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You See Emotional Intelligence Every Day!

At this time, we want to show you, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that emotional intelligence affects your life every single day.   We will later be sharing research, but first let's prove it for yourself.  You have seen emotional intelligence but may not have known what it was.  You have seen it in your relationships, in your tasks, in your feelings and behavior, and in the people all around you.

* Your Relationships: Think of someone you have related to over a significant period of time that you have some conflicts with. 

Despite conversation and sharing of both points of view, you still disagree.  You see it one way and the other person sees it very differently.  What you do irritates them and or what they do irritates you.   Yet, there are other people you find very easy to relate to.  You naturally get along with them with very little effort. 

* Your Tasks:  Now think about work or tasks that you have found unpleasant to do.  You know you can do it but you just don't want to.  Perhaps you do it half-heartedly and may not do it as well as you know you can.  Somehow, others seem to like the task although its hard to imagine how they could.  Other tasks or jobs you really like to do and find easy to do.  It may be hard for some others but not to you.

* Your Feelings and Actions:   Sometimes you find yourself wanting to do or doing what you know you shouldn't do.   Some motivation from inside you pushes you.  Sometimes you feel stress where others feel less. 

Career Help from the U.S. Department of Labor:

Tomorrow's Jobs

Making informed career decisions requires reliable information about opportunities in the future. Opportunities result from the relationships between the population, labor force, and the demand for goods and services.

Population ultimately limits the size of the labor force—individuals working or looking for work—which constrains how much can be produced. Demand for various goods and services determines employment in the industries providing them. Occupational employment opportunities, in turn, result from demand for skills needed within specific industries. Opportunities for medical assistants and other healthcare occupations, for example, have surged in response to rapid growth in demand for health services.

Examining the past and projecting changes in these relationships is the foundation of the Occupational Outlook Program. This chapter presents highlights of Bureau of Labor Statistics projections of the labor force and occupational and industry employment that can help guide your career plans.

The long-term shift from goods-producing to service-providing employment is expected to continue. Service-providing industries are expected to account for approximately 18.7 million of the 18.9 million new wage and salary jobs generated over the 2004-14 period

Education and health services. This industry supersector is projected to grow faster, 30.6 percent, and add more jobs than any other industry supersector. About 3 out of every 10 new jobs created in the U.S. economy will be in either the healthcare and social assistance or private educational services sectors.............................

To read the rest of this career help article, click on this link: http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco2003.htm 

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