I've spoken about this numerous times before - happiness in your job is all about finding the right company for you. There's no one perfect job for everyone, it's all about finding the right fit between you and the company.
And now there's a site that helps you figure this out! On Jiibe, you answer a bunch of questions (the more you answer, the more accurate your results) about your current and ideal work environment. It then creates a "jiibe" and report based on your responses. Here's my jiibe:
My ideal work culture:
Not only that, it offers up companies that match your jiibe (based on users' ratings for the companies for the same set of questions) and (smartest part of all) actually displays current openings posted at that company. Well, that's Jiibe's whole thing - their tagline is "The best way to find a great place to work is to ask a friend, but Jiibe takes it a step further by asking everyone".
It's very cool (though somewhat tedious to answer all the questions) and it's free (but be warned: you will need to register). I don't agree 100% with the report it spit out for me or my company, but there's definitely some valid stuff in there. And it's "colorful." For example, here's what it says about HubSpot: "If this company were a band it would be a punk group called Innovate or Die!" Right now their directory of companies is still pretty limited, but this could turn out to be a very popular, very cool job search tool. These days it's all about valuable, user-generated content and that's what Jiibe is all about.
