Confused? How to Find the Right Career Path to a Happy Work Experience
Welcome to my continuing series on tips to be happy with your job.
You’ve just graduated from college and looking for the right job. Or you’ve been working for a while and are not making the progress you want. You’ve spent money educating yourself and time working at a job, and now you need to know, “Am I on the right path?”
How do you find out? In 2001 I discovered a revolutionary tool for measuring individual talents through a book called “Now Discover Your Strengths”. Developed by educational psychologist Donald Clifton, the StrengthsFinder helps you understand what you naturally do well… so instead of trying to improve your “weaknesses”, you can improve your strengths. The updated StrengthsFinder 2.0 is the book you want to buy. It’s consistently one of the hottest selling books on Amazon.
Before you say, “Oh, not ANOTHER assessment!” hear me out. It’s the magic bullet to help individuals realize their natural strengths. It helped me realize my “arranger” strength was the reason I had always been attracted to situations in need of fixing. I loved jumping in to help and I was good at it. Rather than stressing me out, problem solving energized me.
As a wise person once said, “You cannot NOT do what you do best”. The 
StrengthsFinder helped me understand I was already utilizing my strengths, I just didn’t realize why. When working within my strengths, I felt happy in my job.
Identify your natural strengths; it could easily make the difference between being good or great at your job. Order the book, StrengthsFinder 2.0 and then go to the link below to take the assessment.
http://www.strengthsfinder.com
You’ve taken an important first step to understanding your strengths. With this knowledge, you can join the many who are successfully pursuing a career they love.
Join us for our next blog where we will discuss another important tool that will help you discover more about who you are so you can get your career on the right path.