246 PART 2 Acquiring Training and Developing Human Resources Figure 8.4 Sample Self Assessment Exercise Step 1: Where am I? Examine current position of life and career Think about your life from past and present to the future. Draw a timeline to represent important events Step 4: An ideal year in the future Identity resources needed. Consider a one-year period in the future, Answer these questions: . If you had unlimited resources, what would you do? What would the ideal environment look like? Does the ideal environment match Step 3? Step 2: Who am I? Examine different roles, Using 3* * 5 cards, write down one answer per card to the question "Who am I? Step 5: An ideal job Create current goal In the present think about an ideal job for you with your available resources. Describe your role, resources, and type of training or education needed, Step 3: Where would I like to be, and what would I like to happen? Begin setting goals Consider your life from present to future Write an autobiography answering these questions: What do you want to have accomplished? . What milestones do you want to achieve? . What do you want to be remembered for? Step 6: Career by objective inventory Summarize current situation What gets you excited each day? What do you do well? What are you known for? What do you need to achieve your goals? What could interfere with reaching your goal? What should you do now to move toward reaching your goals? What is your long-term career objective? Source Based on 1 E McMahon and S. Meman "Career Development in The ASTD Training and Devels (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996), pp 679-697 Reproduced with permission