GPS for your Career Path

How to find the perfect career path? a GPS maybe?

Wouldn’t that be great though? Just work out where it is you want to go with your job, plug in the co-ordinates of where you are now, press navigate and off you go!! Off down the perfect career path.

We have just spent a few weeks travelling around the UK with our trusty GPS system and while its great when it does work, its shocking when it doesn’t. I think they should include surviving your relationship while driving in a strange country with a GPS in marriage guidance courses! (don’t even ask me about the time we tried to get from Switzerland to Munich Airport in time for our plane)

It does strike me though that navigating through our life in search of the perfect career path can be a lot like driving around a strange country with a GPS.
Let me tell you why,

Even if you have worked out exactly where you want to go, all it takes is one wrong turn and you’re getting the message…..”off route”, recalculating. Annoying as this may be, we often get to see parts of the country and towns that we wouldn’t otherwise see and enhance our experience. We may even completely change our minds as to where we are going.

Our perfect career path can be a bit like that. Even if we are pretty sure we know where we are going, but life can throw us some curve balls, or other options come up that we may want to consider. But we do still need to have a strong idea of where it is we want to end up. Otherwise we may just wander all over the place and not get anywhere we want to go. Or we may not get anywhere at all.

So the trick it seems, is to work out where you want to go in the first place. And then set your Career GPS system and get going. Don’t just sit in the driveway all day. Life is much more interesting than that!

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Career and Personality Match

Have you ever given much thought about wether your own career and personality match?

Well perhaps you need to think about it.

Have you ever noticed that some jobs have real sterotypes attached to them?

Have you ever said: Typical accountant, typical car salesman, typical librarian?

Do you see how some people have careers that suit their personalities or visa versa?

I know I have often found myself asking people if they actually enjoy their jobs as their personality just doesnt seem to fit! (often they don't by the way)

If you have the right job for your personality, it will enhance your life. You will be doing things the way you like to do them and in some way will reflect who you are as a person. You will be using your natural strengths and will look forward to going to work each day.

In short, your job will suit you and you won’t have people like me asking you if you really do enjoy your job, because it will be obvious that you do.

So find out who you are, what makes you tick, what your natural strengths are and look to getting those aspects into your working life so that your career and personality match.

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Using Commmon sense for Career and Life Success

Is the environment you have placed yourself in a good environment for your personality, or does it drain the very life out of you?

Some political theorists think that if you change the environment, you will change the people, and while there may be some truth in that, the actual reality is that if the environment doesn’t suityour personality type, there will be no long term satisfaction for anybody.

Sometimes, with career and life success, commonsense needs to be used.

For example, I was talking to young man the other day who had gone from a very structured work place culture, to a similar job, but it was more laid back. He much preferred the more structured work place and as a result was quite frustrated in his job and how they did things in his new place of employment. Not a good result for him or his new employer.

So, before you jump ship into a different job, it is so important to take some time to analyse what it is that you actually don’t like about your present job.

Is it the job itself that is the problem? Or is it the environment or the culture of the business that doesn’t align well with you?

These are pretty important things to consider so that you don’t find yourself jumping from the frying pan into the fire as it were.

The upshot is that when you are looking at changing jobs for career and life success, common sense is a valuable ally. Please give some serious thought to what type of environment you thrive in before you jump.

You owe it to yourself and everyone around you.

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