Learn the two success factors that will help you find a career job by beginning your career search in the right place.
Do you have a job you love or is it one of those that “just pays the bills?”
Wouldn’t it be great to have work that provides some satisfaction and fulfillment to you as a person? Whether you’re out of work and looking, or employed but hate the job, your goal in life should be to find work that not only feeds and clothes, but nourishes your soul as well.
Why bother? Research shows that people whose work feels like a calling or vocation-well aligned with life purpose-are healthier, happier, and more productive. Work that is a calling feels like it simultaneously contributes to humanity and aligns with an individual’s purpose in life.
Success Factors in Career Jobs
The best careers advice may seem a bit strange: don’t start looking for available jobs or researching the best paying jobs. Instead, start your career search with some soul searching. Think of yourself as a business. What do you have to offer? What differentiates you from others?
Start your career search with an inward search for self understanding. What do you love to do? What are you especially good at? Everyone has special skills and abilities, often called personal strengths. What are yours?
Find Life Purpose – a Career Success Factor
Self understanding is paramount in launching your career search. Understanding who you are as a person begins with finding your life purpose. Find Life Purpose provides more information and tips to help you find life purpose.
Work that maximizes your ability to be a person who is well aligned with life purpose will be work that is satisfying and fulfilling. And work aligned with your purpose is work that you’ll do exceptionally well - a typical component of well-paid work.
The Career Success Factor of Personal Strengths
The second career success factor that is important is finding work that utilizes you at your best. Work which utilizes your best skills and abilities-your personal strengths-is work that you’ll love doing. And this is also work that you’ll do exceptionally well, again very likely to be well-paying.
article and article provide more information and specific tips to help you identify your core personal strengths, often called signature strengths.
Careers Advice
Set yourself up to succeed in your career search by first gaining good understanding of your life purpose and your personal strengths. These are two success factors that are known to characterize people with successful careers.
How does this self knowledge help you to actually get a career job-work that feels more like a calling or vocation?
Attraction and Energy.
With a clear understanding of who you are and your differentiating strengths, you’ll be clear about the characteristics of work you’re seeking. Not specific jobs so much, as jobs that have the characteristics which align closely with your purpose and strengths.
This clarity of self knowledge will begin attracting opportunities to you. You’ll see opportunities you would have missed before, and you’ll pass up jobs that are not well aligned with who you are.
When you have interviews you’ll have an energy that sets you apart. Your interviewer will notice your passion and strengths, and be more likely to see you as a great candidate.
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