Do you have the right job?
18 October 2012
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As you know, we will spend a good part of our lives at work. It is therefore important to have the right job.
So we must choose jobs that will suit us and stimulate us throughout our working lives. Using the word "suit" implies that motivations will be personal and different from one person to another. What interests one person does not necessarily interest another. What will fascinate one person will probably despair another. This is normal, because we are all different and what motivates us professionally is based, among other things, on our interests, our skills, our goals and our values.
In your opinion, do you have the right job? At the end of each section, I invite you to answer the questions in order to take stock. Your answers will help you determine if you have the right job for you.
Interests
The interest we have in a field or in something can manifest itself through curiosity. You have probably already found yourself absorbed by a television program, a task, a good book or an interesting conversation. By putting yourself back in this event of interest, you are probably able to remember how you felt and how focused you were. You probably noticed that time flew by, that you were eager to learn more and that you were filled with stimulating energy. Interest helps nourish and stimulate us in life in general.
What are your interests?
Does this job match your interests?
Is it important to you that your job matches your interests?
Skills
We are unique and we have skills, strengths and qualities that we want to highlight. Why not! It is good for our self-esteem and self-confidence to do a job in which we find ourselves good, valued and competent. If you have skills in creation and you hold a job that does not value your creation, maybe you are preventing yourself from being happier at work and getting up in the morning with motivation. Who knows!
What are your skills, strengths and qualities?
Are your skills, strengths and qualities used in your job?
Is it important to you that your skills, strengths and qualities are used in your job?
Goals
A career is built over the entire period of our working lives. Obviously, it would be nice to be the president of a company from the first day of our very first job, but professional reality requires us to have experience, maturity and different skills. Fortunately! That's why a career strategy will allow us to determine the professional steps that will allow us to achieve our goal. One step at a time, the objective materializes.
What are your career goals?
What skills does this career require?
Can this job be part of your career strategy?
Does this job allow you to acquire the skills required for your career? Which ones?
Values
Values define us as individuals and guide us in our actions and behaviors. Values are subjective and are acquired, among other things, through our education, our culture and our group of belonging. At work, we have a set of values that must be respected so that we can be in harmony with ourselves and be efficient for our company. Respect, loyalty, communication, sharing, integrity are examples of values.
For example, if respect is part of your professional values and you hear your colleague using inappropriate language towards another person, chances are you will be irritated and maybe even angry. These reactions are normal for you, because this behavior does not fit within your values. A clash of values is often the cause of misunderstandings and irritants.
What are your values in the workplace?
Are your values respected in your job?
Is it important to you that your values are respected at work?
By answering these questions, you have come to make an assessment of your current job and, in addition, to learn a little more about yourself. By knowing yourself better and determining what is important to you in your career, you will be better able to guide yourself in your job searches and in accepting a position.
Steve Bélanger.
Monster.ch
Posted online October 18, 2012.
So we must choose jobs that will suit us and stimulate us throughout our working lives. Using the word "suit" implies that motivations will be personal and different from one person to another. What interests one person does not necessarily interest another. What will fascinate one person will probably despair another. This is normal, because we are all different and what motivates us professionally is based, among other things, on our interests, our skills, our goals and our values.
In your opinion, do you have the right job? At the end of each section, I invite you to answer the questions in order to take stock. Your answers will help you determine if you have the right job for you.
Interests
The interest we have in a field or in something can manifest itself through curiosity. You have probably already found yourself absorbed by a television program, a task, a good book or an interesting conversation. By putting yourself back in this event of interest, you are probably able to remember how you felt and how focused you were. You probably noticed that time flew by, that you were eager to learn more and that you were filled with stimulating energy. Interest helps nourish and stimulate us in life in general.
What are your interests?
Does this job match your interests?
Is it important to you that your job matches your interests?
Skills
We are unique and we have skills, strengths and qualities that we want to highlight. Why not! It is good for our self-esteem and self-confidence to do a job in which we find ourselves good, valued and competent. If you have skills in creation and you hold a job that does not value your creation, maybe you are preventing yourself from being happier at work and getting up in the morning with motivation. Who knows!
What are your skills, strengths and qualities?
Are your skills, strengths and qualities used in your job?
Is it important to you that your skills, strengths and qualities are used in your job?
Goals
A career is built over the entire period of our working lives. Obviously, it would be nice to be the president of a company from the first day of our very first job, but professional reality requires us to have experience, maturity and different skills. Fortunately! That's why a career strategy will allow us to determine the professional steps that will allow us to achieve our goal. One step at a time, the objective materializes.
What are your career goals?
What skills does this career require?
Can this job be part of your career strategy?
Does this job allow you to acquire the skills required for your career? Which ones?
Values
Values define us as individuals and guide us in our actions and behaviors. Values are subjective and are acquired, among other things, through our education, our culture and our group of belonging. At work, we have a set of values that must be respected so that we can be in harmony with ourselves and be efficient for our company. Respect, loyalty, communication, sharing, integrity are examples of values.
For example, if respect is part of your professional values and you hear your colleague using inappropriate language towards another person, chances are you will be irritated and maybe even angry. These reactions are normal for you, because this behavior does not fit within your values. A clash of values is often the cause of misunderstandings and irritants.
What are your values in the workplace?
Are your values respected in your job?
Is it important to you that your values are respected at work?
By answering these questions, you have come to make an assessment of your current job and, in addition, to learn a little more about yourself. By knowing yourself better and determining what is important to you in your career, you will be better able to guide yourself in your job searches and in accepting a position.
Steve Bélanger.
Monster.ch
Posted online October 18, 2012.
