Volume 4, Issue 6 June 2001 Job Link The Fearsome Threesome
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...
NRI’s Annandale Office Has Moved...Finally!NRI Celebrates 34 Years of Excellence
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The Fearsome Threesome The following article is by Richard N. Bolles, the author of What Color is Your Parachute, and taken from Myprimetime.com.
Many people dream of a wonderful job or career, but comparatively few actually go and find it.
Statistics are hard to come by, but experts claim that in any given year a third of all workers dream about finding their ideal career, but only a third of those — 10 percent — actually do it. This puts the concept of a dream career in the same boat with New Year’s resolutions.
Why don’t more of us translate our dreams into reality? I’ve found at least three reasons.
Our Dream is Too Broad
If you’re going to change jobs or even careers, something has to beckon you. We may call it a dream, or we may call it a vision. But people’s dreams about an ideal career are often very broad and unfocused.Asked to give their definition of a dream job, for example, most people would say it is a job where you can show up when you want, no deadlines, little or no supervision, lots of time off and high pay. In other words, a job without boundaries.
Well, I hate to say it, but the vision has to be more powerful than that, if it is to make us follow it.
We Don’t Understand What a Job Is
Ask the people you’re having lunch with this week what they think the six parts of any job are. Most can’t name them. They are:Place — where you’ll work
Skills — what you’re asked to use
Field — the profession or industry in which you’ll use those skills
Values — yours and the organization’s
People — who you’ll be working for, with or serving
Money — how much you’ll makeIf you want to find your dream job, you have to first decide what you want in each of those seven parts.
It helps to make a chart. List of all the jobs you’ve ever held across the top. Then list these seven job parts, by title, down the left-hand side.
What were the skills you needed to use in that first job? In the second job? And so on. When you’re finished, choose the skills you used and that you like the most. You’re setting your feet on the path to a truly compelling vision of your ideal job, or career.
We Get Stuck On Negatives
We often are more aware of what we didn’t like about past jobs than what we would like in a future job. Partly, that’s the way we were made: Our senses warn us of danger; we’re keyed to avoid disagreeable situations that threaten our health, mental, emotional or physical well-being.In this case we need to build a bridge between our dislikes and our likes. Try this exercise: Make the framework for the same chart described above, but this time under each heading list only those things you disliked about each job. Then ask yourself what is sort of opposite to each of those.
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“There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.”— George Crane
Here’s an example: Negative: “Too close supervision.” Positive: “I want supervision that carefully explains to me what is wanted, then leaves me the freedom to solve the challenge on my own.”
If you build a bridge from all the negatives about your past jobs to all the positives, you will end up with an excellent description of your dream job.
Now you’ve crafted a dream career, where you know exactly what you’re looking for. And you’re motivated to go find it.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall....
Written by Brandon Sawyer From Myprimetime.comWhat if on Monday, Jeff Probst walked into your office and with a wave of a tiki torch transformed it into the Australian outback?
How long would you survive before your co-workers voted you out of the office? A month? A week? An hour? More important, would you be surprised?
If so, join the rest of the corporate world who have no idea how their colleagues see them.
“They start off as pretty smart people and very attuned,” says Carole Stovall, a psychologist in Washington, D.C. “Then they lose it because the information they’re getting from people around them is skewed. People are telling them what they think the person wants to hear, as opposed to the truth.”
Take Bill Gates. He may seem a self-serving egomaniac now, but he obviously began his career as a very bright individual, extraordinarily aware of his abilities and those of his colleagues. Managers who lose themselves, Stovall says, suffer from a lack of diversity, in both their personal and professional lives. They live in a comfortable routine that isolates them from the real world.
But whether you’re the head of a company or not, feedback from others is essential to personal growth. The more you’re willing to listen, the more likely you’ll maintain healthy relationships with those around you.
Stovall suggests a variety of exercises that can help you see how others view you. From keeping a journal in third person, to opening your social circle to include people from other departments, becoming self-aware isn’t an impossible task.
NRI’s Annandale Office Has Moved...Finally!
After a few false starts, NRI Staffing Resources Annandale and NRI HealthCare Virginia were able to move into their new location on May 3, 2001. The new office is conveniently located in the building next door to their old office! Please note the new address on Page 3.NRI Celebrates 34 Years of Excellence
It ‘s June. That means NRI celebrates another anniversary -- our 34th!To help you celebrate too, NRI will be raising the referral bonus to $34 for every temporary candidate referred after s/he works eighty hours for NRI or any permanent placement candidate that gets placed with one of our clients. Just one way NRI says “Thank You” for being part of our team and part of our success and longevity.
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