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This profile will give you further insight into whether you're in the right job, or whether it's time to dry clean your suit/frock. Certainly if you seek a new job you'll find one; knock on a few doors and one will open up. Keep a look out and you're sure to find something that suits you.

 

Never forget that 'its not what you know but who you know' that counts when getting a new job.

 

If you don't ask, you won't get.

 

Of course you need to know what you really want to do. If you don't know that then you may as well pick any job.

 

I see a lot of people who don't know what they want to do when they grow up - and they're already 45.

 

If you don't know what you want you're going to have to put up with what you're getting. Or you're going to have to put up with what ever comes your way. Chances it could be a tsunami!

 

Get on the front foot, manage up, and if needs be, manage your way out to the job you're really like to do.

 

THE CAREER DIS-SATISFACTION PROFILE

Give yourself a score out of ten, appropriate for your performance on each of  the ten questions below. A good score is a high score. A poor score is a low score. If your response to any question is 'I don't care', or 'It doesn't matter', score 7.

         

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Do your values match the organisation's? Is your opinion frequently called for. When it is, is it given thoughtful consideration and valued?

Nope

Sure do
     
 

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Does your manager like you? Do you get invited in for a chat, asked out for coffee, been home for a meal ...? Does you manager come down and talk to you?

Nope

Sure does
     
 

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Do you like your boss? Do you feel confident about sharing your ideas,. dropping in for a chat, inviting them out, having them round ...?

Nope

Sure do
 
 

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Do the people you work with like you? Do you feel like you're part of a well-oiled, highly effective and cohesive team?

Nope

Sure do
 
 

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Do you like the people you work with? Do you enjoy their company, enjoy working with them and socializing with them?

Nope

Sure do

 

 

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Do you get to do the work you really like doing? Are you doing the work you were employed to do? Are you doing work you like doing?

Nope

Absolutely
 
 

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If there flow or struggle? If there's struggle it's probably because you're not doing what you want to do, or the work doesn't suit your personality or your intelligence strengths, or you keep getting to tough jobs, the boring jobs, the grunge jobs nobody else wants to do.

Struggle

Flow

   

 

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Are you one of the 'in' group, or do you keep getting excluded from meetings your peers get invited to. Do 'they' keep going over your head or behind your back?

Out

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Are you happy with your office you've been given, or do you work in a dug out?

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Do you look forward to going to work - or are you stressed out of your brain at the very thought of it, you can't wait to get out of their every night?

I dread going to work

I love going to work
 
 

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YOUR RESULTS

 

If you scored more than 70 there is a good chance that you're in the right job for now. You're probably doing what you want to do and the level of support is at least satisfactory. Wear the fox hat.

 

If you scored less than 70 there is the wisp of a suggestion that you're not in the right job.

 

If you scored less than 60 there is a high likelihood that you're not in the right job.

 

This is not always the case. There are some people who have good internal drivers who couldn't care less what other people thought of their work and who don't need constant pats on the head and bags of lollies. However, they're few and far between.

 

If you scored less than 40 you're definitely not in the right job. It's probably sucking all vitality out of you.

 

If you're not in the right job, put your thinking cap on. Go to somewhere like www.tickle.com and do some IQ and personality tests. Go to your employee assistance program. Talk to your manager. Set yourself a deadline to move somewhere else where you can be richly fulfilled by your career.

 

If you can find a job that suits your personality and your intelligence strengths and/or something about which you're passionate, you will, as the Buddha said, not have to do another day's work in your life. Confucius is reported to have said the same thing. If you want to know more about what Confucius said click here.