2. Checklist for Your Ideal Job
1. Character & Culture Congruency
2. Challenge
3. Variety
4. Positive Environment
5. Balanced Lifestyle
6. Sense of Purpose
7. Remuneration
3. Your Formula for Career Success
The greater the match
between your
preferences and the
requirements of the job,
the more potential for
job satisfaction you have.
4. How to Be Happier & More
Successful in Your Next Job
•Get a Deeper Insight Into
Yourself to understand your
strengths and weaknesses.
•Identify the types of roles that
will allow you to build on those
strengths, and minimize those
weaknesses.
5. Conduct a SWOT Analysis
1. You are most likely to succeed in
your career if you use your
talents to their fullest extent.
2. You also suffer fewer problems if
you know what your weaknesses
are, and if you manage these
weaknesses so that they don't
matter in the work you do.
6. Action Step:
Grab a Pen & 4 Sheets of Paper
Strengths Weaknesses
1. What advantages do you have 1. What tasks do you usually avoid
that others don't have? because you don't feel confident
2. What do you do better than doing them?
anyone else? 2. What will the people around you
3. What do other people see as your see as your weaknesses?
strengths? 3. What skills and training are your
4. Which of your achievements are colleagues doing that you are not?
you most proud of? 4. What are your negative work
5. What values do you believe in? habits?
5. Do you have personality traits that
hold you back in your field?
7. Opportunities Threats
1. How can technology help you? 1. What obstacles do you currently
2. How can you take advantage of face at work?
the current market and the 2. Are any of your colleagues
changes happening within your competing with you for projects or
industry? roles?
3. Are you part of a network? What 3. Is your job (or the demand for the
connections do you have with things you do) changing?
influential people? 4. Does changing technology
4. Are any of your competitors failing threaten your position?
to do something important? If so, 5. Could any of your weaknesses
can you take advantage of their lead to threats?
mistakes?
5. Is there a need in your company
or industry that no one is filling?
6. Do your customers or suppliers
complain about something in your
industry? If so, could you create
an opportunity by offering a
solution?
