How God will help your Career Decisions

The last four years has seen a blossoming of research on the role of spirituality and religion on individual's careers. The research does not differentiate between belief systems but rather focusses on whether people have a spiritual or religious framework.

There is a difference between spirituality and religion, but that's another blog post (or two) for the future.

So how will God help you?

Ryan Duffy and David Blustein conducted a study on the relationship between religiousness, spirituality, and career decision self-efficacy. They found that spiritual/religious frameworks play a significant role in an individual's confidence about making career decisions. Here's an extract from their findings:

"While the exact link between these variables and confidence in making career decisions is not clear, we propose that the stability and support granted by a strong base in religion and spirituality helps an individual have confidence about a host of decisions, including those concerning one
s career."

The end of the redundancy stigma

Being retrenched no longer comes with a social stigma. It is far to common an experience with the average person experiencing 3 involuntary career changes in their working life.

It is so commonin fact that two retrenched workers in the US decided they needed to promote more actively that they were looking for work. So, they created a brightly coloured wristband saying "Looking for work - Need a job". 

The result?

They are no longer without work. Their full time job is packing and sending these wristbands to people from around the country.