You may get career advice from your friends, colleagues, and even advisors, but you have never experienced anything like the Sequence VITAE Exercise. It is the revolutionary new career development process and tool that is sweeping the Nation. Five years in development, and based on 20 years of experience, it has been created by the team at Sequence and tested and delivered with in-person interactions to over 5,000 professionals. It is now available online here to you and through our certified network of professionals.
It is not just powerful tips/tricks and insightful guides to building your resume and career materials, but tools to help you to assess your value and truly empower your professional efforts on a path to lifelong success. It also gives you in depth understanding into the evolving workplace and way job searching and hiring is conducted. This knowledge, paired with invaluable advice and experience, is what makes it unlike anything currently available to career minded professionals who wish to take control of their future.
The Sequence VITAE Exercise is our true, time-tested personal assessment process and development tool we believe will greatly aid and empower you in your career.
Vitae in Latin literally means “life.”
Our lives are a series of actions and events traced in order by time. It’s a Sequence. It’s a particular order in which related acts and events follow each other.
Every major company and organization we know has branding. Coca-Cola and McDonald’s have distinctive brands. So do Apple, Google, Louis Vuitton, and even car makers like GM and Toyota. These brands are an expression of value and organizations strive to make them known in less abstract but more conceptual ways.
Just as branding applies to organizations, products, and services, it also applies to you as an individual in today’s professional environment.
Everyone has a story. It’s the account of who you are. Your story is unique to you and sets you apart from all others. It’s the history of your life: your career journey. It reflects your experience, accomplishments, and what you have learned along the way.
Your story is communicated through a variety of channels, both verbally and written, including through your resume, online profile, cover letter and other career marketing materials.
Take inventory of your brand. What do you need to effectively market yourself? Explore the assorted professional brand marketing materials associated with successful career planning, management, and job search efforts. Walk through the process of performing an inventory, assembling the information, and conceptualizing the groundwork for establishing the materials that will enable you to build and polish your brand.
I have to say, you've changed my life.
Michael B.
In just two weeks I was offered two jobs. One at another company and one internal in a different department at my current company. I chose the internal and was paid 15% more.
Anne K.
I wish someone would have taught me what you have taught in college. There is no resource like this. I was completely unprepared for job seeking in the workforce. This VITAE exercise has already given me the knowledge to do what I need to do to get my career on track.
Daryian R.
This showed me everything I have been doing wrong in my job search. This isn't just a tool. It branded me and empowered my career. Just wish I would have had this sooner.
Wayne H.
The Sequence VITAE Exercise is our true, time-tested personal assessment process and development tool we believe will greatly aid and empower you in your career.
VALUE
Examine and assess your value
INVENTORY
Take inventory of your brand
TARGET
Take aim of where you want to go and people you want to know, determine how you will get there, and target those destinations and individuals
ACHIEVE
Take action and execute your plan with focus and vigor
EVOLVE
Just as our lives evolve, so do our careers
You need no previous education or specialized knowledge. Each exercise is meant to provide insights and knowledge as a foundation for helping you further develop your professional career materials and brand. It includes innovative exercises and assessments. It simply requires an investment of time and energy, but all the tools are readily available for your use.
The complete VITAE Exercise contains five different sections. Because so many individuals specifically ask about Career Materials Development (Resumes, Cover Letters, Thank You Letters, etc.), we have broken that best selling section into a Mini-Book of its own. Thousands of individuals have already utilized the principals and ideas in that Mini-Book alone. Each section relates to a different Letter and Subject. V - Value, I - Inventory, A - Achieve, T - Target and E - Evolve. Together each of these walks you through a continuous process of self assessment, branding, compelling story and professional development. The entire VITATE Exercise is laid out graphically and visually. You might liken it more to a magazine or brochure than other more traditional types of simple career books or resources. It includes text, call outs, images/illustrations and interactive activities. It also has assessments, testing and questions. It should be unlike anything you have utilized for career development before.
Yes. The VITAE Exercise empowers you to go about building and creating these materials yourself, but we also have an entire Career Services Division (www.sequenceresumes.com) that can help you write and develop those documents. If you purchase the I - INVENTORY Mini-Book or Full VITAE Exercise you get a discount on resume writing and career services. If you attend a Seminar or Purchased One-on-One Training or Career Coaching from a VITAE Certified Professional this material development is included with your purchase. You might also find one of our professionals at a career fair, trade conference or traveling venue. They are often happy to give you free initial assistance. Just mention you are part of the VITAE revolution. Check where we will be next.
Your career can’t be left to chance. Yet, almost all are. That’s something probably no one ever told you when you graduated school, when you took your first job, or even now years later when you speak with your colleagues. The truth is, most people stumble through their careers with no true target or purpose. Their course of career life (VITAE) is often rudderless: simply drifting toward success or hardship once they take up their chosen occupation. Yes, most careers are left to chance.
Inside the full VITAE BOOK
VITAE in Latin literally means “life.”
Our lives are a series of actions and events traced in order by time. It’s a sequence. It’s a particular order in which related acts and events follow each other. Thus, our Sequence VITAE Exercise is a powerful five-step orderly process designed to help you define your Value, Target your goals, take Inventory, establish, build, polish, and market your career materials and professional brand. We have developed a series of activities to Achieve these aims and to create your compelling story which lies at the center of all of your plans, dreams, and aspirations. We will then help you express that value and brand with your MVP (My Value Proposition) Statement and consistently Evolve it throughout your career.
VALUE
Examine and assess your value. Take a self-assessment examination and inventory of your strengths and weaknesses. What is your value, worth, importance, and usefulness? Define your knowledge, aptitude, experience, skill set, expertise, competencies, specialties, proficiencies, talents, gifts, key attributes and characteristics, abilities, capacity, capabilities, and “ go to” purpose. Compare these to your chosen occupation to get a greater insight into your profession and as a foundation for the path of expressing who you are.
INVENTORY
Take inventory of your brand. What do you need to effectively market yourself? Explore the assorted professional brand marketing materials associated with successful career planning, management, and job search efforts. Walk through the process of performing an inventory, assembling the information, and conceptualizing the groundwork for establishing the materials that will enable you to build and polish your brand.
TARGET
Take aim of where you want to go and people you want to know, determine how you will get there, and target those individuals and destinations. Chart a plan of action. Summarize your goal(s), objectives, plan, timeline/schedule, and start the process of thinking about your future. This is targeting your career as a foundation for developing your compelling story, building your MVP (My Value Proposition) and creating a focused brand.
ACHIEVE
Take action and execute your plan with focus and vigor. This is the process of constructing, marketing and expressing your brand. You have developed a concrete vision and mission statement, goals and objectives, and a career timeline and professional schedule. And of course, took inventory and put your professional brand marketing materials in order. It’s time now to develop your compelling story. Everyone has a story. It’s the account of who you are. Your story is unique to you and sets you apart from all others. It’s the history of your life: your career journey. It reflects your experience, accomplishments, and what you have learned along the way. Once you have written your compelling story, you will develop it into your MVP (My Value Proposition) Statement for expression to the world. Your MVP Statement is the key to verbally communicating your story and value proposition and adaptable for use in every circumstance and situation in one form or another. It’s three-dimensional and the essential tool used for expressing your value as a powerful professional brand.
EVOLVE
Just as our lives evolve, so do our careers. The path in which our career moves along is often commonly referred to as career development. Our career evolution is a lifelong process of change and adaptation to new environments, situations, and circumstances; luck (both good and bad); unexpected opportunities as well as setbacks; increased awareness, knowledge, and education; and in balance or harmony with personal life.
Career development is “...the total constellation of psychological, sociological, educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine to influence the nature and significance of work in the total lifespan of any given individual,” 9 as once defined by National Career Development Association. This powerful statement encompasses and acknowledges the length of lifelong professional progression and factors impacting each of our careers.
Our career evolution is complex and in order to understand where we are headed we need to look back to see where we have been. What has evolved, or changed, since you first put forth your vision and mission statement; goals and objectives; dreams and aspirations? Are you progressing? What’s working and not working? This is an introspective and ongoing look at your professional evolution, particularly as it relates to your career plan.
VALUE
Examine and assess your value. Take a self-assessment examination and inventory of your strengths and weaknesses. What is your value, worth, importance, and usefulness? Define your knowledge, aptitude, experience, skill set, expertise, competencies, specialties, proficiencies, talents, gifts, key attributes and characteristics, abilities, capacity, capabilities, and “ go to” purpose. Compare these to your chosen occupation to get a greater insight into your profession and as a foundation for the path of expressing who you are.
INVENTORY
Take inventory of your brand. What do you need to effectively market yourself? Explore the assorted professional brand marketing materials associated with successful career planning, management, and job search efforts. Walk through the process of performing an inventory, assembling the information, and conceptualizing the groundwork for establishing the materials that will enable you to build and polish your brand.
TARGET
Take aim of where you want to go and people you want to know, determine how you will get there, and target those individuals and destinations. Chart a plan of action. Summarize your goal(s), objectives, plan, timeline/schedule, and start the process of thinking about your future. This is targeting your career as a foundation for developing your compelling story, building your MVP (My Value Proposition) and creating a focused brand.
ACHIEVE
Take action and execute your plan with focus and vigor. This is the process of constructing, marketing and expressing your brand. You have developed a concrete vision and mission statement, goals and objectives, and a career timeline and professional schedule. And of course, took inventory and put your professional brand marketing materials in order. It’s time now to develop your compelling story. Everyone has a story. It’s the account of who you are. Your story is unique to you and sets you apart from all others. It’s the history of your life: your career journey. It reflects your experience, accomplishments, and what you have learned along the way. Once you have written your compelling story, you will develop it into your MVP (My Value Proposition) Statement for expression to the world. Your MVP Statement is the key to verbally communicating your story and value proposition and adaptable for use in every circumstance and situation in one form or another. It’s three-dimensional and the essential tool used for expressing your value as a powerful professional brand.
EVOLVE
Just as our lives evolve, so do our careers. The path in which our career moves along is often commonly referred to as career development. Our career evolution is a lifelong process of change and adaptation to new environments, situations, and circumstances; luck (both good and bad); unexpected opportunities as well as setbacks; increased awareness, knowledge, and education; and in balance or harmony with personal life.
Career development is “...the total constellation of psychological, sociological, educational, physical, economic, and chance factors that combine to influence the nature and significance of work in the total lifespan of any given individual,” 9 as once defined by National Career Development Association. This powerful statement encompasses and acknowledges the length of lifelong professional progression and factors impacting each of our careers.
Our career evolution is complex and in order to understand where we are headed we need to look back to see where we have been. What has evolved, or changed, since you first put forth your vision and mission statement; goals and objectives; dreams and aspirations? Are you progressing? What’s working and not working? This is an introspective and ongoing look at your professional evolution, particularly as it relates to your career plan.
