Choosing your Right Fit Job

Find Your Right-Fit Job: A Worksheet

Find your right-fit job

Work through the first three parts once to get clear on what you offer and what you want. Then use the last part to score every opportunity you come across.

What skills you bring to the table

Your strengths, your tools, and the personal traits behind your best work.

Job functionality skills

What are the things you’re good at doing that help you achieve your core responsibilities at work?

Technical skills

What tools do you know how to use that help you do your job even better?

Soft skills

What are personal attributes that help you do your job even better?

What responsibilities you want

Keep, grow, and let go. Decide what your next role’s workload should look like.

Daily responsibilities

What are things from your previous roles that you would be happy to keep doing or want to do more of?

Growth opportunities

What are things you haven’t done in the past but would like to start doing or grow into?

Responsibilities to avoid

What are tasks you would prefer to never do again, or want less of, in your next job?

What kind of company do you want to work for?

Define the practical details and the values that make a workplace feel right.

Location

Benefits

Industries

Size

Values

Assessing opportunities to find the right fit

Score each statement for a specific job. Print or duplicate this page for every role you evaluate.

The role

The day-to-day responsibilities align with what I want to be doing
The role would help me grow in ways I’m excited about
The role doesn’t involve too many things I’d like to avoid
The goals of the role sound interesting

The company

You’re excited about the mission
The location is on my list
You’re interested in the industry
The size is right
The company offers a majority of the benefits I’m looking for
People like working there (Glassdoor reviews)
The company culture aligns with the values I care about
The company seems to be doing well financially

My skills

You feel confident you can do that job
You’ve exhibited most of the job functionality skills they’re looking for
You’ve exhibited most of the technical skills they’re looking for
You have most of the soft skills they’re looking for, OR your soft skills make you an even stronger candidate
Based on what you’ve done in the past, you think you can help the company reach its goals

Gut feeling

You’re truly excited about this role
You would be proud to work for this company
You think you can help them succeed
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Score the statements above to see how well this opportunity fits.

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