Not Sure If Your Career Actually Fits?
Evaluate your direction using a structured, strengths-based decision framework before making your next move.
Eight modules. Clear decision criteria. A repeatable process you can use throughout your career.
$249.00
The Career Alignment Framework is a self-guided course designed for professionals questioning fit, direction, or change. Instead of chasing titles or reacting to pressure, you’ll use a structured method to assess alignment and move forward deliberately.
CliftonStrengths is used as a decision lens inside the framework, not as a personality label.
What Is CliftonStrengths?
The Method Behind the Framework
The Career Alignment Framework is built on a structured decision process, not inspiration, personality labels, or generic advice.
It moves through a defined sequence designed to reduce guesswork and increase clarity.
1. Clarify What Success Actually Means
Before evaluating roles, you define sustainable success based on how you operate, not external expectations.
2. Interpret Your Strengths as Patterns
You analyze your CliftonStrengths as operating tendencies that shape decisions, tradeoffs, and energy.
3. Define Conditions of Fit
You identify the environments and responsibilities that consistently support your strengths and the ones that create friction.
4. Generate and Test Aligned Directions
You surface viable paths and evaluate them through structured, low-risk testing instead of assumption.
5. Apply Clear Decision Criteria
You compare options against defined alignment metrics rather than reacting to prestige, pressure, or urgency.
6. Design a Practical Transition Strategy
You build a deliberate move-forward plan grounded in timing, constraints, and risk tolerance.
This process is repeatable. As your career evolves, you can return to the framework and reassess with clarity.
Course Outline
Module 1 Foundations: Clarify how you define career success and what alignment actually means for you before evaluating options.
Module 2 Interpreting Your Strengths: Reexamine your CliftonStrengths results as operating patterns rather than labels and identify how they influence decisions and tradeoffs.
Module 3 Defining Fit: Establish the conditions that consistently support your strengths and recognize the patterns that create friction.
Module 4 Expanding Possibilities: Surface viable career directions based on alignment rather than trends or surface-level interest.
Module 5 Testing Before Committing: Learn how to evaluate potential paths through structured, low-risk experiments instead of assumptions.
Module 6 Decision Criteria: Develop a clear framework for comparing options and reducing second-guessing.
Module 7 Transition Strategy: Design a practical plan that accounts for timing, risk tolerance, and real-world constraints.
Module 8 Long-Term Alignment: Create a repeatable process for maintaining alignment as your career evolves.
Final Integration: Consolidate your insights into a clear strengths-based career profile and defined next steps.
Career Pivot Guide: Translate clarity into execution with practical guidance on networking, positioning, and making your move strategically.
What You’ll Learn
Understand How You Actually Work
Learn how to interpret your CliftonStrengths beyond theme descriptions. You’ll identify how your strengths show up in real decisions, patterns, and tradeoffs so you can stop relying on vague self-assessment and start working with evidence.
Redefine Career Success on Your Terms
Clarify what sustainable career success looks like for you based on how you operate, not external expectations. This module helps you identify the conditions that support your strengths and the ones that consistently create friction.
Design a Realistic Transition Strategy
Translate insight into action. You’ll create a practical transition plan that accounts for timing, financial constraints, risk tolerance, and your operating style so your next move is deliberate, not reactive.
Identify and Test Aligned Career Directions
Move beyond job titles and surface-level interest. You’ll learn how to identify viable career directions, design low-risk tests, and gather real information before making commitments that are hard to reverse.
FAQs
Do I need to take the CliftonStrengths assessment before starting?
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Yes. The course is built around interpreting and applying your CliftonStrengths results. You should complete the assessment and have at least your Top 5 themes available before beginning.
Is this course right for me if I’m not planning a full career change?
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Yes. The framework is designed for any professional evaluating fit, direction, or growth. It applies to internal role changes, industry shifts, or refining your current path.
Will this course tell me exactly what job to choose?
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No. It does not prescribe job titles or tell you what path to choose. We believe your career direction and interests are decisions only you can ultimately answer. This framework gives you a structured way to evaluate options, test alignment, and make decisions you can stand behind.
How long does the course take to complete?
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The course is self-paced. Most professionals complete the core modules over several weeks, depending on how deeply they engage with the exercises. The framework is designed to be revisited, not rushed.
About Aligned Work
Hey, I’m Mark
founder and CEO of Aligned Work.
I spent years searching for the right role, feeling capable but consistently misaligned in my work. I often found myself wondering what I actually wanted and why each new opportunity failed to feel like the right fit.
Like many people, I chased titles and opportunities that looked good on paper, assuming clarity would follow. Instead, I kept running into the same pattern. I was capable, but the work never quite fit.
I eventually came across CliftonStrengths, not as a personality test, but as a way to understand how I naturally think, decide, and do my best work. When I stopped treating it as a label and started using it as a decision lens, my career choices became clearer.
Aligned Work grew out of that shift.
The Career Alignment Framework is how I now help others use their strengths to evaluate fit, make better career decisions, and move forward without guesswork or pressure.
This work is about alignment, not perfection. It’s designed to be reused, not outgrown.