Most people spend one-third of their life at work. One-third!
Everyone wants to be satisfied and empowered in their chosen profession.
The most important way to be happy in your work is to take the time to define your dream job. Defining your dream job helps you find the perfect job that aligns with your values, lifestyle, passions and enjoyable skills.
When you find fulfilling work, your skills, passions and experience are utilized to their fullest and you feel energized instead of drained. When you do what you love, you get bigger and better results (including a better income and more opportunities), achieve more in less time, and feel energized about going to work everyday!
Defining your dream job is an exciting process! It opens the door to new job and career opportunities and gets you moving in a practical way toward what you truly want in your career.
To begin to define your dream job, you start by looking at where you are now with your job and career. Then you begin to brainstorm how and where you want to contribute your wealth of skills, interests and experience. A quick way to define your dream job is to follow "My Define Your Dream Job Process" by answering the following nine questions:
1. Are you really ready to make a job or career change at this time?
2. Why do you want to make a change? What is prompting you to want to make a job or career change? Is it dissatisfaction, a life change, retirement, lost enthusiasm, desire for more, or health issue?
3. What do you want more of and less of in your new job? Make list of what you didn't like about your jobs (your responsibilities, environment, or culture). Then make a list of what you have liked about your jobs and want more of in your next position.
4. What would you be doing in your dream job? What kinds of skills and abilities would you be using? If you could be doing just one thing all day long at work, what would it be?
5. What are you passionate and knowledgeable about? What interests do you have and what knowledge have you attained that you care about to use in your next job?
6. Where would you be doing it? What field, organization or company would you like to work? Describe the environment and culture of the organization where you'd thrive.
7. Who would you like to work with? What kind of people would you like to work with or for?
8. What are your exciting job options? If you could do any job or full-time activity without pay, what would it be? Think outside of the box! Explore different options and don't limit yourself with specific job titles, they can hold you back at this point. Consider what level of responsibility you would like to have and what you want to earn.
9. Are you fully prepared to promote yourself with a powerful career plan to land your dream job and earn what you are worth? You need to create your strategic career action plan and make sure you know how to get noticed to land your dream job. You also need to know how to "toot your own horn" and negotiate to earn what you are worth.
Congratulations! Defining your dream job is a very important process in your career. It can make a huge difference in a worker's happiness level at work and at home--since everyone knows how our work sometimes creeps home with us!
Defining your dream job doesn't have to be a difficult life-long struggle! As a career coach, I have found that most people have difficulty answering many of these questions. If you are one, you can get clarity, guidance and support from a professional career coach to help you explore your assets, resources, and career options. A career coach can also help you develop and work your powerful career plan to not only define your dream job, but land it too!
Career Coach, Kimberly Bowen, offers innovative coaching programs to help women design a fulfilling career around a fabulous life. Find out how to be fulfilled in your career by taking your FREE Career Challenge and Work + Life Satisfaction Quiz at http://www.CareerLifeDesigns.com
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