WorkDecoded resource library
Use these twelve guides to move from a familiar feeling at work to more useful evidence for your next decision. They are practical reflection resources, not a diagnosis or a promise of a specific outcome.
Six questions. A useful starting hypothesis—not a personality label.
A twelve-guide progression
Each guide answers a different question. Begin with what keeps repeating, assess what is true about the current situation, then use that evidence to evaluate what could fit better next.
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Start here: career dissatisfaction
Use this guide hub to distinguish burnout, a workplace mismatch, a role mismatch, and recurring career patterns before deciding your next step.
Read the guide01
Recurring work-fit patterns
Look beyond the next title and examine what may be repeating across roles before you decide your next move.
Read the guide02
New job or new direction
Separate a difficult current workplace from a recurring career-fit pattern before deciding how big your next move needs to be.
Read the guide03
Sort the signals
Use four reflection questions to distinguish situational overload from a recurring career-fit pattern before choosing your next question.
Read the guide04
Recurring dissatisfaction
Start here when the setting changes but a familiar disappointment keeps returning in each new role.
Read the guide05
PATH reflection framework
Use the PATH framework to separate what needs attention in your current conditions from the longer-term question of fit.
Read the guide06
Burnout or career fit
Use a seven-sign comparison to separate current workplace conditions from a recurring career-fit pattern.
Read the guide07
Choosing with evidence
Turn what you learn into clearer criteria for evaluating a role, team, and trade-offs before you commit.
Read the guide08
Many strengths, clearer direction
Separate transferable skill from sustainable fit when several capabilities and directions all look possible.
Read the guide09
Age-stage career decision
Use a repair, reposition, or redirect framework to decide what size of change the evidence supports now.
Read the guide10
Career-path design
Separate a difficult management context from a role-design mismatch before deciding whether to redesign, reposition, or redirect.
Read the guide11
Competence and sustainable fit
Separate ability, recognition, and sustainable fit before you decide whether to redesign your role, reposition your strengths, or make a larger change.
Read the guide12
Work-energy evidence
Notice the tasks, conditions, and trade-offs that give you useful energy, then use that evidence in your next career decision.
Read the guideContinue when you are ready
The free Career Pattern Diagnostic helps you identify a PATH lens to examine first. Career Pattern Diagnosis takes you through the complete self-paced decision system and workbook tools.