Are you wondering whether you should make changes in your career — and life, or stay put? What does the following quiz say about you?
Are you satisfied with your job?
Respond “yes” or “no”:
1. Is your body sending you messages? Do you have lingering colds? Trouble getting up work days?
2. Are you constantly thinking, “I can hardly wait till Friday?”
3. Do you frequently daydream at work?
4. Do you call in sick when you’re not?
5. Have your performance and productivity slipped?
7. Do you have many disagreements with colleagues or superiors?
8. Will leaving the organization enable you to achieve desired goals.
9. Is your work damaging your self confidence, health, or other?
Two or more “yeses” suggest you may be dissatisfied. To nurture your career, act. If you’re convinced a job move is in order, go for it!
Career Transition Tips
– Define and overcome barriers. Describe any blocks that are preventing you from making a move. Examples could be fear of losing a secure income, pension or other benefits; fear that you will lose power, prestige; fear of having to live up to an image, making a mistake, or being embarrassed; not knowing where to begin a new job search; or guilt that change may interfere with relationships.
– Know that you have many exciting options. These include changing departments in the same organization, shifting employers, changing occupational fields, becoming self employed, taking a sabbatical or going back to school for upgrading or retraining.
– Refer to “Questers Dare to Change Your Job and Life.” This groundbreaking best seller shows how to reshape your career while achieving a meaningful, satisfying, and productive life!
Using research conducted with over 45,000 adults, “Questers” blends motivational stories, questionnaires, and guidelines to help you understand how you grow and change through life, where you are in the career and life cycles, and how to create a purposeful, growth-oriented, and fulfilling life.
“Questers” empowers you to manage change. The book helps you understand and manage the feelings that come from your quest for satisfaction and success. It also shows you how to move forward.
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