A New World for Job Applicants

The job market has changed drastically in the past several years. The process of constantly adjusting your views and beliefs about the job search is becoming more challenging every year. You can no longer rely on one resume to appeal to numerous employers and a wider variety of social media options may put you in a tail-spin. You must constantly be aware of what employers want and how you can best present your value to them.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles now lists 50.000 job descriptions with more being added while some are falling by the wayside. Selecting the best career becomes more challenging when trying to determine if that job will still be there in the next 5 to 10 years. The answer for these critical considerations can be answered with the accurate identification of your job match. When there is no job match, the job candidate is usually just wishing and guessing their way into the workplace. Once you know your job match you are able to identify and target your best career opportunities. Years of workshops have confirmed that only about 15% of attendees are now engaged in jobs they thought they would be doing when they graduated from high school or college. The vast majority have changed their career direction due to a lack of satisfaction or success in their work. Observation of life and relationships has reveled substantial numbers of people who left a higher level of employment to find success and happiness in what some would consider a lower level job. Likewise there have been those who realize late in life that if they would have had better information and more insight they could have reached for higher goals and chosen work which could have elevated them to a more rewarding career.

Identifying a career where you are well suited has gone from the old guess and hope pattern of years past to a more certain approach which provides the accuracy of job match and eliminates the guessing game. You are now able to define the needs of the job and match them to the attributes that you bring to the workplace very quickly. The bottom line for career selection is to identify the opportunities where you can use your natural attributes and talents to match the needs of the career and then compete favorably in today's labor market.

The identification of jobs where you are well matched is now easy and inexpensive. You can do this by using a leading edge survey system which accurately measures your competencies and then converts them to the job function scales. These job functions are the common denominator for jobs and enable you to present your attributes to an employer relative to those activities that are needed in the job. It is important to remember that your productivity will be built around your strengths. Just as taller people have an advantage in playing basketball, you now have the opportunity to pick the "right game" that will lead you to your best career options.

The Professionally You™ survey will identify your natural attributes and correlate them to the job functions where your performance can be predicted and developed. The visual graphics of the competencies matrix and the summary worksheet will immediately highlight your natural assets and help you identify good careers and convince employers that you can bring value to their business. The Professionally You™ Report will offer career direction, coaching and training recommendations that can put your career on the fast track.

Awareness of your strengths and limitations is the first step in developing your Emotional Intelligence (E.Q.) which is now considered to be twice as important as both technical knowledge and IQ in determining your future success and your value to employers.