What Does Your Dream Job Look Like?

Try the flower exercise to find out

Fahri Karakas
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
7 min readOct 26, 2020

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Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash

In this post, I will share a very valuable career exercise you can easily apply to explore your dream job. This exercise is from the best-selling job search book titled “What Color is Your Parachute?”. It is called “The Flower Exercise”.

The flower exercise is a self-assessment exercise aimed at helping you discover yourself, your strengths, skills, and preferences. As the key to finding your ideal job is to explore who you are, this exercise is very valuable in finding your career priorities and choices. In a nutshell, the flower exercise helps you figure out what type of work is most appropriate for you. It includes a set of questions to nail down what you are looking for. These questions take the form of petals on a flower. Each petal represents an aspect of your dream job that you should consider carefully.

Flower Exercise is from the book “What Color is Your Parachute?”, Image Source

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Fahri Karakas
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Associate Professor in Business & Leadership at University of East Anglia. Passionate about doodling, imagination, and creativity. Author of Self-Making Studio.