Real Work,
Real Soon.
Discover the power of purpose aligned career development. We help career advisors and their clients create personalized, deeply meaningful careers through self-discovery and strategic planning. As a result, clients get faster employment in the short term and sky-high levels of fulfillment in the long run.
(Career Professionals of Canada).
to us motivated, focussed and ready to get to work!”
Purposeful
Our programs are built on the belief that everyone has a unique contribution to offer and a deep, innate desire to deliver that contribution.
Practical
Whether you’re job hunting, a career advisor, or a business leader, our proven methods—refined over decades—help you find purpose and launch meaningful careers quickly.
Proven
Independent studies have shown our programs to be up to 2-3 times as effective as traditional career development programs in helping individuals attain and retain work
Six modules to help clients get from stuck to thriving
MODULE 1: TAKE CHARGE
Develop clarity on why you are making the decisions you are currently making and how to make that process more effective for you. Replace the negative and unconscious payoffs you are getting for your choices with positive and conscious ones.
MODULE 2: GET UNSTUCK
Use your newly developed approach to decision making to identify the labels, rigidities and limiting beliefs you have placed on yourself in order to get unstuck. Get tools to increase your self-awareness, self-esteem and self-confidence every single day.
MODULE 3: GET REAL
Now that you removed the rigidities and limiting beliefs you can re-connect with the essence of who you really are and describe that in a Personal Mission Statement. Decide upon the person you will be from this point forward. It is important to know who you are before deciding what you will do.
MODULE 4: DEFINE YOUR WORK PURPOSE
Now that you have a senseof the person you want to be, it’s time to decide upon the contribution you will make to improve your world. Declare the purpose of your work before deciding upon the career(s) that will deliver that purpose.
MODULE 5: PLANNING PART 1 – CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Now develop that Work Purpose into a career path by identifying jobs, training, schooling, etc, that will assist you in delivering your work purpose.
MODULE 6: PLANNING PART 2 – STRATEGIC PLANNING
Apply a strategical approach to the purpose you have developed. Write a business plan for yourself that will provide you with a fulfilling, impactful life.
approach manages to do and that is tap directly into a person’s core motivation for work, finding
personal meaning and sense of purpose. Profound and creative!”
Why it works
A Modern Approach to A Modern
Market
We incorporate the traditional tools that work, without the mindset that doesn’t
| Traditional Career Planning | Working On Purpose | |
|---|---|---|
| Philosophical Origin | Industrial Era Designed around the industrial-era needs of large hierarchical organizations | Information Age Designed around the modern reality of dynamic, interconnected, and rapidly changing work environments |
| Career Path | Linear Career Assumes a predictable career progression (education → job → promotions) | Non-linear Career Knows that careers are multifaceted and contain uncertainty. Embraces diverse trajectories, lateral moves, and career changes |
| Goal Setting | Rigid, Long-Term Goals Emphasizes fixed, long-term milestones (like promotions or job titles) that in today’s landscape can result in missed opportunities | Adaptable Goal Setting Promotes adaptable long-term goals that can be revised as circumstances change and self-knowledge increases |
| Job Market | Predictable Job Markets Relies on stable, established industries and roles | Exploration of Emerging Fields Embraces evolving markets and encourages discovery of new industries and future roles |
| Skills | Emphasis on Formal and Technical Skills Prioritizes hard skills and formal qualifications, often creating barriers to entry and debt burdens | Emphasis on Applicable Skills Focuses on building soft and technical skills that are directly relevant to the job at hand, at the right time |
| Personalization | One-Size-Fits-All Applies generic advice and strategies to all individuals | Personalized Career Strategies Guides individuals to identify the contribution they want to make in the world and helps them create highly personalized plans to deliver their contribution |
| Educational Approach | Neglects Continuous Learning Assumes education ends after formal schooling or training | Embraces Lifelong Learning Prepares individuals to embrace ongoing education and skill acquisition throughout their career |
| Inclusivity | Defines Narrow Set of Qualifications Sets rigid definitions of who is able to perform what work, based on narrowly defined metrics | Defines Wider Range of Access Embraces evolving markets and encourages discovery of new industries and future roles |
Programs
Same Core Content, Unique
Delivery Options That Work For
You
For Individuals
Help empower clients through workshops and online learning
For Career Professionals
Learn to facilitate Working On Purpose in your own organization
For Business Leaders
Build a rock solid culture by aligning employee purpose with company goals
Don’t take our word for it
Hear from some of our amazing program graduates who are working on purpose
Meet the guide
In 1987, Steve Miller was struggling with many of the same issues that career advisors are still struggling with today: low client engagement, pressure to meet rapid placement outcomes, huge caseloads, and a significant lack of long-term retention.
Fearing outcome-based funding cuts and feeling disappointed by the apparent lack of impact he was making in his client’s lives, Steve decided to figure out what was missing. Inspired by Joseph Cambell’s Hero Journey, Steve undertook his own 7 year odyssey of research and collaboration, and created a program that has now helped thousands of individuals launch meaningful careers.
Today, Steve continues to fulfill his own work purpose by guiding job seekers, career agencies, and diverse organizations through their own self-discovery and strategic planning journeys. He also works with his business partner Silviu (founder of The Aha! Moment) to expand their reach to more people who need it, most recently through the new self-paced version of Working On Purpose, Career Hero.
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We Work!
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