Is Your Current Fulfilling Your Career Goals and Personal Satisfaction?

updated March 7, 2025

You spend more time at work than anywhere else, so a job satisfying most of your needs is essential. While no job is perfect, it is crucial to be aware of the trade-offs you are making within your job and with your employer.

What Makes a Good Job?

Evaluating the virtues and pitfalls of roles can help you work towards a satisfying career. My research and coaching experience have helped me to identify 8 essential factors that contribute to job satisfaction:

• Compensation: The wages, bonuses, and benefits you receive.

• Job Security: The assurance that you can maintain your current role for the foreseeable future.

• Growth Potential: Opportunities for upward and lateral advancement.

• Challenging Assignments: The ability to do engaging work provides opportunities to learn new skills and expand your capabilities.

• Autonomy: The freedom to decide how tasks are completed and how you manage your time.

• Work-Life Balance: Balancing your mental and physical health while fulfilling your work obligations.

• Sense of Purpose: A feeling that your work matters and is aligned with your values.

• Sense of Belonging: Being valued and accepted for who you are.

Determine What Would Be the Right Job.

The Circle of Career Fulfillment is powerful because it helps you visualize different aspects of your current job and identify areas where you want to see improvements. Once you know where you want to see growth, you can develop an action plan to create your desired change.

Take a moment to reflect on each factor of your job. Rate each based on whether it sucks, is ok, or ideal. Print this wheel out and color in the slots.

• What insights are coming up for you?

• Where do things seem to be off balance?

• Is there a part of the wheel that seems more important to fix?

Narrowing your focus to improving just one area of the wheel can have a positive ripple effect in other areas.

How to Find the Right Job.

Once you have a clear vision of the aspects of your career that you would like to work on, you can develop a career improvement plan. This plan should include specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for each area you want to improve.

Remember, progress is achieved through a series of deliberate, small steps in a specific direction. Frequently, you can improve your current work situation by working with your boss and mentors to reach particular goals. If you don't have a mentor or feel that your boss has competing priorities, working with a coach can be incredibly beneficial.

At Your Path Coaching and Consulting, we specialize in helping individuals develop strategies to gain the skills, experience, and confidence they need to achieve their career goals. We provide personalized executive coaching and career development services designed to help you navigate these challenges.

You may need to leave your current job to secure your ideal job, but before you make a change, ensure you clearly understand what a better job looks like. You can often create a better situation within your current company by clearly communicating what you are looking for and asking them what they need from you to change or improve your current work situation.

Summary

By defining what you do not like about your current job and what your ideal job looks like, you can more clearly take steps to make tomorrow better than today. Leaving one job for another only makes sense if you are progressing toward a better work situation. Define what good looks like, then take deliberate steps towards a better future.

Are you ready to take control of your career path?

Your Path Coaching and Consulting empowers individuals and organizations to reach their full potential.

• Executive Coaching: Guiding leaders in their personal and professional development.

• Career Development: Helping individuals achieve fulfilling careers.

Schedule a complimentary consultation today to explore how we can assist you in achieving your career objectives.

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