One of the best books to help you put your talents into practices is:

Go Put Your Strengths to Work, by Marcus Buckingham

That said …

The keys I’ve found with finding the right job are:
- Do what YOU can uniquely do (Use what you uniquely do best to your competitive advantage)
- Find the job you love, or love the job you’re with (Sometimes you can flex, bend or reshape it)
- Do what you would do for free (Follow your passion)
- Surround yourself with people that lift you
- Follow the people that lift you
- Drive from your life-style
- Expand your capabilities over climb the ladder
- Live your values on the job (So know what your values are)
- Sometimes the best job is the one you have
- Follow the money (Don’t ignore it, find the purpose + passio + profit combo)

Always ask the questions: What problem do I get to work on? Who do I get to work with? What impact do I get to have? Do I trust who I work for?

Belief, Competition, Developer, Maximizer and Significance

Iam currently in the IT industry. Please suggest what would be best suitable job for me?

I have taken the test, and I think i;m best described as Analytic, discipline, empathy, futuristic, learner and significant.

My passion is in the beauty industry, i am not sure if i like the glamorous part of it or is it my passion, but one thing i know is that when i am watching television programs that are to do with beautifying others i get this excitement that i cannot explain.

One of my other passion is to help those who are in need, i feel at my utmost when i help others especially those in need.

What jobs do you think will be best suitable for me, because i am looking at taking up the course in make up artist.

Another way to start the process for finding your strengths is to ask others that know you well, what they think your strengths are. Another revealing approach is to pay attention to your natural thinking, feeling, and doing patterns throughout each day. You can ask simple questions, such as, each hour, what activities did you feel at your best? You can keep narrowing it down, but even getting in the ballpark helps.

If you saw what *everyone* wrote down, and what living their dreams means, I bet you’d see patterns. Another approach is you can ask people you know, living their dreams, whether writing things down helped.

I think there are three key skills that can help
- balancing with emotional intelligence / empathy
- balancing task-focus vs. people-focus
- balancing with situational leadership

I can recommend three books to help you with those skills:
- Dealing with People You Can’t Stand, by Dr. Rick Kirschner
- Emotional Capitalists: The New Leaders by Martyn Newman
- Leadership and the One Minute Manager, by Ken Blanchard

Maria

I recommend reading The E-Myth, by Michael Gerber. It gives you a good framework for thinking through whether you want to work for yourself.

I also recommend reading Go Put Your Strengths to Work by Marcus Buckingham. You can quickly apply your strengths, and do more of what you were born to do, a day at a time.

The main thing to keep in mind is to drive from the life style you want to lead. Don’t make your life style something down the line. The other key is to blance paths between funding your life style, and getting paid to do what you love. Sometimes the trick is to just reshape the job you have into more of what you want. All jobs are like clay, and the nature of work is always evolving.