Provide the structure of the map
This activity involves working individually and then sharing the results with the group. Provide a copy to each learner with the structure of a career mind map. The career mind maps can be provided on worksheets or they can be shared via a map editor software online.

Essential areas of investigation
Explain to the learners the importance they need to give when choosing a career. At the centre of the map there can be the learner name, gender, age or even just “me”; then, there will be different branches that depart from the central concept (from me).
To have a successful career, they must identify six essential things.
1. What we know how to do: what skills do we have;
2. what we like to do: which are our interests and hobbies;
3. how we want to get what we want: this means, which are our moral values;
4. what we have learned so far: what education we have (type, degree);
5. what we have experienced so far: it means the extracurricular activities we have done;
6. where we want to reach: the goal that we have identified for our life.
Their intersection will result in what career they should choose.

Design and sharing of the map
The task: each learner has 15-20 minutes to make a mind map of his/her career, afterwards they share their findings with the group.

Deeper reflection and comparison
It is not easy for learners to choose a career that goes in parallel to what they have written in the six concepts of the map, because they might retain a previous idea different from that they have reflected upon by means of the map. Therefore, spend 10-15 minutes to explain how to reflect properly on these ideas and then ask the learners to repeat the career mind map. A final discussion on the differences between the two maps is suggested.