Thinking about a career change? Trying to figure out the type of work that will suit you best? The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan provides access to a job crafting exercise to help you make the most of your life at work.
With the exception of the tools offered by Career Planning and Placement, these assessments are free and available online.
The Job Crafting Exercise: A tool to help you make the most of your life at work
The Job Crafting Exercise is a self-development tool created by researchers from the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the Ross School of Business. The exercise helps you diagnose new ways of redesigning your job to be more engaging and fulfilling. To do this, it asks you to represent your job in a new, visual way by using colorful stickers to create a diagram of a redesigned version of your job. This diagram serves as a visual image of opportunities for how you can create a better fit between the tasks you do on a daily basis and your motives, strengths, and passions. After doing the Job Crafting Exercise, people are often surprised by the eye-opening insights, creative ideas for improving their work life, and new found positive attitude toward their job that the tool helped them generate.
