3 Short Steps for choosing the "right" JOB
Discover and NAME your own internal strengths and values, CLAIM them and AIM them to find a job that you excel in and feel is right for you.
Name it: What are personal strengths and values?
Strengths are your very own unique combination of talents, knowledge and skills. You can use your strengths to maximize your potential and position yourself to do what you do best everyday. People who are able to use their talents and abilities naturally excel. People who use their strengths everyday are 6 X more likely to be engaged on the job. (Statistical information taken from Gallup Strengths Center
Personal values guide our decision making. Your values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live and work. They help you determine your priorities and they are probably the measures you use to tell if your life is turning out the way you want it to. When the things that you do and the way you behave match your values, life is usually good – you're satisfied. But when things don’t align with your values that’s when things feel wrong. For example if you value family, but work a 70 hour week in your job you will feel internal stress and conflict. When you’re aware of your values you can make decisions about how to live your life and are able to answer questions like;
1) What job should I pursue?
2) Should I accept this promotion?
3) Should I start my own business?
A combination of strengths and values coupled with the ideal task or job can create "flow"* – something you definitely want to aim to accomplish. Flow is when a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. You don't notice the time it took to do the task you set yourself.
Now your task is to NAME your top 5 Strengths. Make a list of the top 5 things you excel in professionally. Then NAME the top 5 Values according the following guiding question:
Identify times you were fulfilled, happy, found meaning and satisfied?
What values were present that made you fulfilled and satisfied?
Claim it: Claim and internalizing your unique strengths and values. An exercise for you to do that will help you internalize and claim your strengths and values on the way to aiming for the right job. Draw a 90 degree right angle where on one side has a list of all your strengths and the other side has a list of all your values. Then open the web and look for job descriptions that align your strengths and your values with the job descriptions. Plot the title of the jobs between the two sides of the right angle and look to see if new directions have opened up for you in your job search.
Aim it: Harnessing your strengths and values by aiming them to set up job networking meetings, re-writing your C.V. according to new job opportunities, sending your C.V to the right places. Start focusing on what you really want. You'll see that because of these realizations and new focus you will feel more determined to seek out the "right" job for you because you know what you're good at and what you fundamentally believe is the right step forward for you.
* Flow - A concept proposed by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, from the area of positive psychology.
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