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工作滿意度是我們都在追求和希望得到的東西。這篇文章分析了一些在職場中影響你滿意度的關鍵點和基本因素。
獲得工作滿意度的五個關鍵要素
<For the original English version of this posting, please go to bottom>
我已有多年管理人員、指導他們工作、引導他們的職業生涯,並向世界上最前沿的職業高手們學習的經驗,現在我可以自信地與大家分享獲得工作滿意度的五個要素:
1.興趣——你對什麼工作有激情
2.人格類型——你的大腦是如何連接到一起的
3.價值觀——什麼東西能在你的生活中獲得優先地位
4.技巧——你的能力、天賦才智
5.區分物——什麼使你與別人與眾不同
發現或創造最適合你的職業,然後學習在這一職業中獲得成功,這其中涉及一個自我發現和自我意識的過程。
美國頂尖學大學普林斯頓大學認為「自我意識」是成功的關鍵,他們把這一點納入到企業家的研究生課程中。
事實是,太多人幾乎是非常偶然地踏入他們現在從事的職業。通常,這會導致人們遭遇大量的職業挫折,並無法獲得成功。
我詢問前來進行職業諮詢的客戶,問他們是如何進入他們目前的工作,或者為什麼他們選擇自己的大學專業,大多數人告訴我,他們踏入自己的職業前沒有進行太多的思考。直到過了一段時間後,他們才意識到他們並不滿意自己的職業。
挫折、嘗試、錯誤對某些人而言確實有效。我不否認這一點。但花一點點時間,發掘自己的職業方向,這可以使人從對自己的工作充滿怨恨轉向獲得工作滿意度。
對此我沒有進行過統計,但我認為,完全依靠嘗試和錯誤的人與尋找到自己真正的職業方向的人相比,後者對職業的滿意度更高。
找到真正的職業方向並不一定依賴於運氣和錯誤。你可以選擇一條更為直接的路徑,一條風險更少、更為確定、使你更快實現目標的路徑。
下面介紹的工具都能為了幫助你更好地了解自己,築造自己的職業生涯,並走上一條能取得成功、獲得工作滿意度的道路。
當然,能有一點運氣再好不過,過程中也總是會有一些嘗試和錯誤。但沒有什麼能比知道完全了解自己,從而指導自己的命運來得更好。
(1)興趣——你對什麼工作有激情
做你能夠產生激情、感到興奮的工作,這可能是為自己創造完美職業生涯最關鍵的一點。
當你能享受你在做的任務、做的這種工作,那麼你真的不會覺得自己是在工作。例如,我對所做的工作極其有激情。我通常每周工作6天半,從早忙到晚,但我仍然喜歡它。我睡覺時還想著明天還有什麼事情可以實現。當我醒來時,我等不及要開始工作。但是,一開始我也一無所知,後來進行了嚴肅的自我反省後,才定下這份工作。那時候對我想要的職位還沒有招聘信息,當時我也不知道有哪個榜樣可以讓我學習。
不是每個人都需要從零起步,創造自己的職業的。大多數人只需從廣泛的現有職業中,選擇一個正確的職業。
你需要進行大約一萬小時的實踐和經驗,才能真正成為某方面的行家。這大約要花費5至8年。因此,要想成為你這一職業的能手,你必須足夠喜歡它,願意花費時間和精力。
如何知道你對哪種類型的工作感興趣?嘗試和錯誤的確有效,但它需要花費很長的時間——可能會花費幾年時間。幸運的是,你可以進行測試(評估),這將幫助你識別你可能熱愛的職業。這些評估僅需花費20分鐘。
下面列出的兩種基於興趣的職業測試(職業評估)會給你靈感,給你匹配感興趣的職業。它們會給你列出符合你興趣的職業,還會給你列出你可能希望迴避的職業。
兩種評估都基於約翰•霍蘭博士的先驅努力,他開發RIASEC系統,可以用來了解不同類型的工作。這兩種評估都將描述RIASEC系統,所以此處我不進行詳述。
這兩種評估會給你霍蘭代碼,它是2至3個字母的代碼,告訴你你對哪些類型的職業最感興趣。
一旦你知道你的霍蘭代碼,你就可以看任何職業,判斷它是否可能適合你。
順便說一句,沒有一種職業測試能告訴你單一一個最適合你的職業。它不會這樣。你會從一列相匹配的職業開始,然後將這些列表縮小到幾個選擇,接著研究這些選擇。
職業興趣測試(CiT®)
這是基於我們興趣的職業測試(職業測評)。自2000年推出它以來,它一直是我們最暢銷的產品。
除了給你提供霍蘭代碼、匹配的職業列表和避免的職業列表,報告還會向你將解釋如何將職業列表縮小至最有可能的前3種職業,以及如何最終決定你的職業,或選擇哪個專業。我們會給你提供一個行之有效的方法,使你作出最終的職業選擇決定。
CiT對13歲至60歲及以上的人都有效。它非常簡單,只要高中閱讀水平即可完成。
我們建議人們從進行CIT測試開始,然後如果需要更深入的了解,再轉向斯特朗職業興趣量表。
斯特朗職業興趣量表®
斯特朗職業興趣量表是一種行業標準興趣評估,它能確定你的興趣所在,並提供匹配職業建議。它同樣適用霍蘭代碼方法。除此之外,它還吸取了史丹福大學斯特朗博士的研究。
斯特朗博士測試了從事幾個不同的職業的成千上萬的人(斯特朗於2012年更新了幾個新的職業)。測試對象都滿意他們所從事的工作。所以,當你進行斯特朗測試時,你會看到你和喜歡自己職業的人的比較。
測試報告非常複雜,包含幾個圖表和統計數據。
斯特朗適用於18歲及以上人群。
提供斯特朗測試的人必須經過培訓和認證。我們就經過了培訓和認證。斯特朗測試通過快速的電話說明進行。
哪種興趣評估最適合你?
坦率地說,有些人喜歡CiT,因為它簡單,且能指導你如何研究職業,以及如何作出最後的職業決定。
其他人更喜歡斯特朗,因為它有數據、圖表和統計數據。
(2)「人格」和你的職業生涯有什麼關係?
當你第一次聽說「人格類型」這一術語時,它可能使你想到「電視人物」,或高中時代個性出眾,很受歡迎的人物。但這不是我們所要討論的。
「人格類型」是「心理類型」中常見術語,它描述我們的大腦是如何進行聯繫、如何運作,大腦中的每部分擅長做什麼,我們為何會喜歡做某些事情,過某種生活。
人格類型是選擇正確職業,發展自我意識最有用的工具之一。
麥爾斯—布瑞格斯®的16種心理類型
ISTJ
ISFJ
INFJ
INTJ
ISTP
ISFP
INFP
INTP
ESTP
ESFP
ENFP
ENTP
ESTJ
ESFJ
ENFJ
ENTJ
人格類型在選擇職業生涯有價值的部分原因是,已有超過70年的研究,它可顯示哪種人格類型適合哪種職業。
到亞馬遜上搜索「人格類型」,這一主題下的結果中有超過200本好書。
儘管最初的人格類型理論是由瑞士心理學家榮格在1920年提出的,設計了4字母的性格類型的代碼的是邁爾斯和布瑞格斯,現今它非常受歡迎。他們最初的動機是為了理解為什麼某些性格類型比其他類型更適合某些工作。
他們在二戰期間做了許多工作,因為當時士兵都上了戰場,許多職位招不到人,卻很難填補上空缺。所以,邁爾斯和布瑞格斯想要設計一種系統,使他們觀察和評估人們,然後給他們建議可能希望從事的工作。
那這種人格類型究竟是什麼?
人們擁有16種完全不同的認知功能,即看待世界、進行思考、做出決定、喜歡哪種生活的模式。
我喜歡把這16種人格類型中的每一個比作在我們的頭腦後面運行一個小電腦程式。我們每人都有一個程序。它描述了我們的天性。它並沒有決定權,我們能控制住它。但它時時刻刻都在指導我們的行為。
最令人驚訝的是,你的4字母人格類型一生都會保持不變,即使你不斷成長,不斷成熟,這一人格仍保持不變。
人生中有極少數事情可以保持不變,可以信賴多年。因此花一點時間去找出你的類型,你周圍的人的類型是有意義的。
免責聲明
人格類型並不是一門準確的科學,有時很難確定哪種模式最適合某人。
生活經歷、教育背景、工作環境和童年生長經歷,都在調整我們的「學習行為」,這些都會凌駕於我們的核心人格類型。因此,需要花費一些努力,透過我們學習到的行為,深入到每個人的核心人格類型。
這是否意味著有這個星球上超過70億的人口只有16種人格類型?
是的。在這個星球上有超過70億的人口,當然也有超過70億的獨特人格。但是,如果你深入到每個人的核心,他們都是16種人格類型的某一種。不開玩笑。
這怎麼可能?因為榮格發現,這些認知功能是我們的大腦中的基本構建塊。我們都有這些認知功能。人與人之間的差異就是我們對它們的使用程度。當將我們從生活經驗中學到的行為納入考慮範圍,你就可以得到70億種獨特的個性,他們都是16種人格類型的某一種。
無論你是出生在中國、印度、加拿大、英國或美國都不要緊。你的核心仍然是這16種中的某一種。
但我不相信你——我是懷疑論者
多年以來,人格類型只是一種由大量研究和觀察到的數據作後盾的理論,但沒有實體證據。然而,自2000年起,事情有所改變。研究人員已經發現16種人格類型中的每一種和大腦中神經化學物質濃度的聯繫。因此,每種人格類型相對於其他類型,在大腦中具有稍微不同神經化學物質。
證據不止於此。在2011年出版的圖書《人格神經科學》中,加州大學洛杉磯分校的達裡•奧納迪博士通過將EEG電極測試受被試者頭部,發現16種人格類型中的每一種使用大腦的模式,和其它15種使用大腦的模式不同。
為何要使用人格類型?
如果你不是一個心理學家,為什麼你要關心人格類型?因為無數數據表明,16種人格類型會更偏向哪些職業。如同興趣測試一樣,了解你的4字母人格類型代碼可以你指出職業選擇,這些職業這已經被證明非常適合你。
人格類型是決定一個人的職業生涯的一個很好的起點。它不是最終的決定因素。這只是一個已經被證明對其他人有效的工具。
我使用人格類型已有足夠長的時間,當我有一個前來進行職業諮詢的新客戶,我通常可以看看他們的簡歷和他們的4字母的人格類型代碼和,相當準確猜出他們喜歡或不喜歡的工作。如果他們在從事與性格類型不同的職業,我可以看到潛在的衝突。甚至在我和他們談話之前,我就可以知道這一切。我要說,我指導的客戶中,約有75%適用於這種方式。
了解你的人格類型,以及它和他人的人格類型有什麼不同,這能提高你的自我意識,了解什麼職業或什麼類型的工作會使你獲得更高的工作滿意度。
知道你的4字母人格類型可以幫助你了解以下內容:
企業和組織使用人格類型的目的如下:
搭建更好、更有效的團隊
更有組織地發展
領導力培養
解決矛盾
這一切都始於發掘你最適合的4字母人格類型。我們提供兩種評估,幫助你開始發掘。
進行我們的免費人格測試(測試報告單獨出售),但我們的評估將幫助你找出你的4字母類型代碼是什麼,這是免費的。它將告訴你16種模式中哪種最適合你,如果你的分數比較接近,它會提示哪些其他類型可能適合你。
因此,為了確認最適合你的類型,你可以閱讀每種類型的描述。這叫作「最適合類型方法」。
在我們的網站上,你可以找到由該領域知名專家,包括琳達•貝倫斯博士、達裡•奧納迪博士和心理學博士房利美•R•林德撰寫的完整的「16種類型的描述」。
我們還提供行業標準麥爾斯—布瑞格斯類型指標(MBTI®),我們會通過電話進行完整的解釋說明。只有經過培訓和認證的人可以提供麥爾斯—布瑞格斯測試。我們經過培訓和認證,有資格從事此活動。
(3)價值觀和職業
「價值觀」即你的核心價值,是你認為對你最重要的事情。你的價值觀就是你會願意去爭取的東西。這並不是說我在建議你變得粗暴。
你的價值觀會告訴你什麼是對的還是錯的,好的或是壞的。
價值觀是你人格的核心部分。有些價值會在你的人生保持不變,而其他價值會隨著你人生經驗的積累發生改變。
如果有人冒犯了你,或者你認為這是件非常錯誤的事情,那就是你的價值觀在說話。
(順便說一句,你的價值觀可以通過廣告、媒體、宣傳、同行壓力和造謠被人操縱。)
要想有一個很棒的職業,並且在生活中與他人相處融洽,你就得知道你的價值觀是什麼。
例如,這裡是一些我個人的價值觀:
•誠實、正直
•努力工作
•成功
•照顧家庭
•幫助他人
•別人願意信賴我
•用我願意的方式,自由地做我的事
•擁有想工作就工作的自由
•不斷學習,獲取新知識
•和行業專家共事
•交擁有類似的興趣和價值觀的朋友
•擁有創造表達的機會
你可能沒有機會發現你的個人價值觀是什麼。因此,了解你的價值將是令人興奮的。
我們的價值就藏在我們正常認知水平下面。有些人非常清楚自己的價值觀,而其他人沒有花太多的時間在研究他們的價值觀上。
我們在職業生涯規劃使用價值觀的原因是,你的年紀越大,工作和職業的滿意度越取決於你的價值觀。
當你剛開始你的職業生涯時,價值觀通常不是問題。25年的年輕人更注重第一份職業的勝利,並取得一些成功。25歲時,價值觀通常不是問題。
但隨著年齡的增長,尤其是當你過了35歲,接近40歲時,你的價值觀變得愈發重要。接著很有可能你的工作場所、你的同事和你的老闆都將挑戰你的個人價值觀。
例如,你要接受一個華爾街高層的工作,在那兒,貪婪被認為是正常的,無論誰受到傷害,或者整個世界經濟陷入衰退危機,賺儘可能多的錢都是是主要目的。
很多人的價值觀都認為,你不應該做傷天害理的事情,或者你不應該吞噬人們的退休金和儲蓄,或者不應該通過取消抵押品贖回權,導致幾十萬人失去家園。
因此,如果這些事情使你困擾,那麼這就是你的價值觀在發言,你可能不希望在華爾街工作。
但有些人並不擁有這些價值觀。有些人認為,只要他們能獲得勝利,破壞其他人的生活無所謂。他們的價值觀在於獲勝,在於以己為先。
曾經有位職業諮詢客戶告訴我,他所關心的是賺儘可能多的錢越好,他不在乎他做的是什麼事。我直接告訴他去華爾街。我認為這比做一個銀行搶劫犯或毒販更安全。至少沒人會遭槍擊。
你會找到一些工作場所的衝突沒這麼極端的例子。也許你的工作需要你賣產品給不需要它的人,但你必須得賺佣金。所以,無論如何,你都要賣給他們。價值觀衝突最終使你無法容忍,你會選擇轉行。
了解價值觀最好的方式是使用我們的職業價值觀卡。
諾德爾™職業價值觀卡分類(在線版本)
(4)技巧和能力
技巧就是完成某項任務的能力。我們所有人都有技巧。
關鍵在於知道你有什麼技巧。
你的工作經驗越多,這就越難。我知道有幾個人可以在工作中做許多不同的事情,但他們無法專注於能使他們最成功和最滿意的技巧。因此,他們四處碰壁,從未領先。他們對此非常沮喪。
這就是諾德爾動機技巧卡分類的設計目的。它能幫你識別你的技巧,
不僅如此,它可以幫助你將你喜歡使用的技能、擅長的技能好時和其他的技能區分開。
它會告訴你什麼是你的動機技能(你善於和喜歡的技能)。
它會告訴你什麼是你的倦怠技能(你厭倦使用的技能)。
它會告訴你什麼是你的可發展技能(你希望改進的技能)。
由此,你可以識別出你的可遷移技能。這些是你可以帶到其它工作上、希望在簡歷(CV)上強調的技能。
這很有趣,易於使用,並且只需要幾分鐘的時間。
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(5)區分物是使你與眾不同的東西嗎?
最後一步是關於你了解你和他人有什麼不同,是什麼讓你與眾不同。
如果你走進一個房間,裡面有99位和你年齡性別相同的人,所有人都是隨機選擇的,你可以列出有多少和他們顯著不同的地方?
你有沒有一些房間裡其他人可能沒有的天賦?
你有沒有其他人可能沒有的工作經驗?
你有沒有其他人可能沒有的特殊知識或能力?
有沒有什麼事情,你在比大多數人做的好很多?
例如,你也許會說:
知道你是和他人有什麼不同,這是選擇最適合你的工作5個關鍵因素之一。
區分,或知道某樣東西有什麼不同,這實際上是營銷101課教授的主題。
為了讓人們購買產品,營銷人員會重點關注他們的產品和其它產品有和不同。推銷產品就像推銷自己一樣,你告訴人們你和他人有什麼不同,在哪些地方你比他人更好。
在聽汽車電視廣告時,你就能發現他們是如何區分的。你會聽到商家會這樣介紹自己的汽車:最安全、速度最快、最佳燃油效率、最大駕駛樂趣、最安靜、最酷、最豪、最舒適等等。這在你身上也是一樣的。你要知道你和房間裡其他99人有何不同。
我不想讓你和你一起工作的人,或你們這一級的人進行比較,因為如果你和同事或校友比較,你們的共同點比不同點更多。工作場所和教室往往吸引擁有相同技能、能力和知識的人。因此,和房間裡99位隨機選擇的陌生人進行比較。
以下「是什麼使你與眾不同工作表」是免費的,但你只有在已經探索了上面所述的其他工具後,才可做這一練習。那些工具將刺激你——為你提供認識你的視角和想法,幫助你為這一練習做準備。
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Job satisfaction is something that we all try to pursue and hope we can achieve. This article identifies a handful of key, fundamental factors that most impact your ability to attain satisfaction in your work.
The 5 Keys To Achieving Job Satisfaction
After years of managing people, coaching them on the job, guiding them in their careers, and learning from the world's foremost career gurus, I can now confidently share with you, the 5 keys to achieving JOB SATISFACTION:
1.Interest - What work can you become passionate about
2.Personality Type - How your brain is wired
3.Values - What your personal priorities in life are
4.Skills - Your abilities, talents, and aptitudes
5.Differentiators - What makes you different and special
1) Interest - What Careers Will You Be Passionate About
Doing things that you can be passionate about and excited about is probably the most important key to creating the perfect career for yourself.
When you enjoy the tasks and the type of work you do, then it really does not feel like work at all. For example, the work I do is something that I am extremely passionate about. I typically work 6 1/2 days a week from morning till night and I still love it. I go to sleep thinking about what I can achieve tomorrow. When I wake up I can't wait to get started working. But this is a career that I created from scratch after some serious soul searching. There were no job postings for what I do, and no role models that I knew of at the time.
Not everyone needs to build a career from scratch, to create something out of nothing. Most people just need to pick the right career from a wide range of already existing careers.
It takes about 10,000 hours of practice and experience to become really good at something. That's about 5 to 8 years. Thus to become really good at a career, you have to like it enough to put in that kind of time and effort.
How do you know what types of work will interest you? Well, trial and error works, but it takes a long time - like several years. Fortunately there are tests (assessments) you can take that will help you identify careers that you could become passionate about. These assessments only take 20 minutes.
The two interest based career tests (career assessments) listed below will give you career ideas that match what you are interested in. They will give you lists of careers that match your interests. And they will show you which careers you might want to avoid.
Both assessments are based on the pioneering work of Dr. John Holland who developed the RIASEC system for understanding the different types of work. Both assessments will describe the RIASEC system, so I won't cover that here.
Both assessments will give you your Holland Code which is a 2 to 3 letter code indicating which types of careers you are most interested in.
Once you know your Holland Code you can look at any career and decide if it might be a good fit for you.
By the way, there is no career test that will tell you the one single career that is most perfect for you. It doesn't happen that way. Instead, you start with a list of matching careers. You narrow down the list to your top few choices and then you research those choices.
The Career Interest Test (CiT®)
The Strong Interest Inventory®
Which Interest Assessment Is Best For You?
Quite frankly, some people like the CiT for it's simplicity and for the instructions about how to research careers and how to make your final career decision.
Other people prefer the Strong, for it's data, charts and statistics.
2) What Does "Personality" Have To Do With Your Career?
When you first hear the term "Personality Type," it may conjure up images of "TV personalities" or who was most popular in high school or who had a great personality. But that's not what we are talking about.
"Personality Type" is the popular term for Psychological Type which describes how our brains are wired, how our brains function, what each of our brains is good at, and how we prefer to do things and go about our lives.
Personality type is one of the most useful tools there is for selecting the right career, and for developing self awareness.
Part of what makes personality type so valuable in selecting a career is that there is over 70 years of research showing which personality types fit which careers.
Just go to Amazon.com and search for "Personality Type." There are over 200 good books on the subject of Type.
Although the original personality type theory was developed by Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung in the 1920's, it was Myers and Briggs who devised the 4 letter personality type code which has become so popular today. Their original motivation was to understand why certain personality types fit certain jobs better than other types.
They did much of their work during WWII when it was hard to fill all the jobs left open when the soldiers went off to war. So Myers and Briggs wanted a system where they could observe and assess people and then suggest jobs where they might want to work.
So What Is This Personality Type Stuff All About?
There are 16 fundamentally different patterns to how people use their Cognitive Functions. That is, how they see the world, how they think, how they make decisions, and how they prefer to go about their lives.
I like to think of each of these 16 personality types as a small computer program running in the back of our minds. We each have one. It describes how we naturally like to behave. It does not have the final say. We can always over ride it. But it's there all the time guiding our behavior minute to minute.
Most amazingly, your 4 letter personality type stays the same throughout your life. Even as you develop and mature your 4 letter type stays constant.
There are very few things in life that are constant and that you can depend on for so many years. Thus it pays to spend a little time to figure out what your type is and the types of the people around you.
A Disclaimer
Personality type is not an exact science. It can sometimes be hard to determine which of the 16 type patterns fits a person the best.
Life experiences, education, work environment and child hood upbringing all play a role in adjusting our "learned behavior" which rides on top of our core personality type. So it can take some effort to drill down past our learned behavior to each person's core personality type.
Does This Mean That With Over 7 Billion People On The Planet, There Are Only 16 Personality Types?
Yes. With over 7 billion people on this planet, there are obviously over 7 billion unique personalities. But, if you drill down to the core of each of these people, they are all running on one of the 16 personality types programs. No kidding.
How can that be? Because Carl Jung discovered that these cognitive functions are the basic building blocks in our brains. We all have these cognitive functions. What varies person to person is how much we can use each one. Plus, when you add the learned behavior that we get from life experiences, you can get 7+ billion unique personalities, all of which are running on one of the 16 basic programs.
It does not matter whether you were born in China, India, Canada, the UK or the USA. You still have one of these 16 types at your core.
But I Don't Believe You - I Am Skeptical
For many years, Personality Type was only a theory backed up by lots of research and observable data. But there had been no physical proof. However, since 2000, that has changed. Researchers have discovered links between each of the 16 personality types and concentrations of neuro chemicals in the brain. So each personality type will have a slightly different brain chemistry in each section of the brain, compared to the other types.
But the proof goes beyond that. In his 2011 book "Neuroscience of Personality", researcher Dr. Dario Nardi at UCLA has shown that by attaching EEG electrodes to test subjects heads, that each of the 16 personality types use sections of their brains in a pattern that is different from the way the other 15 types use their brain.
3) Your Values and Your Career
To have a great career, and to get along well with others in life, you really want to know what your values are.
You may not have had the opportunity to discover what your personal values are. So getting to know your values will be exciting.
Our values lie just below our normal level of awareness. Some people know their values very well, while others have not spent much time looking at their values.
The reason we use values in career planning is that job and career satisfaction depend on your values especially the older you become.
Many people have a value that says you should not do something that hurts a lot of people, or you should not do something that wipes out people's retirement and savings, or you should not do something that causes hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes through foreclosure.
You will find less extreme examples of conflicting values in the workplace. Perhaps your job requires you to sell a product to someone who really doesn't need it, yet you have to earn your commissions. So you sell to them anyway. That conflict in values will eventually become too much for you to tolerate and you will change jobs.
The best way to start learning what your values are is to use our Career Values Card.
4) Skills and Abilities
Skills are the ability to perform certain tasks. We all have skills.
The trick is to identify and name your skills.
The more work experience you have, the harder this is. I know several people who do can do so many different things at work, that they are unable to focus on the skills that will make them the most successful and the most satisfied. Thus they spend their time bouncing around and never getting ahead. They are very frustrated by this.
That's what the Knowdell Motivated Skills Card Sort was designed for. It helps you identify your skills.
But it goes way beyond that. It helps you separate out the skills you love using and are good at, from all the other skills you have.
It will show you what your Motivated Skills are (skills you are good at and you enjoy).
It will show you what your Burnout Skills are (skills you are tired of using).
It will show you your Developmental Skills (skills you want to improve).
From this, you can identify your Transferable Skills. These are the skills that you can take from job to job. These are the skills you want to highlight on your resumé (CV).
It's fun and easy to use, and it only takes a few minutes.
Knowdell Motivated Skills Card Sort (online version)
5) Your Differentiators Are What Makes You Unique?
This last step is about how you are different and what makes you unique.
If you walked into a room with 99 other people of the same age and gender as you, all randomly selected, how many things can you list where you would be significantly different from them?
Do you have any gifts that stand out that probably would not be found in that room?
Do yo have any work experience the others might not have?
Do you have any special knowledge or abilities those others might not have?
Is there something you are much better at than most people?
Knowing how you are different is one of the 5 keys to putting yourself in the best possible career.
Differentiation, or knowing how something is different, is actually a subject that is taught in Marketing 101 classes.
In order to get people to buy a product, marketers focus on identifying how their product is different from all the rest. You promote a product just like you promote yourself by telling people how you are different and how you are better than the others.
The "What Makes You Different Worksheet" that follows is free, but you should only do this after you have explored the other tools described above. Those tools will prime the pump - give you insights and ideas about yourself- and prepare you for this exercise.
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