Employability + Meaning

preparing your next meaningful career transition

 

 

 

Individual Coaching Program

 

If we were to go on an adventure to remote and unfamiliar territories, we would probably prepare ourselves physically and mentally, research as much information about those places as possible, and create a travel plan.

Working on our own professional value, and at the same time, being focused on market and labour trends, is a bit like going on an adventure with many unknowns. We need to carefully use our observation skills, both of the changing external environment and of the compound of talents, skills, interests and resources we dispose of: ourselves.

Only after this observation phase, can we start to plan our next moves.

In this program, you will learn how to understand more about you and the emerging variables and the current trends, and how you can put your potential to work, and identify the most feasible and realistic axes of professional development, together with your vocation.

With this program, you will be able to:

• Apply a structured and systematic approach to manage your skills and career development.
• Find opportunities to develop your employability in a way that is uniquely meaningful for you.

The program is intended to be a starting point for the journey towards building your employability full of meaning for you. It’s a step in the direction that is right for you. Although the future, with its unpredictable developments, will continue to be a mystery, and we have a limited ability to determine it, through our actions we can still influence it.

 

The right program if at least one of the following is true for you: 

• You are considering a career change, either within your current organisation or sector or outside them
• You feel the need to create a possible Plan B for yourself
• You feel a kind of lack of meaning in your professional activity
• You wish to plan your path to reach your career goals

Objectives

• Apply a structured and systematic approach to manage your skills and career development.
• Find opportunities to develop your employability in a way that is uniquely meaningful for you.

About Employability

Employability is a relevant concept not only for job seekers but also for employees. It designates the attractiveness of a person in the labour market. And also, the ability of a person to keep their job, or to find another job, within or outside their company or industry.[1] One can act in many ways to develop one's own employability, to name a few, by increasing one's knowledge on a given subject, improving existing skills, learning new ones, or investing in one's professional network.

About Meaningful Work

On average a person works around 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week, 2,000 hours per year. In a lifespan we are talking about 80,000 hours. Since work occupies a considerable part of your time, it is fair to assume that it has a strong impact on the quality of our life, and also on our sense of purpose.[2]

To what extent do these 8 hours a day contribute to your purpose in life?

Steger (2016)[3] defines three levels of meaningful work. They are, in ascending order:

1. A work that has a point or purpose within the organization.
2. A work that is in harmony with meaning and purpose in life or helps build more meaning in life.
3. A work that positively impacts others or the greater good.

Worth to notice, the concept of meaningful work is subjective. What is meaningful work for one person may not be meaningful work for another. Meaning is subjective and intimate. And non-judgeable except by oneself. Notwithstanding these caveats, a sense of purpose and meaning is paramount for our well-being and is, among others, a vital element to feel to be part of a community, including the work community.