What do you like?

This week's career competency concerns your career interests and your personality traits:

"I know what I both like and dislike in work"
Since so many of the 27 career competencies are related, this one primarily speaks to understanding what you enjoy doing and not doing at work. (Additional factors that could influence these feelings include: the size of the firm, industry, culture, and the people you might work with). Your motivated skills, your strongest abilities and skills, and your pattern of major achievements (addressed in prior blog posts) all speak to our likes and dislikes. Each one of us have certain work tasks we must do, but also have tasks we generally enjoy - maybe even look forward to- as well as those we lose ourselves in.

What do you think of when you read this??

I believe the best way to assess yourself on this competency is to ask yourself the BIG IDEA question: what is my visualization of my perfect job and place?

John Holland's long-standing career theory - called the trait-and-factor-theory- and the theory which most interest inventories are based on posits that one's career interests are related to the personality traits exhibited by the people who are employed in that occupation. What do you think?

Lots to ponder....next post's competency: what do you want to do in the next 10 years?