The Best Way to Job Search
Where should you be conducting your job search? Nope, it’s not in the outside world to begin with. Initially, there needs to be an internal job-search. Your first question needs to be: “what gives me joy?”. This is NOT cosmic waffle. This is a genuinely valuable question considering that you will be spending around a 3rd of your life engaging these chosen tasks.
Job Search: The short cut?
Anyone who suggests that you should ask what you want to earn first is way off the mark. Bear in mind it is possible to be earn all sorts of wages in every sector. Begin with the right way of earning a wage for you, and then, you can upscale financially. Once you have chosen you enjoyable task then you can choose your income strand. There are those who can work to earn to live. Most humans are seeking a value-filled and meaningful way of earning their living. Had I taken a little time to look inside, a little earlier, I might have take the shortcut to the job I love. Had I taken this route through my job search, I might have been able to be more use to the world, a little more swiftly.
A Job That Gives You Joy
So what is the process of finding ‘the thing that gives you joy’? It is not a question we are often tasked with, and thus, it can be difficult to know where to seek the answer. It is also important to learn how to hear that answer when it appears. This is a reflective process: it is a quiet process. This is a you-time process where you can begin to hear the quiet voice. Value this process. The bottom line is that nobody else is going to do it for you. Consider your learning style: If you are ‘visual, then, get a huge piece of paper and mind-map the roles and experiences that gave you joy in the past. If you are kinaesthetic, get on your bike, or put on your running shoes, take yourself to a place of beauty, and play with the places in your mind that brought you pleasure throughout your life. If you love words, do’ the list’ (a big list!), or, show up and journal. If you love words then do the writing that will elicit the words that encompass those experiences of joy. Here you are not seeking a job title, here, you are seeking to access the somatic experiences that have nourished you in past lives.
The Key
Often it is a thread from way back in your childhood that holds the key. For me it was Team Leadership with Prince’s Trust Volunteers that provided the joy I had even seeking ever since. When I stepped into the career coaching zone I realised what it was that I had been missing. When clients came to me with a total blindness to their own brilliances, I was reminded of the joy that past role. It was twenty years since PTV had given me that enjoyment: Watching young people begin to recognise that they brought so much more to life than they ever knew. Witnessing their realisation that they could gain so much more from life than they had ever anticipated. Watching them step right into their power and thus be able to do amazing things out in the world, was more than fulfilling. Within career coaching, here I was, back in the reciprocal buzz again. This was the place where my passion was of real service to others. Identify the things that have given you joy and you can harness those. Identify the things that gave you a buzz in the past and then you can begin to see what roles encompass those aspects. This is the way to attend to your job search.