If you’re engaged in work that really suits you as a person, your chances of achieving job satisfaction and lifestyle happiness are very high. But how can you know what type of work matches you best? The secret is to collect lots of relevant information about yourself . Clearly the information that regularly appear on CVs like skills and work experience is very important in terms of your future options, however the less visible items, such as personality, interests, aspirations and work values are perhaps more vital to consider. Determining your personality and interests through psychometric assessments can help in uncovering excellent job fits and is usually highly enlightening. Assessing your work values and aspirations helps decide on what’s important to you and the level of motivation you’re likely to apply in taking a particular route. Considered together all this career data produces work requirements that if met, will guarantee a very satisfying job future for you. Following up this data collection and discovery with a career consultation can help you objectively analyse the situation and decide on your path to get to your ideal job – you can even get your CV updated. It’s not as far off as you might think.