To create success and happiness in your everyday life, your ability to use your talents will be important. Research shows that, when we have our talents in play, we experience that our work is meaningful while at the same time creating the best results.
The lates global satisfaction measuremenets that Gallup does, shows that only 17% of the workforce goes to work and feel that they use at least 2 of their talents to solve their work assignments. The number has been decreasing the last year and shows that many people are having a hard time finding happiness and satisfaction in the workplace.
That is the most important reasoning for you knowing your talents. It gives you insight into finding a meaningful job.
You can get to know your talents through a talent test.
The talent test shows you where you are strong, motivated and engaged. You get a personal description of what characterizes your talents. Your unique combination of talents shows where you have something special to contribute with and what assignments you will find easy to work with. A talent test gives you a language as to what you are best at and what you cannot stop doing.
Most people tell us this after a talent test: I knew intuitively, that this is where I am best – I just couldn’t find the words for it. We have completed many talent tests where we afterwards have helped formulate the sum of the top talents. As people we are not only one talent, we combine them in relation to what gives the most meaning.
In connection with job searching we worked with these 2 examples:
A person with the talents: connecting, innovative, targeted, charming, responsible and inclusive as top 6, chose to describe themselves as
“With me, you get a very social employee who finds joy in including. I’m good at coming up with new opportunities and good innovative ideas, because I think alot of the best solution to a given problem, but also wish to learn new things constantly. Personally I am very targeted and focused, I know where I want to go, and I gladly take responsibility for things underway. I enjoy responsibility”
A person with the talents: trouble-shooting, positive, researching, inquiring, targeted and analyzing as their top 6, chose to describe themselves as
“It is natural for me to quickly get an overview. I do this by asking questions to understand – This makes it easier for me to make decisions on solutions, that are based on a more secure foundation”.
The wish to describe your talents in order for a stranger to quickly get an overview of who you are, not professionally, but in the way you manage and use your subject knowledge. Then it will become easier to decide whether there is a fit between the person and job role.