Think of the example of Bono switching into advocacy for global poverty. Third, being good at your job and gaining a sense of mastery is a vital component of being satisfied in your work. We covered this in the first article. Fourth, as we saw earlier , the jobs that are least likely to be automated are those that involve high-level skills, and technology is increasing the rewards for being a top performer. All this is why personal fit is one of the key factors to look for in a job. Hopefully you have some ideas for long-term options from earlier in the guide.
Read more. Note that after we wrote this article, an updated version of the meta-analysis we cite below was released. This could suggest a somewhat greater focus on predicting your performance ahead of time by speaking to managers in the relevant path.
We hope to do a more thorough review of this research in the future. None of the tests are very good. A correlation of 0. Because hiring is so expensive, employers really want to pick the best candidates and they know exactly what the job requires. Research in the science of decision-making collected over several decades shows that intuitive decision-making only works in certain circumstances. For instance, your gut instinct can tell you very rapidly if someone is angry with you.
This is because our brain is biologically wired to rapidly warn us when in danger. Your gut can also be amazingly accurate when trained. However, gut decision-making is poor when it comes to working out things like how fast a business will grow, who will win a football match, and what grades a student will receive.
Earlier , we also saw that our intuition is poor at working out what will make us happy. Career decision-making is more like these examples than being a chess grandmaster. This is exactly the situation with career choices: we only make a couple of major career decisions in our life, it takes years to see the results, and the job market keeps changing.
This all means your gut can give you clues about the best career. See our evidence review for more detail. Then they recommend careers that match that type. In the table above, the tests that best predict performance are those that are closest to actually doing the work with the interesting exception of IQ. This is probably what we should have expected. A work sample test is simply doing some of the work, and having the results evaluated by someone experienced.
Peer ratings measure what your peers think of your performance and so can only be used for internal promotions. Job tryout procedures and job knowledge tests are what they sound like. But eventually you need to actually try things. The closer you can get to actually doing the work, the better. But a career decision will influence decades of your life, so could easily be worth weeks or months of work.
Early on you know relatively little about your strengths and options. Also consider trying one or two wildcards to further broaden your experience. These are unusual options off the normal path, like living in a new country, pursuing an unusual side project or trying a sector you would have not normally have worked in e. Many successful people did exactly that. Tony Blair worked as a rock music promoter before going into politics. As we saw, Condoleezza Rice was a classical musician before she entered politics, while Steve Jobs even spent a year in India on acid, and considered moving to Japan to become a zen monk.
The typical 25 to year-old changes jobs every three years, 4 and changes are not uncommon later too. Trying out lots of options can also help you avoid one of the biggest career mistakes: considering too few options. Pushing yourself to try out several areas will help you to avoid this mistake.
Try to settle on a single goal too early, however, and you could miss a great option. All this said, exploring can still be costly. Trying out a job can take several years, and changing job too often makes you look flaky. How can you explore, while keeping the costs low?
How best to narrow down? Since gut decision making is unreliable, it helps to be a little systematic. If you disliked your last job, was it the role, your team, the organisation, or the sector? What have you enjoyed studying most — academic courses, training events, or learning for fun? What jobs done by friends fascinate you? What advertised jobs have attracted you? Of all the jobs you have ever held, which was the most enjoyable and why?
What topics do you enjoy talking about with friends? Think about a time when you had a great day at work. The sort of day where everything went well and got a real buzz. Write down what you were doing, what you enjoyed and what you achieved on that day. If all jobs paid the same, what work would you do? Analyse your skills. Look hard at your skills, particularly those acquired outside work. What do you do well? What skills do you look forward to using in the workplace?
Ensure you have plenty of up-to-date evidence of skills development, learning, and voluntary activities. They prefer to work where things get done with a minimum of interpretation and unexpected change. People with a yellow style tend to be orderly, cautious, structured, loyal, systematic, solitary, methodical, and organized, and usually thrive in a research-oriented, predictable, established, controlled, measurable, orderly environment.
You will want to choose a work environment or career path in which your style is welcomed and produces results. People with green styles perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is outgoing. They prefer to work where things get done with minimal analysis and where persuasion is well received by others. People with green styles tend to be spontaneous, talkative, personal, enthusiastic, convincing, risk-taking, and competitive, and usually thrive in a team-oriented, adventurous, informal, innovative, big picture-oriented, varied environment.
People with blue styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is supportive and helpful to others with a minimum of confrontation. They prefer to work where they have time to think things through before acting. People with blue style tend to be insightful, reflective, selectively sociable, creative, thoughtful, emotional, imaginative, and sensitive. Usually they thrive in a cutting edge, informally paced, future-oriented environment. People with red styles prefer to perform their job responsibilities in a manner that is action-oriented and practical.
They prefer to work where things happen quickly and results are seen immediately. People with red styles tend to be straightforward, assertive, logical, personable, authoritative, friendly, direct, and resourceful, and usually thrive in a self-structured, high-pressured, hierarchical, production-oriented, competitive environment.
It is important to note that interest in an activity does not necessarily indicate skill. Yellow — People with yellow Interests like job responsibilities that include organizing and systematizing, and professions that are detail-oriented, predictable, and objective. Green — People with green Interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve persuasion, sales, promotions, and group or personal contact.
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