Fit Matters: How to Love Your Job

by Moe Carrick, Cammie Dunaway

This practical guide for job hunters or employees at any career stage offers useful advice, tools, and exercises to help you find the job you’ll love.

How can you discover a job that really matches your needs? A job that provides meaning to your life? Fit Matters shows you how.

Odds are that you want to bring your best self to work. You want a job that feeds your spirit, your mind, and your heart. Fit matters – it's crucial if you're to perform at your best.

Thought-provoking and practical, the book offers tools and exercises designed to help you evaluate the fit between your needs and the culture of your current or prospective employer, assess and articulate what you really need to thrive at work, and develop options if you find yourself in a company or job where you are misfit.

You'll learn that self-knowledge, combined with an understanding of six elements of work fit, will help you make decisions that will lead to better job satisfaction and improved performance over the entire course of your career.

Genres: Business, Professional Development

256 pages, Hardcover

Published May 16, 2017

About the author

Mom, daughter, gardener, wife, ex-wife, adventurer, entrepreneur, and consultant Moe Carrick believes that people make organizations great. Companies large and small are routinely brought to their knees by the so-called "soft stuff” of people problems–as anyone knows who has tried, this work is hard. As a facilitator, protagonist, consultant, entrepreneur, author, employer, and relentless optimist, Moe believes that people can and should thrive at work, and that when they do, organizations succeed. With over 30 years of work in organizations on issues of partnership, leadership, inclusion, strategy and culture Moe believes that rigorous self-awareness, courage, honest dialogue, active involvement, and empathy are fundamentals to building full partnerships based on trust and curiosity. As a white, US-born, heterosexual woman, Moe strives to use her privilege with grace to surface assumptions that interfere with teams and to explore systemic patterns.
Moe holds a Master’s Degree in OD, is a Certified Daring Way™/Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, a Coach, and administrator of a variety of tools in her trade. She is also a Senior Consultant with White Men as Full Diversity Partners (WMFDP,) the market leaders in including white men in the critical conversations required to sustain truly inclusive cultures.

www.moecarrick.com
www.bravespaceworkplace.com
www.fitmatters.biz

Reviews

[aaron]

This is now my go-to book for considering one's current relationship with work and moving toward better fit. It provides a practical framework for:
1. Introspecting on your values
2. Assessing your current experience
3. Considering changes which could harmonize your efforts with your values and desires

Peppered throughout the book are a number of questions and activities which I found to be both practical and appropriately focused (this improved as the book went on).

I have (purposefully and accidentally) transitioned into a number of different work roles during my career. It's likely due to these experiences that over the past few years I have mentored a number of folks on their own job transitions. The authors helped me more fully consider how I relate to my work and better ground my advice to others.

Additional books which may be of interest: Joy Inc, Delivering Happiness, Taking People With You, Start With Why.

[Rasa]

It’s an excellent book! The best I have read on the topic. I had been struggling to find a job I liked or fit in the ones I had for many years. This book removes the fog of finding The One and rather raises many questions that you have to answer to evaluate what you actually need. As it is said, it is all about raising a good question. This book is your personal career coach.

[Christy]

Great stuff to make you think about your career and assess what is working and what may not be working. Even if you love your job, would suggest reading through this one.