A Simple Exercise for Finding Your Career Sweet Spot

February 25th, 2010

This is going to be short. It’s a simple concept. The  trick is in the execution.

Your career sweet spot, the place where you get the most personal satisfaction and the most material success (position, promotion, cash money) lies at the intersection of the answers to two questions:

A) What do you like doing?

B) What are your most marketable skills?

Simple, right? Coming up with the answers to those questions and finding the common ground is often one of the challenges for my career consulting clients. BUT once they are able to get a clear picture of the common ground, it creates first a sense of relief and then a direction for forward movement.

So before you make a career move or set to work on polishing your resume, do this little exercise and see what you discover. It may surprise you.

Photo courtesy of jimmiehomeschoolmom.

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