What's Your Job Attitude?

Our attitude is the way we think and behave. Our workplace is a vibrant mix of personalities, and therefore attitudes. This can be pretty hard to navigate on a personal level, but think about co-ordinating all of these differences for the benefit of a productive business? Hard.

Do you have a definitive job attitude? What about your co-workers, is there a synergy in your office or place of work. What do your directors & CEO's think about you and your performance? Does anyone particular attitude stand out? There are typically four different styles of ‘Job Attitude’ which is yours?

I LOVE my job!

Do you live and breathe work? Read trade journals or industry news voraciously? Never put the blackberry down or leave a mail unanswered? Are your friends all in the same trade? You’d think this would make you the ULTIMATE employee, right?

Think again. With your total submersion into your job, and by making it your passion – you are not seeing the bigger picture. To be truly on the ball, you need to keep your eyes wide open. Think of all the further networking opportunities you are missing by narrowing your business circle of ‘friends’. It’s a fact that a lot of referrals come from our competitors or those who are seen to be. You think you will benefit by being so intensely work orientated. In fact – it actually makes you quite dull, and by minimising your personal opportunities, you are minimising work related ones also.

I DO my job!

You turn up, you get it done, you draw the check. It’s a means to an end. You are a conscientious worker and are paying your dues. That’s enough, right?

Wrong. There is always room for more. There is no need to become obsessed, but it pays to specialise, or look at a bit of self growth or learning opportunities within your field. You never know what is ‘round the corner in this current climate. Show w abit of extra enthusiasm and it could mean the difference in having a job , or NOT having a job.

I HATE my job!

It doesn’t matter at what level of career you are at. Critiquing, complaining, yelling out orders like there’s no tomorrow. Is this you? Or your boss? You often wonder why they even bother turning up, or more to the point – why they are allowed to.

If you are like this, you are using up an immense amount of energy in your daily rants and tension. You’ll be missing opportunities left right and centre with your targeted poison spitting and hatred of all things work. Life really is too short.

Job? What Job?

You probably wouldn’t notice your colleague who has this job attitude. That’s because they are very rarely around. They have rung in sick, or – when they are there, are chatting in the corridor, holding court at the water cooler or smoking outside. Anything except actually, you know, working.

Some people don’t want opportunities, even when they are staring them in the face. Often, they simply can’t be bothered, or rather let someone else do the hard work for them. But this attitude will never reap reward. Potential is often buried by lack of sensitivity and basic care for colleagues.

The likelihood is that you may wear all of these attitude ‘hats’ at one point or another. You might want to assess how frequently you wear each one, and make a balance. Be honest with yourself. And it would help if you would be transparent of your job attitude when making a resume or when you're interviewed by recruitment agencies. Which attitude, or combination of, would you rather work alongside? Which combination would your boss rather have working for them? Take a minute to consider your working attitude. It might also be a good time to spruce up that resume, it’ll help you consider how you present yourself to others and make a clear statement on who you are, and your own, very unique ‘Job attitude’

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