Career Story Craft · The Career Power Index

How much power do you have in your career?

Under most symptoms of career crisis — feeling stuck, lost, boxed in — rests one root cause: powerlessness.

✕Power over — external authority, high status, controlling others.
✓Power to — steer yourself, say no, define success.

Career power is the feeling that your career is:

  1. Driven by you, not the market or your employer
  2. Optimised for your life, not external rewards
  3. Aimed at subjective factors of psychological success
  4. Flexible: you can shape-shift into who you want to be now

10 years of research · 33 questions · rated 1–5 · 3 minutes.

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Putting this together for you…

Your Career Power Index

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The 6 Contributing Sources of Power, your Top Power Source, and your Biggest Power Gap.

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Based on the Career Orientation Index (Hall, Briscoe, Lee & Kossek, 2007).
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