When in the market for a new job or career, it is crucial to enter into the process knowing your goals. Having process goals outlining all that you desire in a job. Feeling passionate and proud of the work you do is a privilege and ensuring that you find that job for yourself can be done by working through and setting goals for your job.
Identify to yourself the importance in finding a meaningful job
Checking in with yourself before the job process begins regarding why it may be important to you to find a job that creates meaning, is an important first step in creating career goals.
Identify your strengths and align them with achievable goals
When thinking about a career that may be right for you, addressing your interests and strengths go hand in hand. Assessing your strengths and how they could serve you in a fulfilling job is helpful when entering the job application process. Acknowledging your strengths assists in forming attainable goals based on reasonable expectations of yourself.
Ask for Input
Asking for input from a family member or close friend will help you in the process of straining through the careers that may suit you best. Family and friends know you best and would be the best people to go to and ask what career they see you in. Other people that you can ask for their input on suitable jobs are career coaches, mentors or teachers. These people have the life experience and career experience to indicate to you why certain paths may be more applicable and fitting for you. When asking someone for input on a career, share your work experience and how parts of jobs in the past have either been a good or poor fit for you. Knowing what you don’t want in a career is valuable, just as knowing what you do want in a career is valuable.
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