So how do you go about conducting a careers self-assessment?
Supplement your careers self-assessment with feedback from others who know you in a professional context, such as your manager, colleagues, business contacts or a career coach.
Like Sex And The City – acknowledged as a kind of distant forebear in an early scene – Girls centres on the lives of four New Yorkers coping with careers, self-realisation and relationships.
He "reminds me a little bit of Hakeem Olajuwon early in his career," Self told a local reporter.
Each square represents an area of your life such as Career, Self Help and Knowledge, Health, Wealth, Fame and Reputation, Love and Marriage, Children and Creativity, Helpful People and Travel, SELF.
"Oh dear," he laughs, "I guess it's my unfailing eye for missing the boat and career self-destruction.
"The No.1 skill to develop in this day and age is career self-reliance," Ms. Wallbridge said.
There's another career self-help book called "Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office" and Sandberg seems determined to argue the opposite case.
And even if you start a BBC career self-describing as working class, a few years later, outlook and circumstance can alter to a degree that renders the label untenable.
They are, in short, like Mr. Lyons's career: self-effacing, immensely thoughtful, with a broad conception of photography's potential to interact with viewers and with society in general.
Colorful as they are, these earlier chapters excessively echo one another because Mr. Wolff sees one overarching motif throughout the long, eventfully rapacious Murdoch career: self-interest, undiluted by reflection.
