• Take vocational tests administered by a qualified career counselor
• Complete self assessment exercises provided in many popular career guidebooks
• Ask people to know you well what they think your interests, strengths, and values are
• Think about what made you happy and what you did particularly well in past jobs, internships, volunteer experiences or class projects
• To assess skills, try to remember looking back through past performance reviews to see what your past or current supervisors and peers have commended you for.
• Simply make a list of top ten things you like, do well, and consider to be important.

How to Assess Work Progress

• Do I have greater scope of responsibility?
• Do I have brighter boss and more intelligent colleagues?
• Do I spend less hour for similar work I did last year?
• Do I get wider knowledge and skills?
• Do I dare to say more NO to my superior?
• Do I receive more salary and benefits rather than I did last year?
• Do I have new colleagues, new challenges, new expectations and new ways of dealing with such unpredictable problems?
• Do I encounter more surprising events in the last six month?
• Do I tend to work or smarter lately?
• Do I add more to the list of business travelling at home and overseas?
• Do I get more clients and receive more complaints in a more complicated manner?
• Do I exercise more influence and have more impact on what I am doing to more people?