What Are Careers That Don’t Suck?
CareersThatDontSuck.com is a career and job search management resource for jobseekers and working professionals at all stages of their careers–from new job market entrants to those looking to land their first management jobs to those looking to change their current careers. CareersThatDontSuck.com provides career coaching and advice, profiles of careers that don’t suck (careers that are a bit off the beaten path), job listings, and timely information on all things career-related.
How Can CareersThatDontSuck.com Help With Your Career and Job Search?
CareersThatDontSuck.com helps you identify the most interesting and fulfilling jobs available in the market today, learn about current trends, and map out your plan to build careers that don’t suck. Resources found here will help you jumpstart your current career, find the jobs, prepare for interviews, improve your chances of being hired, and most importantly, build careers that don’t suck.
CareersThatDontSuck.com is not a link farm. Most of the services listed here are provided by us; the others are services, products and promotions that we have vetted and found to actually be effective in your job search.
Take advantage of Careers That Don’t Suck’s great features, including:
- Career Coaching (Work with a professional career coach to achieve your career goals)
- Newsletters (Check out our great newsletters!)
- Career profiles (Learn about new jobs in new industries, and old jobs done in a new way)
- Job Search (Search classifieds, job boards, career sites, recruiter and company websites in one place)
- Networking Group (Join the Careersthatdontsuck Careers Changers’ Group)
- Job Search Help (Job search tools, resume help, insider information)
- Career Advice (Ask Miss Cellanea our job and career search expert)
- Job Market Facts & Trends
- Podcasts
- Articles
How Do We Determine Which Careers Don’t Suck?
We use our proprietary WorkYourWay Index. The index measures the Five Factors of Career Satisfaction
- Each factor rates the career or job on a scale of 0-10.
- For all except the RoadBlock Factor, “10″ is best and “0″ is worst.
- For the RoadBlock Factor, “0″ indicates no significant barriers to entry–low education/experience requirements, lots of available jobs. A “10″ indicates high barriers to entry–stiff education/experience requirments, few jobs available.
- The LiveWell and PayTheBills Factors are weighed more heavily than the others since working conditions and terms are the most important reasons people give for selecting a job or career.
The Factors Explained:
LiveWell Factor:
- Measures stress, work environment, work hours and perks
- 0-10: Extremely stressful or dangerous conditions, no perks, crazy 1st-yr medical resident hours; is very low stress, fun, safe environment, amazing perks, very flexible hours
PayTheBills Factor:
- Measures salary, bonuses and benefits
- 0-10: Where “10″ is pay near poverty line, no benefits or bonus; “10″ is Top exec pay, excellent benefits, generous bonus
RoadBlock Factor:
- Measures barriers to entry–education, experience, exclusivity, job availability and job growth
- 0-10: Where “10″ is Few/no roadblocks; “0″ is tough education, experience requirements, few available jobs, very hard to break in
Star Factor:
- Measures likelihood job will lead to top executive or CEO (or to fame in some cases)
- 0-10: Where “0″ is No path to the top; “10″ is Fast-track to CEO
GoodWorks Factor:
- Measures whether the work or job itself delivers a social benefit (improving education, feeding the homeless, finding adoptive parents)
- 0-10: Where “0″ is controversial work (cigarette companies); “10″ is saving small children
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