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Implicit Career Search

ICS: the key to finding meaning in your work

Implicit Career Search® (in French, Recherche de Carrière Implicite) is an innovative method designed to help people clearly define the purpose of their work and guide them towards a successful, fulfilling working life. Stemming from The Human Element® approach, ICS aims to build a meaningful career plan that deeply resonates with each person's identity.

Unlike many classic approaches that focus on skills and interests, ICS takes a more introspective path. It starts from the fundamental question: "Who am I, really?". The process helps explore your behavioural preferences, understand your defence mechanisms and identify your fears. Reconnecting with their essence, participants discover what truly motivates them and what drives them deeply.

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Implicit Career Search

We all have the implicit, deep desire for our work to bring something unique to the community.

Steve MILLER,
creator of the ICS approach, career counsellor

Potential revealed

Develop your potential with Implicit Career Search

The goal of ICS is to help everyone clarify their vision of life and consider how to contribute to the world through their unique essence. Once this understanding is gained, it becomes possible to translate this essence into a career plan and concrete professional goals. This means reflecting on the skills already acquired and those worth acquiring to carry out the plan. In short, Implicit Career Search® means starting from who you are to define what you do.

No prerequisites are required for this training, making the process accessible to all. A sincere willingness to get personally involved is, however, essential to get the most out of it.

What's more, the ICS skills assessment can be funded through your Compte Personnel de Formation (CPF), whether you choose a group seminar or individual support.

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Who it is for

Who is the Implicit Career Search approach for?

Professionals

Professionals looking for coherence between who they are and their work, questioning their current path and wishing to adjust it to better match their values and aspirations.

People in career transition

People in career transition, after a professional break or wishing to change direction, who want a fresh start and to restore harmony between their personal and professional identity.

Young people

Young people, such as secondary school and university students, looking for direction in their studies or career and exploring their options to make informed decisions about their future.

Soon-to-be retirees

Soon-to-be retirees who want to give meaning to their new life and envision fulfilling, satisfying projects after their active career.

General objectives of the ICS training

  • Challenge your own limiting ideas
  • Identify your main professional and personal directions
  • Draw up your professional development plan
  • Develop a viable career path
  • Explore your abilities and deepest wishes
  • Implement your job search action plan

The group seminar: benefit from the power of the group

The Implicit Career Search® group seminar focuses on rediscovering yourself and building a meaningful career plan.

In a world where many people lack direction and look for meaning in their careers, this seminar meets a crucial need. By bringing together a small group of participants, it fosters rich exchanges and lets everyone benefit from others' experiences and perspectives. This creates a collaborative dynamic that stimulates creativity and commitment, making the discovery process more impactful than individual sessions.

Practical details

  • Duration: 4-day seminar (24 hours), split into two 2-day sessions.
  • Follow-up: 4 hours of individual follow-up to support putting the plans into practice.
  • Project presentation: 4 hours in which each participant presents their career plan to the group, with constructive feedback.
  • Group size: 3 to 8 participants for optimal interaction.
  • Format: preferably on site, but can be adapted to remote if necessary.
  • Goal: help each participant define a career plan that resonates with their deep identity and aspirations.

Develop an authentic career plan

The Implicit Career Search® individual seminar offers personalised support, letting each participant dive deep into self-understanding. Through a 24-hour programme, participants explore their essence, their preferences and their unique contribution to the working world. This introspective process is essential to build an authentic career plan aligned with personal values. While this seminar is designed to meet individual needs specifically, the absence of group exchanges may limit the variety of perspectives and feedback, a drawback compared with group seminars.

Practical details

  • Duration: 24 hours of individual support
  • Format: on site or remote, as the participant prefers.
  • Support: personalised to meet each individual's specific needs.
  • Goal: help you know yourself better, understand your unique contribution and build a coherent career plan and action plan.
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Training content

Professional development and career planning

This training helps define a professional goal and create a clear career plan.

  • Part I: Professional goal statement

    Participants reassess their career choices and professional behaviours to clarify their inner motivations and define a personal mission.

  • Part II: Formalising the career plan

    They then build a structured career plan with precise steps and a long-term vision, presented to the group for constructive feedback.

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Set up the conditions for Implicit Career Search: professional choice, openness and listening. Take stock of your experience and professional choices so far.

Bring out the constants of your path. Reflect on it through the lens of Choice in Implicit Career Search. Take responsibility for your career choices so far, in your working life within companies and/or in recruitment.

Define the dimensions of behaviour present in professional interactions and their effects on involvement, empowerment and trust. Identify your own.

Identify any rigidities, prejudices and favoured mechanisms that cost you the objectivity a career search needs. Draw up a concrete, specific action plan to change professional relationships in the direction you want.

Where our inner motivations to develop our potential come from. Understand how a lack of self-confidence affects professional relationships.

Consequences of low and high self-esteem in working life.

What contribution do I intend to offer through my work? Choose a symbol (Essence) of your deepest desire, then let your Personal Mission statement emerge through several proposed investigations. Define "What person do I want to be? What role do I want to play in society?". Describe your professional and social life intention based on the process started (Essence). Formally write down your professional mission statement.

Retrace your past professional lifeline: "How have you evolved so far?"

Map your future lifeline through a number of activities to make sense of it: "What do you intend to contribute to through your work?"

Define your Professional Life Goal, starting with a general description and gradually moving to a specific one.

Make the career development spectrum your own. Receive feedback from the other group members on the Craftsman-phase skills to develop in your plan, the Manager-phase resources and solving the risk-taking problems of the Leader phase. Write a first draft of your Career Development Profile.

Make the Career Development Profile (CDP) protocol your own. Formalise the full Career Plan, including your Career Vision, your Professional Life Goal and the development phases to get there. Present the outline of this plan individually in a sub-group and receive constructive feedback.

Present the outline of your career plan individually to the group. This exchange provides personalised follow-up, with constructive feedback suited to each person's goals. The advice given aims to refine the career plan according to individual needs and professional ambitions.

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