At some point in life, we are hindered from seeing what we desire. Perhaps a lack of self-confidence and motivation drives us to be lost in the path. Nevertheless, how can we overcome these barriers through guidance and predictive science? 

On this week's episode of Actions Antidote, we talk to Bryan Dik, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of jobZology. Bryan Dik shares his knowledge and the science behind finding the meaning and purpose of workplace worth for life. Bryan Dik is a vocational psychologist and professor of psychology. He focuses on career pathways and guidance among students and for everyone. He has published four books including Redeeming Work and Make Your Job a Calling. Bryan Dik is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of jobZology which helps people discern their calling and live with purpose. 

Want help in finding your own calling? Do you want one? Listen to this episode to find more!

 
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Finding Your Calling and Purpose of Work In Your Life with Bryan Dik
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you about something that I really wish that I had when I was younger, when I was coming out of college and considering careers, which is a product that really helps us examine who we are, what really is going to make us satisfied and what’s going to make a satisfying day to day life, because, like many people in my general age range, a lot of us went to college and picked something that we’re interested in, picked something that maybe we’re good at in school but didn’t really think about this day to day and what really drives satisfaction with work, which is something that ends up being probably the first or second biggest use of time during adulthood behind sleeping and maybe something else. My guest today, Bryan Dik, is a professor of psychology at Colorado State University as well as the co-founder of a product called jobZology, which is a product that helps a lot of outgoing college students as well as other career change people examine what they really want to do and find a career path that’s going to be way more fulfilling.

 
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Bryan, welcome to the program.

 

Thank you so much for having me, Stephen. It’s a joy to be with you. 

 

I’m always glad when people are happy to be discussing their pursuits with me on this podcast because it’s such a positive community of people in a way just talking about what we’re doing and I say this because at the time of recording, we’re in the middle of Denver Startup Week, which is another area where you see a lot of people just talking about their pursuits, talking about what really drives them and so, Bryan, what drove you to start jobZology? What were you observing that made you decide that this was worth your time, your effort, your sweat, everything else that people say?

 

A little context. I’m a vocational psychologist and one of my roles at the university is training our PhD students in counseling psychology to facilitate career counseling. A lot of magic happens in a career counseling relationship, it’s very powerful. But it’s also not always accessible for lots of people. And so one of the motivations behind starting jobZology was thinking about ways to democratize the career assessment and counseling process so that, in a very efficient way, a much broader array of people can experience the kind of support that they might get in career counseling and have access to the information about what makes them unique and how the ways that they’re unique intersect with opportunities and needs in the world of work so that they can make informed decisions about their lives. 

 

And so what prevents people from getting access to the resources they need to really dig deep inside themselves and figure out what’s going to drive them to a satisfying day-to-day life? 

 

Yeah, well, I think lots of things.