So, you are unhappy in your job, you know it’s wrong for you and you want to know what your ideal job is. To be able to define and then get your ideal job, there are some fundamental questions that you need to be able to answer...

What interests you at work? What motivates you at work? What are your personal and work values? What are your personality preferences and how do they impact on your choice of work? What are your personal strengths and how many transferable skills do you really have? How will your ideal job fit in with your other priorities in life? What are your financial goals for work?

It's quite a challenge to get answers to these questions, and to then put them into a context that will help you actually identify the right job(s) for you. But don't worry as I've developed a unique 9-step process that will enable you to define, identify and then get, your ideal job.

I've outlined the 9 steps below to give you an idea of what's entailed.

Step 1. Identifying your work interests and motivators.
The first step to defining your ideal job is to understand what really interests you, and motivates you, in the world of work. A specially developed online psychometric test is used to accurately identify the key aspects of work that will constitute your ideal job. This test has been developed by chartered psychologists over the last five years and has been successfully used to assist individuals at all levels from undergraduates through to senior managers.

Step 2. Clarifying your work & personal values.
These are the behaviours and beliefs to which you are naturally drawn, and are what make you who you really are. Your ideal job will be one that helps you to express these values every day, and during this step you will identify your top four personal values and top two work values.

Step 3. Understanding your personality preferences.
You will gain an insight into your personality; preferred working styles; how you relate to, and communicate with others and your decision making preferences. You will then be able to ensure any future job allows you to freely work in these preferred ways.

Step 4. How your ideal job fits in with your other priorities in life.
Work, of course, does not take place in isolation from the rest of your life. You will uncover what you want from the other aspects of your life and how they will impact on your ideal job - in areas such as your health, family/friends, personal relationships, fun/hobbies, personal development, physical environment and financial goals.

Step 5. Defining the context of your ideal job
You will also define the context of your ideal job - clarifying what you want in terms of hours worked, job location, job security and how much you want to be paid.

At this stage in the process you will be able to draw up a comprehensive list detailing everything you want from an ideal job, and also listing what you don't want from your ideal job. You will then be able to use this checklist as the basis for quickly establishing whether or not a certain role is right for you.

Step 6. Clarifying your transferable skills.
Defining your ideal job also needs to be grounded in reality, and undergoing a transferable skills audit will give you clarity on the skills you have that can be best used in your ideal job. Experience shows that these key skills often aren't as obvious as they seem!

Step 7. Identifying your strategic career choices.
Knowing what your ideal job is, and being clear on the skills and experiences you have, you will then be able to become clear on exactly what your strategic career choices are at this point in your life. Inevitably, your ideal job will entail making use of your existing or newly developed skills within existing or new industry sectors. For example, you could continue with a career within your existing areas of knowledge and competence, stay where you are in terms of industry sector and organisation and look for a shift in the type of job that you do, carry on with the job you do in a different sector or environment or throw caution to the wind and follow a long-held dream or passion!

At this stage of the process we will come up with between 2 and 5 possible career avenues for you to pursue - all of which will meet your ideal job requirements.

Step 8. A great CV and your Personal Positioning Statement.
You are now in a position to pull everything together and create a great CV. A CV that crisply and concisely articulates your skills and experiences to your future employers in a way that demonstrates that you understand the job that needs to be done, that you fit in with their company culture and that you have the experience and the skills to succeed in the new role. To do this you will also create a personal positioning statement. This is, in effect, a personal "elevator pitch" in which you can start to tell your friends, your network, recruiters and potential employers exactly what job you're looking for, give them a relevant overview of your skills & experiences and tell them why you want to do the job you're looking for. The secret of this stage in the process is to create several different CVs and personal positioning statements, each one consistent with what would be an ideal job for you, but each one subtly different in its job focus.

Step 9. Networking your way to your ideal job.
Finally, with clarity about the type of ideal role you are looking for, we will draw up an effective networking strategy and action plan for you to find your ideal job opportunities.

How It Works
To work through the above steps typically takes 10 hours of work together - delivered through a mixture of telephone and face-to-face (where geographically practical) work, and the process typically takes 2-3 months to complete.

How To Get Started
If you think you would now like to Define Your Ideal Job, your next step is to contact me to arrange a free initial telephone consultation. You can contact me by email by clicking here or you can call me on 01379 873 561. So I can prepare effectively for your free initial consultation, I do ask that you spend 30-minutes filling out a pre-session questionnaire that I will send to you on agreeing our session date and time.

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