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Job crafting

Meaning in job interviews & careers, with examples

nounCommon term

In job interviews & careers, job crafting means: An employee's intentional adjustments to aspects of their work to improve its fit or meaning.

In Turkish: işi kişiye uygun biçimde şekillendirme

How it is used

Can involve tasks, relationships or how the work is understood.

Example sentences

  1. Through job crafting, she added mentoring to a role focused mainly on reporting.

    Adjusting task content can make existing work more meaningful.

  2. Job crafting helped him see maintenance as protecting colleagues rather than fixing machines.

    The change may be in how the worker understands the purpose of the job.

Common collocations

  • engage in job crafting
  • job crafting exercise
  • responsibilityA duty or task that is part of your job and that you must take care of; on a CV, the main things you did in each role.
  • career pathThe series of jobs and roles a person moves through during their working life, or a planned way to progress inside a company.

More terms: Career Development

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