1. © Career Matters 20081 平安福音堂．大專事工日營 畢業前路茫茫？職業的另命 工作坊 Philip Wu (pwu@careermatters.com.hk) 29 July 2008

2. © Career Matters 20082 Grace fulfills nature 恩典成全本性 - Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274

3. © Career Matters 20083 Life as a calling We want to do more than going to work, coming home from work We want to feel we were put here on Earth for some special purpose, to do some unique work that only we can accomplish (e.g. Jacob ’ s “ stained glass window ” ) We want to have a sense of mission or calling in our life and work

4. © Career Matters 20084 Life as a calling A continuing task that one is destined or fitted to do A responsibility that one is specially called upon to undertake

5. © Career Matters 20085 Three callings in life 1. To know the caller To know God, and enjoy Him forever, and to see His hand in all His works

6. © Career Matters 20086 Three callings in life 2. To make a better world To do what you can, moment by moment, day by day, step by step, to make this world a better place, following the leading and guidance of God ’ s Spirit within you and around you

7. © Career Matters 20087 Three callings in life 3. Your unique calling To exercise that talent which you particularly came to Earth to use-- your greatest gift, which you most delight to use in the place(s) or setting(s) which God has caused to appeal you the most for those purposes which God most needs to have done in the world

8. © Career Matters 20088 Unlearning false assumptions FALSE: Our unique calling must consist of some achievement which all the world will see TRUE: Neither we nor those who watch our life will always know what we have achieved by our life and by our calling TRUE: It may be that by the grace of God we helped bring about a better change in the world, but it also may be that this takes place beyond our sight, or after we have gone on

9. © Career Matters 20089 Unlearning false assumptions FALSE: We can always find our calling in one go or through some mountaintop experience TRUE: Our calling is to take one step at a time in the valley, even when we don ’ t yet see where it all is leading, or what the Grand Plan is, or what our overall mission in life is TRUE: It is likely that we cannot ever get to our larger mountaintop calling unless we have first lived out our day-to-day calling faithfully in the valley (cf. Jacob ’ s story)

10. © Career Matters 200810 Unlearning false assumptions FALSE: Calling is something God just orders us to do, without any agreement from our spirit, mind, and heart TRUE: God so honors our free will that He has ordained our unique calling be something which we have some part in choosing

11. © Career Matters 200811 Unlearning false assumptions FALSE: We can expect to find our calling when God will reveal to us plainly beyond all doubt and uncertainty — a voice in the air, a thought in our head, a dream in the night, a sign in an event …— which is otherwise completely hidden TRUE: God has already revealed to us our calling by causing it to be written in our talents and skills, and in His guidance of our heart

12. © Career Matters 200812 Calling as intersection The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world ’ s deep hunger meet. -- Fred Buechner

13. © Career Matters 200813 Calling as intersection: example 1 My Mission is, out of the rich reservoir of love which God has given me, to nurture and show love to others — most particularly to those who are suffering from incurable diseases.

14. © Career Matters 200814 Calling as intersection: example 2 My Mission is to make people laugh, so that the travail of this earthly life does not seem quite hard to them.

15. © Career Matters 200815 Calling as intersection: example 3 My Mission is to help people know the truth, in love, about what is happening out in the world, so that there will be more honesty in the world.

16. © Career Matters 200816 Calling as intersection: example 4 何守謙 房屋署總建築師

17. © Career Matters 200817 What is life-work planning? It is about managing changes and transitions in life Life-work planning = Life-work project management + Life-work transition management = Self management

18. © Career Matters 200818 Life-work planning: a systems view Life-work Project Management Transition Mgt Life-work Project Management Life-work Project Management Transition Mgt

19. © Career Matters 200819 Life-work planning: a whole-life perspective Transition Mid-Adult Years Senior Adult Years Transition Early Adult Years

20. © Career Matters 200820 What is life-work planning? It ’ s a continuous process about discerning that vocation into which you ’ re particularly called. The process requires you to identify a.o.: your gifts and talents which you most delight to use your values which you significantly place on your life and work the fields of interest that appeal you most your personality style that you often bring to work unconsciously the places and settings to which you ’ re particularly drawn constraints that you perceived as hurdles or limitations to actualizing your vocation

21. © Career Matters 200821 How to discern your calling in life? Motivated abilities Life-work values Fields of interest Personality style Location People & work settings Constraints VOCATION

22. © Career Matters 200822 Self-assessment: 7 critical factors 1.Geographical location 2.Preferred people & work settings 3.Motivated Abilities Pattern (Transferable Skills) 4.Fields of interest 5.Personality style 6.Life-work values 7.Constraints

23. © Career Matters 200823 Self- Assessment External Analysis Develop Options Decide Options Plan Transition Implement Transition Review Results Life-work planning process

24. © Career Matters 200824 如果我要以一個牧師的 身分於迫在眉睫的大戰 中服事我的同胞，我就 必須回到家鄉，與他們 一同受苦。 －潘霍華（ 1906-1945 ） Discerning vocation – Location

25. © Career Matters 200825 People & work settings 1.Form of employment Full-time, part-time, contracting, own business … 2.Work environment Large MNEs, SMEs, status, office environment, job security, competitive/performance-driven, C&B 3.Lifestyle preferences Family-friendly workplace, flexi hours, degree of control over work, business travel … 4.Job content Influencing/managing others, innovation, variety, predictability, interpersonal contacts … 5.People you want to work with

26. © Career Matters 200826 ISTJ 7% ISFJ 9% INFJ 8% INTJ 4% ISTP 1% ISFP 3% INFP 4% INTP 2% ESTP 1% ESFP 3% ENFP 12% ENTP 3% ESTJ 7% ESFJ 12% ENFJ 16% ENTJ 7% Spiritual depth Strong preacher Youth ministry Administrator Effective leader Pastoral counselor Discerning vocation – Personality style MBTI preference for common pastoral skills % = % of clergy from Alban USA’s data (N=1319)

27. © Career Matters 200827 Motivated skills Skills that you consistently seek to use in your life and work on a regular basis Skills that you are so good at, and enjoy using so much that you would use them for free You ’ re probably using these skills in work, study, play or volunteer settings where you ’ re successful and proud of the results Need to appear on your resume

28. © Career Matters 200828 Burnout skills Skills that you are very good at, but dislike using May be skills that you were required to learn within your family, school or work experience Danger: the more your work requires that you use these skills, the closer you will come to reigning from your work

29. © Career Matters 200829 Developmental skills Skills that you are very motivated to use, but you lack the desired skill level Skills that you may seek training in so that they can be developed and eventually become Motivated Skills

30. © Career Matters 200830 Discerning vocation – Motivated abilities 修訂方案 構想新方案 歸納 總括 分層 分類 藉討論 收集資料 藉研究 收集資料 推動隊工 組織隊工 領導隊工 分配責任 監控流程 表達 新方案 文字 繪圖 說話 以文字、 圖象及說話 影響他人 尋找錯誤或不足 構想實施步驟 演講 寫作訓練 繪圖 說服他人 與他人 辨論 求同存異 大事堅持 小事妥協 建立支援理據 創新及執行