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and inaccurate. Sometimes tests are more like parlor games than
anything else. Basing your future on tests’ outcomes is like putting
your trust in the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
5. In good career planning, you’re trying, in the first instance, to
broaden your horizons, and only later narrow your options down;
you are not trying to narrow them down from the outset.
Bad career planning looks like this illustration below.
Most computerized tests embody the idea of starting with a wide
range of options, and narrowing them down. So, each time you
answer a question, you narrow down the number of options. For
example, if you say, “I don’t like to work outdoors,” immediately all
outdoor jobs are eliminated from your consideration, etc., etc.
A model of good career planning looks like this illustration
(below), instead.
Good career-choice or career-planning postpones the “narrowing
down,” until it has first broadened your horizons, and expanded the
number of options you are thinking about. For example, you’re in the
newspaper business; but have you ever thought of teaching, or
drawing, or doing fashion? You first expand your mental horizons, to