Discovering The Prefect Career For You

For many of us, discovering our perfect careers, not jobs but careers, can be likened to the act of fitting together different pictures of a jigsaw puzzle. This is one journey through life that can be enjoyed or frustrating, depending on knowledge about ourselves that we have been able to gather, evaluate and utilise time and time again.



Tentatively, we sometimes have a hunch about what we would love to do or what we really ought to be doing but more often than not, we fail to satisfy that urge from the inside to become the investigator of our own purpose. We all know that when something is investigated and I mean thoroughly, the intention is to discern
some facts, gather information (usually concealed information) and make some sense of it. How do I mean? In trying to investigate our careers for example, we must also scrutinise our interest, those subject areas of concern and significant to us.

Things that arouse our curiosity that we always want to know more of, things which time and time again catch our again catch our attention and naturally become a part of us. This is part of the self-awareness exercise that we have been discussing. Sometimes without realising, we talk about our interest incessantly, read about them, enquire about them and even want to practice them.

Some of these interests may not necessarily satisfy our career needs, but often times just like our values, our interest can be that guiding light, especially when in the dark or lost about what it is we want to achieve in our lives generally.

"However, the interest orientations categories occupation s thus shedding more light on the burdensome duty of finding exactly what it is we are wired up to do!".

Whichever way our interests apply, they are worth identifying particularly in the world of work.

For instance, my love and interest in sports, for the most part tennis, take me to tournaments, make me buy tennis magazines, takes me to tennis related sites and even laughably buy items made to look like or designed from tennis balls, has not in any way influenced my career choice because I haven't made playing tennis my profession neither have I built a career around it, thought it is a major interest of mine.

What I have done, which has helped me a great deal, is to identify other interests of mine that hugely contribute to defining and giving clarity to my career pursuits. What you can do also that I have found very useful is to understand a concept called " interest orientations". There are seven of them and many have confirmed how they have helped them in their personal questions. They're

1. Creating Orientation,
2. Analysing Orientation,
3. Adventuring Orientation,
4. Organising Orientation,
5. Influencing Orientation,
6. Producing Orientation,
7. Helping orientation,

At a glance these interest orientations seen self-explanatory and simple enough to understand but commonly, there is the difficulty of identify where we fit and which interest orientation applies. Again, the ability to make a good judgement on ourselves is questioned and to be honest, we all tens to oversimplify this crucial exercise.

However, the interest orientations categories occupation this shedding more light on the burdensome duty of finding exactly what it is we are wired up to do!