Are You Faced With A Career Crisis? Be, rest assured that you are not the only one to be faced with a crisis in one’s career. We regularly get requests from people at all walks of life to enable them to overcome their career challenge. Here are some valuable thoughts to enable you to learn to deal with the crisis effectively. Careers are choices made based on your potential to succeed in what you are good at. It also takes into account your capability and competence to perform well in certain tasks and situations. What normally gets ignored is the willingness to perform. The ‘willingness’ factor is the key reason for why people feel bored, unhappy, frustrated and disinterested. Please go through the list of common mistakes people make while choosing a career: 1. They look for a job to get started without looking for a long term career 2. They get into jobs based on parental or peer pressure 3. They lack clarity in what they are looking for – ‘any job will do’ kinds 4. They continue the mistake of looking for jobs based on their qualification even if they do not like their field of study 5. They only look for jobs where they can get higher monetary gain even at the cost of ‘lack of job satisfaction’ 6. They go by what is available rather than what they are good at. 7. They get into jobs just because of someone’s recommendation or influence with long term plan 8. They pick jobs only because it is closer home or within the same city. If you must find success in your career you must have the courage to choose the one based on two key factors – 1. What you love to do and 2. What you are extremely good at. Now if you closely examine, you will notice that both these factors actually draw inspiration from your Strengths and never from your weaknesses. So take time to strategise your career by finding your true hidden strengths and capabilities. But you need to be objective and scientific in the whole process. You derive your strengths based on your hereditary characteristics as well upbringing or environmental influences that help shape your capabilities and competency. Each of these influences is like different windows of life and they combine to produce your unique personality. You need to measure or map each of these catalysts and work on a career strategy to live your life to its fullest. You will be on fast track in your career enjoying utmost job satisfaction, career growth and continued progress. sree@oscarmurphy oscarmurphy
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:44:13 +0000
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