Over the last 12months – I can’t believe quite how fast the year has passed – I have been working in positions and jobs that have relied heavily on my weakness’s. Performance in these jobs is dependent on attention to detail, number crunching and occasional forays into the world of people for information or feedback. I am great at getting information – in any of those psychometric measures I come out as the “resource investigator” – I like people, love networks and just happily understand people. Physio was a career that allowed me to use these strengths, but equally after a while was a little dull as it was constrained by the role defined by your job title. A case of always the “bridesmaid and never the bride” when it came to decision making and influence.
What I am wondering is whether it is good to focus on improving your weakness by taking certain roles – or is it better more fulfilling to pursue posts that hook into your strengths, with a little bit of the stuff that you are not so good at?
Unsurprisingly I think it is a matter of balance – and possibly what I have done is take roles where the tasks that require my strengths are few and those that require my weaknesses all to frequently occur.
So where is it that I will find a job that allows me to use my strengths and dabble in areas of weakness – or is it that I have to push through all of the weakness orientated jobs to get to the one that has both. I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that this is not the answer.
But then what to do……. advice required dear readers!
