6 Ways to Pinpoint Your Perfect Career
ave you ever felt stuck in every day until you get the
your career? Employee answer you seek.
stress and burn out can
account for a lot of 2. Ask 3 close friends -
dissatisfaction in your life. Sometimes our friends know us
After all, you are at work some 8 better than ourselves. While
hours a day or more. That s 1/3 meeting with one of your friends,
of your day if you don t count mention you are at a crossroads
sleep. That s a long time to be in your life and career. Ask what
dissatisfied. they think you d enjoy doing. You
might be surprised at how easily
If you feel stuck, here are 6 they can zero in to your
great ways to find your ideal strengths and abilities and
career: report a perfect job area.
1. Brainstorm on a sheet of
paper - I ve talked about this 3. Ask your boss and coworkers -
before and it s a strategy I use much like your friends in the
all the time. Take a pad of paper example above, your boss and
and write down at the top your coworkers most likely see you in
objective in question form. Then, a way you do not see yourself. In
simply list out 20 answers to fact, they are likely most
your question. For example, you familiar with your strengths and
could write What should I be weaknesses in the work
doing with my time and life? environment. Compile all the
Then stay seated for a half hour answers you get from them and see
to an hour coming up with answers if there are any common threads
to that question. The key to this you can explore.
exercise is coming up with 20
answers - don t quit until you 4. Call a headhunter - If you are
have 20 answers. You can repeat searching in your career, it s
likely you have a resume. you will likely see some new
Sometimes you can catch a exciting areas to explore in your
headhunter or recruiter during life.
their slow times and meet with
them to pick through what you 6. Keep a journal - Do you keep a
might be good at. I ve done this journal? If so, read through,
at different times in my life and looking for common threads in
the people seem open to talking your writing. Keep your eyes
with people. After all, if you peeled for trends and activities
don t get paid, they don t you like as well as don t like.
either. The ideas I get are In fact, finding examples of what
usually good. you don t like and what
frustrates you is almost as
5. Take a career assessment test important as finding what you do
- There are several sites on the like. For example, if you hate an
Internet you might be able to overwhelming boss, you d probably
take one of these tests for a like a self-directed position. If
fee. But using my headhunter you hate nosy coworkers you d
tip above, many headhunters have probably prefer your own office.
this software and don t mind you
taking the test in their office. Discovering what you really want
I ve taken these tests two times to do with your life is the most
in my life and they usually take important decision you can make.
an hour or two, but they are We spend 1/3 or more of our lives
thorough. They ask you to answer at work. So figuring out the
a series of questions about what right career is important to
you are good at, what you like to keeping that 1/3 of our lives
do, what you prefer doing over happy and productive.
what you don t. If you take one,
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Brad Isaac is the creator of Achieve-IT! Goal Setting software for Pocket PC. You can get more of his self-development articles at the Achieve-IT! blog
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