5 ChatGPT Prompts To Decide Your Next Career Move (and Level Up) – Forbes
5 ChatGPT prompts to decide your next career move (and level up)
Never stay still. Always be making progress in some way. But if you’ve been doing your work for a while you might be wondering how you reach the next level. You might be wondering what the next level is. Use ChatGPT and these prompts to get an idea of where you are now and where you could go. Get ideas you have overlooked because you’re too busy with BAU.
Here’s where you make your plan and move forward with intention. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through.
To figure out where you’re going, take stock of where you have been. Use this prompt to reflect on the journey that has brought you here, so you can highlight the key moments and main learning points. Figure out what you want to take forward and what you want to leave in the past. Today can mark a new beginning for your life and work if you shed the layers that have been keeping you the same. Open a coaching session with ChatGPT that digs into the past few years.
“Initiate a reflective coaching session focusing on the past few years of my career. Ask questions, one by one, that guide me through a comprehensive review of my journey, highlighting key milestones, major learning experiences, and significant transitions. Help me discern which experiences and skills are crucial for my future growth and which ones I should move beyond. Let’s identify patterns or behaviors that no longer serve my goals, and discuss how today can mark a new beginning by shedding outdated layers and embracing a path of evolution and progress. Do not ask more than one question at a time.”
You have superpowers. Every skill that has created your success to date can be used going forward. The trickiest thing is working out what they are. Listing your skills out is a start, asking friends and colleagues is useful, but getting ChatGPT’s help to uncover new ones might show you strengths you didn’t realize you had. Undertake this exercise to find those unlikely sources of value hidden away in your everyday.
“Initiate a self-discovery session to identify and refine my strengths. Start by asking me to describe, in detail, a specific instance where I achieved something significant or felt particularly proud of my contribution as an entrepreneur. Based on my response, use your understanding to highlight 3 strengths that seem evident in my story. Then, allow me to review and respond to each strength, agreeing or disagreeing. For any strength I disagree with, replace it with a new suggestion based on further discussion, until we finalize a list of 3 strengths that I feel truly represent my comparative advantage and unique value. This exercise aims to uncover hidden talents and reaffirm known strengths, helping me to recognize and leverage my unique capabilities.”
In your wildest dreams, what does the next level of your career entail? If you were to wake up as the happiest, healthiest, wealthiest version of you, what would your day involve? What would you let into your diary, who would be in your life, and what is the work you’d be excited to spend time doing? To create the future, visualize it first. Get clear on who you want to be and then step into their shoes starting right now. Get ChatGPT’s help with this visionary task to feel certain of what could be right around the corner.
“Begin a visionary session to help me vividly visualize my ideal future. Ask me a series of detailed questions, one at a time, to guide me in painting a comprehensive picture of my dream life. Explore various aspects such as my surroundings, appearance, daily activities, the nature of my work, the people around me, and the impact I wish to have. After I respond to each question, use my descriptions to gradually construct an inspiring narrative. Once we’ve covered all aspects, use the detailed description to create an inspirational landscape image, integrating the elements I’ve described, to provide a visual representation of the future I aspire to build.”
Using the prompts so far, you know where you’ve been, where you’re headed, and which of the strengths you already have will take you there. Now get the route. Map out the path so you can translate this dream into a list of actions towards your leveled-up career. Take the future into your hands and get incredibly intentional about what you do now. Think of everything. Get prepared to remove everything that doesn’t fit your plan to make space for the new. Turn the list into a series of daily actions that mean progress is inevitable, as is success.
“Initiate a strategic planning session to create a concrete action plan. The goal is to convert my vision and strengths into an action plan, breaking down my overarching goals into manageable steps over a timeframe of [number of weeks/months], ensuring that each [day/week] contributes meaningfully towards inevitable progress and success in achieving my goals. Ask targeted questions, one at a time, to help me outline the necessary actions, habits, and mindset shifts required to progress towards my dream. After each response, encourage me to consider resources, potential obstacles, and support systems needed before asking the next question. “
If you’re making big requests and making big moves you will often be turned down. That’s a really good thing. If you’re getting rejected each day, it means you’re having the courage to ask the big questions. Keep going, and pretty soon you’ll hear a “yes”. You might only need one open door, big break or off chance to change your entire career. Get ChatGPT’s help preparing for those rejections that will inevitably come your way, so you’re not deterred when they happen in reality.
“Begin a roleplay scenario where I am approaching you, a particularly challenging potential [describe this person, for example a client or future employer in a specific role/industry]. You are known for your high standards and skepticism, frequently turning down proposals and explaining in detail why plans are not feasible or attractive at the present time. Engage in a back and forth discussion with me as I present my plan or request, and provide realistic, tough responses and rejections, one by one. The goal of this exercise is to help me practice resilience, refine my approach, and prepare for real-world rejection, ensuring that I remain undeterred and continue to pursue my goals with determination and strategic adaptability. Do not break character until I say STOP.”
Don’t remain in a stagnant career or business until it’s too late. Don’t miss out on progress and face a future of regret, where you wonder what could have happened if you’d only had the courage. Make your plan with these 5 prompts and the answers they provoke. Assess your journey to date, uncover your unique strengths and paint the picture of where you want to go. Make the plan for your every move and be prepared for the road not to be smooth. A leveled up version of you is closer than you think, now it’s up to you to bring them into reality.
