This 14-question Self-Assessment helps to clarify your career visions and plans. Questions on mental pictures of the future, engagement in a particular behavior, and moving up in organizations are presented.

Answer the following:

1. What did you learn about your future career identity? Are you surprised by the results? The Mission Statement—“What Is Your Reason for Being?”

● A mission is the purpose or reason for being.

● A mission statement expresses the purpose. The Vision Statement—“What Do You Want to Become?” ● The vision is a long-term goal describing “what” you want to become; it is a clear sense of the future and the actions needed to get there.

2. Write a personal mission and vision statement using the ideas discussed

3. Based on your results, what might you do to enhance your future career identity?

4. Use the answer to question #3 to create at least two SMART goals that will aid in your vision.