What Makes a Dream Career?

October 20, 2025
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October 20, 2025 admin

✳️ What Makes a Dream Career?

⇒ What would your dream career include – if nothing held you back?

Researchers and labour economists agree: a “dream job” isn’t defined by salary alone. It’s multidimensional. 

For example, the Eurofound Job Quality framework describes job quality as “a multidimensional concept … made up of all the characteristics of work and employment that have been proven to have a causal relationship with health and well-being.” 

Meanwhile, the OECD notes that “fair wages, benefits, and good working conditions enhance worker well-being, while also improving productivity and innovation.” 

From these frameworks we can extract key dimensions we’ll soon ask you to rank:

  • Compensation & Benefits (salary, health, paid leave)
  • Flexibility & Time (remote work, hours, autonomy)
  • Growth & Development (learning, skill advancement)
  • Work Environment & Culture (support, psychological safety)
  • Meaning & Impact (doing work aligned with your values)
  • Risk / Commute / Stress (negative dimensions to minimize)

📌 In DIAMOND Empower, we believe defining your dream career is more than wishful thinking; it’s about aligning your goals across multiple dimensions. Next week, we’ll launch a poll so you can help us see which of these dimensions matter most and compare them across our network. Stay tuned!

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