Here’s a brilliant video by Scott Dinsmore where he highlights some important points when finding the right job for yourself:
2 Keys in Finding The Right Job
SELF-AWARENESS
Scott highlights 3 things about people who are happy and successful in their careers:
- Unique Strengths – These people are operating in their area of strengths. Here he recommends StrengthsFinder 2.0 for identifying your strengths.
- Values – Be aware of your framework/hierarchy for decision-making.
- Experience – Notice what you love, hate, are good at, are terrible at.
I would like to add that another good tool for finding the right job for you is the Strong Interest Inventory (SII) which allows you to
- identify what your motivators are based on the RIASEC model by John Holland,
- identify areas of interest,
- suggest suitable occupations and
- highlights your personal styles.
Naturally, the tool isn’t prescriptive. This means that when you see “florist” turning up as an occupation for you, it doesn’t mean you should quit your current job and become one. It does mean that you should have someone who is certified to help you make sense of the tool and contextualize it to your own personal needs.
It is important to be a “self-expert” – an expert of knowing yourself – which is a compass for helping you identify the direction to take.
How would you rate your own level of self-awareness? How could you take it to the next level?
MINDSET FOR FINDING THE RIGHT JOB
And once you have the direction, the next step is to address your mindset of possibility.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.”
― Henry Ford
Scott makes mention of the breaking of the 4-min mile which people thought was impossible. But the moment one person broke the record, many others promptly did so as well. It wasn’t a sudden jump in physical capability, but a change in mindset.
We need to be careful of “Learned Helplessness”.
Just because we haven’t been able to do something in the past doesn’t mean we will never be able to do it. That’s how elephants are trained. We often see huge elephant held still by nothing but a simple rope which they could easily break. Why? Because when they were young elephants, they were tied with ropes which they couldn’t break, and over time they learned that it was impossible, and they gave up trying altogether, even when they become full grown elephants.
What mindsets do you need to review right now?
