Career Frameworks

Most career tests name a type. At mid-career the harder question is what to do with the experience you already have, and where it can credibly point next. Here's what personality tests miss and how the options compare.

After years coaching mid-career professionals through transitions, I kept seeing the same wall: the search stalls because the person has outgrown the version of themselves that knew what to look for. Today I'm launching Remix Career - the methodology behind those sessions, available to anyone in one sitting.

Ikigai is usually taught as a four-circle puzzle to solve. At mid-career, the useful version is the opposite: noticing which circles have gone quiet, and what the silence is costing you.

A career archetype is a pattern that describes how you naturally create value at work — not what you do, but the underlying shape of what drives you. Here's the 16-archetype framework behind the Remix Career analysis.