How to Craft a Job You Love

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Wish your job had a little more spice to it? Modern Mentor teaches you how to craft the job you love - without having to update your resume! Just follow these 5 steps. Read the transcript. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter to get more tips to fuel your professional success. Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/ https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/QDTModernMentor https://twitter.com/QDTModernMentor https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-mentor-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. And today's episode is for anyone who feels just a little bit meh on Monday mornings. You're not ready to leave your job, but man, it could use a little more spice. Today, we're going to talk all things job crafting. With books, movies, or music, I'm a tough customer. If I'm not jazzed in
0:40.1	minutes, I'm moving on to the next. There are too many choices for me to stick with something
0:44.6	that is not lighting me up. A job, however, is not a song. It's not so easy to change. But unlike a book
0:52.6	or a movie, which you only see as a finished product, a job is
0:56.8	malleable. You can bend and shape it to your will. The way you do this is through job crafting,
1:02.8	a term coined by Jane Dutton and Amy Viznowski. Job crafting is the act of customizing your job
1:09.0	to better fit your motives, strengths, and passions.
1:12.9	Your job presumably has a formal description, but that description's purpose is to capture
1:17.7	what you need to deliver. Client outcomes, the financial reports, the HR processes. Your job
1:24.2	presumably has a formal description, but that description's purpose is to capture what you need to deliver, client outcomes, financial reports, HR processes, etc.
1:34.5	But how you get that done, the tasks, the activities, the interactions you engage in, this is up to you to mold, as long as you deliver those outcomes.
1:46.3	I used to work in operations management for a logistics company. I had to ensure thousands of items made it onto shelves daily. Many of my peers
1:53.8	did this through a focus on technology and process efficiency, but my strengths and passions
1:59.0	align better to people. And so I achieved success by focusing
2:02.9	on talent, hiring, training, and rewarding them to ensure the same outcomes were achieved. So if your job
2:09.9	has you dreading Monday mornings, here are five steps you can take to craft a job you love
2:14.6	without having to update your resume.
2:19.4	First, decide to act.
2:22.1	Job crafting begins with a choice.
2:25.7	You must choose to recognize that jobs are not jail.
2:28.8	You are not a prisoner to the description on the page.
2:32.6	Every job can be bent, twisted, or molded within its boundaries.
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