Poor Job-Fit

The most likely reason you are reading this blog would be that you are dissatisfied with your current job or are already looking for a job change. What is that a job means to you describes a lot about how you treat your job.  Most of us spend almost fifty percent of our lives on the job and often dissatisfied. So, why is it that you are dissatisfied with your job?

What is a Job-Fit?

A job-fit is a match between the organization and employee. Elaborating it, I mean that like people organizations also have personalities which need to be more or less compatible. In simple language, the job that you do should be matching your emotional, physical, psychological needs. Therefore, Job-fit is an assessment to be taken up on the side of both your employer and you for increasing the quality of life and minimize psychological burnout.

What could turn fatal?

To explain further let us take an example; Among the various types of personalities, you are a person who is social. You are most likely empathetic, helpful, kind and friendly, You enjoy socializing with people or helping others and would be best suited for a teacher or caregiver. But what if you are doing the job as a Computer programmer? You would invariably be demotivated, stressed, depressed or even think of ending your life.

There are many reasons why a poor job fit would result in poor psychosocial functioning. You would be demotivated not only with your work but also your entire life in general. A person who is demotivated will always be low on energy, lose his sleep at night, will not be interested to help others, turn hostile and severe depression.

Finding a meaning in your job

Earning a living is just one reason to continue doing your job for the many other reasons. Firstly, A job should give you an Identity, and if that identity does not match your concept of who you think you are, it will create a crisis for you. Apart from the self Identity, there is also social Identity i.e; what people think of you as a person. When these Identities are in synchrony you experience satisfaction from life and are motivated to contribute more. Secondly, As already mentioned a normal person spends almost fifty percent of his time or rather life on his job. It is essential that this job gives you happiness and enhance your life quality. If you are dissatisfied or unhappy with your job, it is equal to wasting fifty percent of your life.

To summarise, We are saying that it is too much loss!

Not all of us know or would ever know what our calling in life is but we should seek help to get the career assessment done so that we could work on something that gives us happiness and in turn we also create great work.

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