“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” We’ve heard of this saying countless times in our lives. For most of us, however, this does not apply.
It is said that a vast majority of people today feel disengaged at their work. It is also said that at any given moment, one out of three individuals are unqualified for their jobs, while one out of four individuals are overqualified for their current jobs.
Winding up in the wrong profession seems to be a surprisingly common experience.
When it comes to finding jobs most suitable for a person, career and personality tests might be a good lead. However, since most of them rely on time-consuming self-report surveys which could be fake, they are not that much reliable.
It’s also debatable whether the results from these tests are meaningful. The popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, for example, has been critiqued for offering a “ridiculously limited and simplified view of human personality.”
So what can help us in finding the profession that suits us? A new study suggests an alternative to the usual career and personality test we take, and that is our Twitter feeds.
More details about this over at Nautilus.
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