Career SWOT
Pull everything together in this topic by examining your career strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This will be invaluable in helping you set career goals that capitalise on your opportunities whilst being realistic about any career weaknesses you need to address.

Goal Setting
Draw on your SWOT to identify your medium to longer term career goals. This will provide a framework for specific actions you need to take in the ‘Refine’ phase of the program.

Enhance your WoWT profile and resume
If you haven’t already set up your WoWT online profile, now is the time to do it. If you have, then it’s time to review it. Have you included the right skills and achievements that will appeal to employers who align with what you want to do next? Have you nailed your ‘In a nutshell’ summary? We provide tips and tricks to get your profile looking great.

Networking and job search
Networking is the best way to find your next opportunity. We challenge you to get active reconnecting with old networks, developing new ones and capitalising on the value of ‘weak ties’. We also provide some helpful tips on how to improve your LinkedIn profile to help you with your next venture.

Interviews
For those of you who have decided a new job is for you and can’t even remember your last interview, we have exercises to help you prepare, with particular strategies for career-changers 45+. Practise with real questions used by real recruiters and get on the front foot to address any potential age-bias.

Taking action
Take some time to make sure you are ready for your next move, and energised for a job hunt or a new venture. Do you need to do a short course? Are you set up for remote working? What’s a reasonable salary expectation? Who will be your referees? And if you are setting up a business, do you have an ABN?

Starting a business, hybrid entrepreneurship and consulting
If you have decided to pursue self employment after many years of being an employee, you will need to start thinking about a range of issues that may be very new to you. Here we provide some thought starters at this early stage of your journey.

The rapidly accelerating pace in the development and adoption of new technologies is affecting all areas of work and society.

In our Reflect, Rethink, Refine program we provide a range of overview and deep dive videos on the most commonly used business software across a range of industries to keep you up to date.

Business IT trends

Collaboration tools

Cloud computing

AI (artificial intelligence)

ERP (enterprise resource planning)

IT Trends to watch

LinkedIn CRM (customer relationship management)

Cyber security

Presentation software