Best Jobs For You - How to Match Your Personality to Your Career

August 2nd, 2008

If you’re working just for the money, you’re in the wrong job.

Why is it that one man or woman’s job search produces a dream career while another’s turns out to be a nightmare? The often overlooked reason is personality mismatches with the chosen career.

If you want to find the right career, firstyou must look inwardly and identify your personality traits. If the career you are thinking about matches your character analysis, you’ve hit the jackpot. The result? The best job in the world, right in your own back pocket.

Too many artists and musicians were steered into accounting jobs. Too many potential athletes are laying concrete. Are you in the right job for your personality?

If you’re living a spiritual lifestyle and you want practical career guidance in finding the career your Soul longs for, then let’s make sure you are on the right track.

I will show you how to find the job that best matches your personality.

Let me give you an example of a big mismatch and perhaps it will seem familiar to you. One of the worst jobs I ever had was when I desperately needed a job to help support my marriage and baby. My cousin encouraged me to apply at her manufacturing, assembly-line-type company in North Hollywood, California.

The pay wasn’t very good. I was standing for very long periods of time and the work never changed. The reason this was not the best job for me was because my personality and the position were mismatched. They needed someone who wanted and enjoyed repetitive, quiet work and I thought it was akin to jail.

If I’d only known my own needs before I took that job, I would have chosen better. We do better when we know better. What I really needed from any job was an exciting career that would not add to my family problems.

This job was a total mismatch because:

I missed my baby and felt guilty for leaving her with a baby sitter. This job pulled me away from home for nine hours a day.

I love people and am quite a talker. Those I worked with were great, but we were encouraged to work quickly and quietly. I needed regular social interaction.

I am naturally curious and like to try new things. Assembly line work at this company only provided repetitive work. I thought I would go crazy!

After only working one month, I quit and began a job search for one that better matched my personality.

It’s imperative that if you are going to find work you love, that you define your own personality and look for the spiritual gifts (these would be skills, talents, values, interests and hobbies) you were born with. Once you know this information you can go out and get the career of your dreams.

Begin with these simple questions:

Which do I prefer, mental work or physical work?

Which do I prefer, working indoors or out?

Would I rather work alongside others in a group effort, or work alone?

When you answer these 3 simple questions, you will have begun the journey of Discovering Your Life’s Work. Why would a “social butterfly” work at night in a back room alone? Why would an insomniac work days? Why would an idea person pull weeds?

The journey of Discovering Your Life’s Work will be thrilling and life-fulfilling. Begin by asking yourself those 3 questions and start a good business plan. The career match for your personality is just around the corner.

For updates on how to find your best career/personality match, go to Life’s Work Career

For further information on the Spiritual application of this subject go to Applying Spiritual Principles

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Certified Behavioral Therapist and Spiritual Career Counselor, Kathi Calahan is “The Idea Queen” and “Go-To Person” for solutions to your everyday problems. Using the principles of spirituality, she will help you find the work best suited to your personality and Soul’s desire.

Her background includes teaching at two different California community colleges, a business representative at the Camp Verde Chamber of Commerce and for many years developed her spiritual side by working as a Professional Psychic.

Helping you discover your Life’s Work is done through her company, Finding God - Practical and Spiritual Solutions to Everyday Problems.
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Best Online Jobs

July 27th, 2008

The best online jobs are disappearing quickly but if you read this article I’ll reveal a proven way that you can be making money with your internet marketing skills as soon as today. If you need a substantial income fast or you just want to quit the job you have now then this is for you.

First why are the best online jobs disappearing?

It’s quite simple. There is a glut of personnel willing to work for a pittance in low income countries like India and Romania. Online marketers are hiring but the best jobs online are now being paid out at third world rates.

So if you’re looking for a job your chances of getting a good paying online job are getting slimmer all the time. But there is a solution.

I’m about to reveal an occupation where people just like you are making $500 and more often on their first day out. Better still if you’ve been studying online marketing for 3 months or more you already have all the training you need to get started in what I believe is the best “online job” anywhere today.

First let me tell you what it’s not.

It doesn’t involve multi level marketing, online surveys, data entry, article writing, search engine submission or any other of those crazy internet schemes where you put in hours upon hours of work and the check never arrives.

Also with this occupation you get to work your own hours and you can get paid before you do any real work.

What is it?

Put simply you work as an online marketing consultant for businesses in your local area.

Now think about this. You have no costs or overhead…you can do the work from home.

You have a town full of small business owners who desperately need someone like you who can help them increase their sales and profits by integrating their online and offline marketing.

You’re already an expert. If you’ve spent more than 3 months studying online marketing then you have all the skill you need to have the average small business owner thinking you’re an online marketing genius.

And you can get started literally today.

All you do is walk into the small privately owned businesses in your local area and get into a casual conversation about their internet marketing.

Ask them if they have a website and how it’s doing? Ask them if they’re actually getting any sales or prospects coming to them from their online marketing.

Ask them if they use automated emails to follow up with their prospects and clients to increase sales.

If you do this you will get business owners excited. And from there it’s just a matter of charging them to help them with their marketing.

You can charge from $1,000 to $5,000 to put up a simple 3 or 4 page website for a business (many businesses are used to paying far more than this). You can also charge an ongoing fee of $50 to $500+ for maintaining the site.

You can charge from $500 to $2,500 or more to set up an email autoresponder series through a service like Aweber to follow up with their prospects and clients making special offers and discounts and turning those contact details into real cash profits.

The best part of this job is that you will be genuinely helping the small business owners you work with.

You’ll be making them some serious profits and they’ll be thrilled to hire you over and over. And because you’re supplying such incredible value you can make a substantial amount of money for every hour you work.

It’s impossible to imagine a better online job.

Andrew Cavanagh is an online marketing pioneer with over 25 years experience in offline business. He is the author of the special report: Offline Gold For The Online Marketer which reveals how you can make money fast selling your online marketing skills to brick and mortar business owners.

Andrew’s Offline Gold Audio reveals how you can walk into a brick and mortar business and walk out with a check in your pocket for $500, $1,000, $1,500 or more. You can download this 68 minute audio instantly for free at Offline Gold Audio Giveaway

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