Deciding on a Job
Before you rush to apply for a vacancy, it is important to consider what you really want from your employment. Only when you have done so can you effectively decide whether a job is going to meet your needs and is therefore worth applying for.
There are several things you can do to help you determine what is most important for you in a job. The three exercises which follow require you to focus on:
your overall goals and needs, both short-term and long-term
your skills
your work values.
Having done these exercises, you will have a much better idea of what you want from a job, and also what skills and abilities you can bring to it.
The Steps
First Step : What are your overall goals and needs?
2nd Step : What are your skills?
3rd Step : What are your current work values?
Summary
The exercises you have just done will help you to determine:
whether you want to apply for another job, i.e. does your current job meet your short-term goals, needs and work values
whether a position you are interested in applying for meets your goals, needs and work values
what skills and achievements you already have that you can bring to another position.
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