Achievers Only Quiz

The following shows the R's for a career tune-up except one.

• Reflect

• Review

• Retreat

• Re-align

Answer explanation

The 5Rs to a career tune-up are: Reflect, Review your accomplishment, Re-align your plan, Re-chart your steps, Re-define your workstyle.

You serve best when you are satisfied with your job and feel you are using your skills most effectively.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The job satisfaction line that is going down means you feel disappointed, trapped and unhappy. What is the best way to respond to disappointment in your career?

• Deny and repeat the mistake

• Learn from experience but don't take further action

• Resign and find another job

• Learn from experience and adopt a new approach

Answer explanation

There are 3 possible responses to frustrations in your career but the best thing to do is learn from it and find another way to do things better.

In dealing with a declining job satisfaction, we need to STRIVE. T stands for

• Think trade-offs

• Torture yourself

• Trust the process

• Treat yourself

Answer explanation

Accept the reality of trade-offs and that you cannot have everything that you want/need.

A job satisfaction line that goes up and down it means you need to FOCUS. S means set-up a support network.

• True

• False

When your job satisfaction plot looks like this it means you are...

• bored

• productive

• satisfied

• dissapointed

When your job satisfaction has plateaued, one of the things you can do is to seek a mentor. What is not part of a mentor's role?

• energize and inspire

• validate your ideas and concerns

• help you financially

• help you in your career advancement

The key career stages are...

• Hiring, Fuel Shortage, Retirement

• Honeymoon, Fuel Shortage, Retirement

• Honeymoon, Fuel Shortage, Chronic

• Honeymoon, Promotion, Resignation

You are an achiever when you are in what key stage of your career?

• Honeymoon

• Fuel shortage

• Chronic

• All of the above

Answer explanation

The honeymoon stage is when you feel the burst of enthusiasm and fire of passion for your career. An achiever always maintains this feeling.

The story of the frog teaches us that

• we need to drink milk everyday

• when it's too hard, just give up

• those who persevere survives

• we are all frogs