How to Find Your Dream Job


I've been doing a lot of studying about happiness, life goals, finding your purpose, and other similar topics to better help myself become a happier person and reach my goals, and to learn how to help others to do the same. 

I'm taking a course from Yale called The Science of Well-being. Here's an excerpt from one of the lectures:

"the more and more signature strengths you use, typically, 
this awesome point around four, 
the more likely it is that you call your job not a job but a calling. 
And so, if you want to find a job that's a calling, 
it might not be a particular thing. 
It might just be finding ways to use 
multiple of your signature strengths at once, which is kind of cool. 
Merely using these things is kind of making you feel like that's your dream job, 
which is pretty cool. 
And so, that is one thing that I 
think we don't think about often when we're looking through a job. 
What we really want to do to get the job that's 
our dream job that's going to give us positive affect, 
job satisfaction, and so on, 
is just pick one in which we can use our signature strengths."

So, why is this important? And what are signature strengths?

As a job seeker or someone who is considering a change in career direction, we ideally want to find our dream job. However, the actual job isn't necessarily the thing - it's how satisfied and happy we feel doing the job. If you can find a job that allows you to use 4 of your signature strengths, you will find that you feel great about the job. The likelihood of feeling like you're doing something that is your calling or that you don't dread going to every Monday increases.

So, signature strengths - that does this mean? 

Here is a link where you can go and do a survey to determine your signature strengths. Signature Strengths Survey provides this free survey for anyone to do and then you will know what top strengths you have and should look to be incorporating into your next job search to go after a job you will love. 

Good luck and let me know if you do the survey and what you found out about yourself. 

Did it change your view on what job you might love? 

Did it show you how to change your strategy in your current job search?




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