So, job seekers, what are you great at? What are you passionate about? Know these and you’ll start to identify the areas of your greatest performance. To be successful today, you must work in areas that match your talents (you are great at it) and activate your passions (you love doing it). This requires self-awareness; this requires that you spend some time understanding yourself.
As I travel and work with managers and employees, I find that most do not know themselves well – they are unaware of what they are great at and what activates their passions. The result is they work in jobs they find to be boring, uninspiring and disengaging. The more disconnected they become from their work, the more their performance (and the performance of the organization) suffers. So take control. Know yourself well; know which jobs play to your strengths, which jobs ignite your passions and which jobs activate your best performance. Then, if job hunting, apply for jobs that meet these criteria. Stay focused on jobs that play to your strengths because these are the areas in which you are most competitive. Play to your strengths and then be sure the employment world knows what you are great at. Great employees are always in demand.
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