| Find your Ideal Career Many people are in the wrong job and don't even know it. But it shows. Despite training and experience, people continue to struggle with the daily grind. They get stressed out constantly. They feel obligated to think and act in ways that don't come naturally to them. Productivity falters. The pressure often builds into a surly attitude that wins no friends around the water cooler. Nothing is wrong with these people and nothing is wrong with their jobs. Like a poorly matched couple, "they're just not right for each other." For better work and real on-the-job happiness, there needs to be a perfect fit of person and position. Your SSI Career Planner will help you make the match. Our process evaluates your strengths, needs and interests on the job to create a list of career paths that are best suited for you. With a wealth of objective information about you to serve as a guide, you can narrow down the possibilities further to a job that feels right. Your ideal career is out there, waiting for you to make it great. The SSI Career Planner is your connection. Boost your Productivity Learn to utilize your strengths, rather than work against them, and your productivity will soar. The SSI Career Planner is your guide. It will identify and describe your personal strengths, clearing the path for you to capitalize on them in your work. Let's explore strengths some more. Imagine a problem comes up in your work. How do you take action? You might become thoughtful and cautious or you might tackle the situation assertively. You might rely on your powers of persuasion or give direct orders. Go it alone or get help. The way you tend to respond – your natural, authentic manner of working – forms your strengths. If your strengths can find expression in your work environment, you will watch your productivity climb even as your work demands less effort. But first, you need to identify your strengths with your SSI Career Planner. Reduce Stress Boosting productivity and reducing stress go hand-in-hand. Here's how: when stress goes down, productivity grows. It follows that improved productivity happens when you improve aspects of your work environment that create stress in you. Again, you do this with your SSI Career Planner. It describes your strengths plus your on-the-job needs and ties these in with how to recognize stress and work your way out of it. Let's look at the process in more detail now. We all have needs. From a career perspective, a need is an aspect of your work environment that allows your strengths to flourish. If your strength were a tendency to weigh options carefully, you would need a work environment that requires no snap decisions. If your strength lay in motivating and leading others, you would need a work environment that doesn't make you work alone. In a work environment where your needs go unmet, you feel obliged to think and act in ways that run counter to your strengths – such as making snap judgments when you need time to think. Stress builds and the quality and reliability of your work suffer. Your SSI Career Planner will help you recognize when you're falling into the stress trap. Understanding the cause of your stress will bring you a lot closer to reducing it, permanently. Even better, your SSI Career Planner will describe exactly how you need to behave to work your way out of stress. What Next? Find out what you get with your SSI Career Planner. |