August 2022
Beginner
272 pages
4h 56m
English
Content preview from Don't Call It Quits: Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Love
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CHAPTER 7
RESHAPE YOUR ROLE
TAILOR YOUR WORK TO YOUR SKILLS AND INTERESTS THROUGH JOB CRAFTING
I’d been fascinated by the idea of job crafting ever since I interviewed Yale School of Management professor Amy Wrzesniewski for an Insider story in 2015.1 Wrzesniewski told me then that job crafting should always be your first step when you’re thinking about quitting. That’s because, she said, one of two things will inevitably happen. Either you’ll successfully reshape your role so that you no longer want to quit, or the process of job crafting will help you identify what you really want out of your career and you can target your job search accordingly. ...