How to know if you have a Strengths-Based Career?

Date Posted: 18 October 2012

In the international best-seller, “Now, Discover Your Strengths” by Matcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, it says it is written to start a strengths revolution. It states two assumptions that guide the world’s best managers:

1. Each person’s talents are enduring and unique
2. Each person’s greatest room for growh is in the areas of his or her greatest strengths.

In the book, “The 5 patterns of Extraordinary Careers” by James Citrin and Richard A. Smith, it discovered that extraodrinary executives worked their way up by playing to their strengths and following their passion.

In “Soaring on Your Strengths” by Robin Ryan, one of America’s top career coaches, advocates in the book “one must continually define and promote oneself’s personal brand in order to keep it vibrant and to distinguish oneself in the workplace.” And “how to reinvent oneself into the best that one can possibly be.”

It’s not rocket science to know that it’s important to find the right job, one which capitalises on our strengths. But what is the right job anyway?

“Do What You Are” By Paul D. Tieger and Barbar Barron says that if you are in the right job, you should:

Look forward to going to work

Feel energised (most of the time) by what you do

Feel your contribution is respected and appreciated

Feel proud when describing your work to others

Enjoy and respect the people you work with

Feel optimistic about your future

At Career Strengths Singapore, we believe your career should be one that feeds on your strengths. And a strength-based career will provide the fulfilments as the abovementioned.

We also believe strengths are also only part of the equation in determining your fulfilling career. And this is why we also look into your background, career passion, values and interests to ascertain a more holistic picture about you.