Stick to Your Sweet Spot

If you have been working for quite a while now in the Singapore jobs market, you know for sure what you’re good at and what your weaknesses are. Naturally, you’d veer away from jobs that will require you to exercise your seemingly non-existent skills. But what if you were offered a high level job, but you’d have to leave your sweet spot and try much harder to do something you’re not good at?

What is the sweet spot anyway? It is where your strengths, weaknesses, differences and passions all seem to meet in a perfect point. As a result, you work much more excellently, you perform better, you excel without much effort, and you are happy. Most of the time, maybe because of circumstance but usually due to lack of career planning, executives end up in jobs that are far away from their sweet spot and conduct a Singapore job search aimlessly. As a result, professionals are burnt out and tired of coming and going to the office.

So how can you make sure that your career path is on the right track, that is, along the lines of your sweet spot? How can you guarantee yourself and your career life that you will never be in the dilemma of accepting an irresistible offer of working a high-paying and high-level position that you know will not make you happy?

• Go ahead and learn, but go back to your sweet spot. Sure, you need to get out of your comfort zone from time to time, just so that you can learn and stretch your limits, but that does not mean that you need to spend majority of your time outside of your sweet spot.
• Stay humble. Your ego will definitely be boosted if you’re offered a job that is one or two notches higher than your current position, both in terms of leadership position and of salary or compensation. The usual response would be to accept the offer, but if you think about it, doing so may even be a detour from the right career path. Whenever you are presented with such an opportunity, learn to take a step back and look at the whole picture, in relation to the career direction that suits your skills, expertise and competence. Will taking an attractive job offer help in accelerating your way to the top? Is it really all about position? Set your ego aside and study your options well.

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