Choose Work
Choose Work
Podcast Description
I’m Heidi, Founder of Heidi Coaching & Training. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights to help you make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
Each episode focuses on one specific work-related theme, explored in-depth over multiple episodes through interviews with Dutch or English-speaking experts or individuals with firsthand experience.
This podcast provides answers to questions like:
* How can I find work that aligns with my personality, talents, and values?
* How can employers promote Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace?
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers various themes surrounding career development, including finding work that aligns with personal values and talents, promoting Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace, and entrepreneurial inspiration. For example, episodes include topics like 'Giftedness in the Workplace,' as discussed by Dr. Sabine Sypré, and practical advice for managing personal finances while building a meaningful career.
I’m Heidi, evidence-based Coach & Trainer. This podcast delivers practical career tips, inspiring stories, and expert insights – empowering you to make thoughtful decisions about your career and workplace.
In each episode, I explore a work-related topic together with a national or international expert, or someone with firsthand experience.
Sometimes there is a deep-dive into a theme across several episodes, other times it’s a stand-alone interview with an expert or practitioner. Episodes are primarily in English.
I had the privilege of speaking with Professor Filip De Fruyt,who brings over 35 years of expertise in academic research and international business consultancy.
🎓 Filip is a Senior Full Professor of Differential Psychology and Personality Assessment at Ghent University and serves as International Relationships Officer at Low Lands Assessment Systems.
This episode is a deep dive into Person-Environment Fit (P-EFit) – and why it’s central to understanding careers, performance, and employee retention.
💡 Key insights from our conversation:
🔹 For over three decades, Filip has studied the intersection of how people work and perform (Big Five personality model) and what they do (Holland’s RIASEC vocational interest model).
🔹 Fit can be supplementary or complementary — a crucial consideration when hiring.
🔹 Fit is dynamic, not static: your role at 28 may no longer be the right fit at 32.
🔹 Organisations often over-focus on performance, but should also align employees’ learning and development with their vocational interests – critical in today's fast-changing job market.
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Resources Referenced:
– Low Lands Assessment Systems: https://lowlandsassessmentsystems.com/en
– Lola-test: https://lowlandsassessmentsystems.com/en/explore-your-passion- The Big Five or Five-Factor Model: dimensions of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness
– John Holland's theory of vocational interests, the ”RIASECmodel”: interest domains of Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional
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Contact Filip De Fruyt:
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filip-de-fruyt/
– Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aqL24tgAAAAJ&hl=en
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Contact Heidi De Langhe – Evidence-based Coaching & Training:
– Book a free discovery call here: www.heididelanghe.com/contact
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– LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/heididelanghe
– Website: www.heididelanghe.com
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