The importance of job satisfaction

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How important is your job to you? With work, family and other life commitments, you could feel you are too busy to even answer the question, but it is well worth considering

Character is destiny
The work you do impacts everything else you do in life. Not only does it enable you to earn the money you need to provide for yourself and your family, take a holiday, buy a house... a job also allows you to feel you are part of something.
It gives you the opportunity to use your skills and education to develop your talents in the field you have chosen. It enables you to grow personally, spiritually and creatively.
Jobs transform lives because they empower individuals – and career success stories always inspire. People who have moved through the ranks in a career, or have taken the lessons learnt in a low-paid job and applied them to a much greater challenge, are role models for us all. Ultimately, jobs define character and that shapes our destiny.

Tapping talent
How do you go about finding and getting the dream job? It is not always easy. You need to do some soul-searching, challenge assumptions and be willing to take risks.
Recruitment agencies can help. The REC – the Recruitment & Employment Confederation – is the professional body for the UK's recruitment industry, representing 3,242 companies that have branches across all regions of the UK and a further 7,020 individual members via its Institute of Recruitment Professionals.
From humble beginnings after the Great Depression, it has evolved and expanded over the decades to become the powerbase of a £28.7bn industry.
Each year recruiters place more than 630,000 people into a permanent job. And on any given day during the past year, 1.15 million people were working on a temporary or contract assignment they secured via a recruitment agency.
Says Kevin Green, REC chief executive: "Recruiters empower people to make important choices about where and how they work. They are highly skilled in spotting potential and matching skills with professions. Finding a job you love and that works for you is transformative – work-life balance is vital in ensuring success in the workplace and happiness at home.
"The recruitment industry fuels the UK jobs market. For businesses, getting the right people isn't always easy. Recruiters are here because good people transform business and the right jobs transform lives."

Global opportunities: plotting a career path
Some people choose to stay in a company for many years, and that is great. But in the modern working world it is far more likely that you will change employers several times and even swap industries once or twice in your life. This can, and should, be an opportunity, not only to gain experience, but to explore the range of your talents and find new sides to your personal make-up.
The job market is like an atlas: global, open, complex. A recruitment agency can help you steer a path through the difficult process of preparing yourself for interviews and for a new career. They can also help you fit work around other commitments in your life.

Why work matters
A YouGov poll of 2,040 adults carried out on behalf of the REC found that people ranked "what to do as a job" as an even more important life decision than choosing where to live, when to start a family and when to get married.
The same survey found that 81 per cent of the interviewees considered salary and benefits to be the most important consideration. That is hardly a surprise but 80 per cent also said that "doing something I enjoy" was vital.
Opportunities for career progression and location also ranked highly – as did work-life balance. But work and life need not pull in opposite directions. A rewarding, meaningful job brings with it self-esteem, social life and health – it is a key to happiness within and beyond the workplace.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/lifestyle/finding-the-right-job/11874140/job-satisfaction.html