Define Your Ideal Job
Are you are unhappy in your current job or have been displaced and you know the job you have is not ideal for your career goals and aspiration.
To be able to define your Ideal Job, there are some fundamental questions that you need to be able to answer:
- What are your interests at work?
- What tasks or skills motivates you at work?
- What are your personal and work values?
- What are your personality preferences and how do they impact on your choice of work?
- What are your personal strengths and how many transferable skills do you really have?
- How will the Ideal Job fit in with your other priorities in life?
- What are your financial and career goals for work?
Identifying the Ideal Job is quite a challenge! Take a look below for more detail to see if it's for you:
Step 1. Identifying your work interests and motivators.
The first step to defining your Ideal Job is to understand what really interests you, and motivates you, in the world of work. A specially developed online psychometric test is used to accurately identify the key aspects of work that will constitute your Ideal Job. This test has been developed by chartered psychologists over the last five years and has been successfully used to assist individuals at all levels from undergraduates through to senior managers.
Step 2. Clarifying your values.
These are the behaviours and beliefs to which you are naturally drawn, and are what make you unique in your job. Your Ideal Job will be one that helps you to express these values every day, and during this step you will identify your top personal values and top work values.
Step 3. Understanding your personality and transferable skills.
You will gain an insight into your personality; preferred working styles; how you relate to, and communicate with others and your decision making preferences. You will then be able to ensure any future job allows you to freely work in these preferred ways.
You will also undergo a transferable skills audit, giving you clarity on the skills you have that can be best used in your Ideal Job. Experience shows that these key skills often aren't as obvious as they seem!
Step 4. How your Ideal Job fits in with your priorities in life.
Work does not take place in isolation from the rest of your life. You will uncover what you want from the other aspects of your life and how they will impact on your Ideal Job - in areas such as your health, family, friends, personal relationships, fun, hobbies, personal development, physical environment and financial goals.
You will also define the context of your Ideal Job - clarifying what you want in terms of hours worked, job location, job security and how much you want to be paid.
Step 5. Identifying your strategic career choices.
By making use of all the information gathered from the process so far, you will become clear on exactly what your strategic career choices are at this point in your life. Inevitably, your Ideal Job will entail making use of your existing or newly developed skills within existing or new industry sectors.
For example, you could continue with a career within your existing areas of knowledge and competence, stay where you are in terms of industry sector or organisation and look for a shift in the type of job, carry on with the job you do in a different sector or throw caution to the wind and follow a long-held dream or passion!
Step 6. A Professional Snapshot is your Personal Positioning Statement.
You are now in a position to put everything together and create a great Professional Snapshot. A Professional Snapshot that concisely articulates your skills and experiences to your future employers in a way that demonstrates that you understand the job that needs to be done, that you fit in with their company culture and that you have the experience and the skills to succeed in the new role.
To do this you will also create a personal positioning statement. This is, in effect, your personal "elevator pitch" in which you can start to tell your friends, your network, recruiters and potential employers exactly what job you're looking for, give them a relevant overview of your skills & experiences and tell them why you want to do the job you're looking for.
The secret of this stage in the process is to create a different Professional Snapshot or resume and a personal positioning statements, consistent with what would be your Ideal Job. Sign up to find your Ideal Job
The EMAC Group offers a variety of Candidate Resource options that can be individually utilized to meet each candidate’s search requirements.
At THE EMAC GROUP, we practice the golden rule: “Partnering for Success”. We will take your career goals and aspirations as seriously as you do.
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