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You the listener takes over the podcast. This is our 2nd episode where we take and answer your specific questions. 

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I'm a college senior, how can I find my passion and where do I begin?

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Today or jobseekers radio we answer your questions. We really enjoyed getting questions from you we feel like were engaging with you in ways that we can. Just buy broadcasting as you are listening to our podcast and you are going to the job seekers radio.com to find out more or to leave feedback. We want you to ask more questions because this is probably the favorite activity that we have and it gives you an opportunity to get to be personal. Or selfish selfish selfish or what is selfish if you want your questionnaire. Have a question it's likely somebody else so you're helping someone else so it's not totally selfish there's a little bit of altruism. That brings us to our first question for my college senior how can I find my passion and where do I begin. There are on whole bunch of responses that you will get from that question many of them are true. But they feel because you hear them so often they'll be a little cliché, where I start without us what do you enjoy doing what dreams you energy, that you enjoy or how we want to describe what did the things that get you fired up. I guess where I would start that conversation with someone is to get them to understand that you probably have more than one passion don't limit yourself to just one. Open your mind to anything that brings your enjoyment because that's only the first step of a longer conversation or a longer journey in finding what you enjoy doing. that will earn you a living so sometimes that's not Just one off. I hear this question what's my passion I would encourage you to actually look up the textbook definition of what passionate want to change that word usage or use a different word to describe it. I'm hearing most of the time is what it might go down or what would I be good at doing. I would suggest at a college senior should probably go through some assessments will that be a Myers-Briggs or some of the other assessment like StrengthsFinder or StandOut. Excellent point and not many of these fuck about the break talk about style preferences but also each one of those is going to be measuring something a little bit different.  And so if you take several of them I wouldn't go with too many of the free online assessments because they generally don't go deep enough. But you may not have a budget to actually pay someone to take you through the professional assessment so that certainly understand. For aptitude test or did the testing that they do to try and help place you were in vocational training that sort of thing can be really helpful and they are state subsidized so you don't have to pay for them to stay covers the cost in terms of other resources that I would suggest at a college senior lean into that would be the crew center at university the alumni network that you have access to to help you understand what other people who maybe have your same interest actually did with their degree so that you have a bridge between College Inn and workforce the other thing I would recommend and I really got a lot of value out of this was reading what color is your parachute and this is an a lifelong book in and sad to hear of the death of the author died a couple years ago but they're continuing on Frankie build a legacy through that book that helped millions of people again that's a stylus preference based concept that he developed and it's really quite helpful I remember when I read ...