Monday, October 01, 2007

Job-hunting - the best self-reflection tool

If there is a period when I learned most about myself, it certainly was last couple of months starting from a cool feedback session with Mairi and Majken in a café in Milano city center ending now as I am getting into my current job.

The whole job-hunting period, applications I wrote, interviews and assessment centers I went through, helped me incredibly to define things that are important for me in my work life:
  • Environment encouraging pro-activity and initiative
  • Clear leadership with a concrete vision where I can relate to and through which I understand my contribution
  • Open communication and ongoing feedback in all directions (not only downwards but also upwards)
  • Holistic projects rather than individual unrelated tasks
  • Possibility to switch between various tasks to be able to keep focused
I learned that I need a balance between open-minded communicative people and meaningful tasks with a clear responsibility and outcome.

1 Comments:

At Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:48:00 PM, Sue said...

Job hunting is something I have gone through the last weeks as well...well, it was more to take a decision between sth I always "dreamd" of, and sth new, that might be so interesting as well...what I had to ask myself is: Where do I see myself in 10 years? And I think I know now.but still, I am hard on deciding...Regula wrote a cool post about that as well...:_)

 

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