How many cards does the Job Offer Spread use?

The Job Offer Spread uses 5 cards: the full 78-card deck.

What do the positions of the Job Offer Spread mean?

The positions are: The role, The people, What it gives you, What it costs you and The first year. Each card is read as the answer to the question of its position.

How do you read the Job Offer Spread?

The cards do not say whether the job will come: the employer decides, with candidates, budgets and timing that cannot be seen. They describe the role and what it would bring to the querent. Cards 3 and 4 are read together, like the two pans of a scale. A court card in position 2 usually points to a real person in the workplace (a manager, a colleague), as an energy and not as a judgement on that person. Card 5 is a tendency, not a promise: the decision to accept stays with the querent.

A spread · 5 cards

Job Offer Spread

Five cards in an arch to weigh an offer or an interview: what the role is really like, the people you would work with, what would help you grow, what it would cost you and where the first year leads.

Begin a reading with this spread All spreads

The role

The people

What it gives you

What it costs you

The first year

The positions

Position 1
The role
The real nature of the position, beyond the title and the job ad.
What is this role really like?
Position 2
The people
The team, the managers, the atmosphere: the people you would work with every day.
What environment would I find?
Position 3
What it gives you
The growth the role offers: skills, experience, possibilities.
What would help me grow?
Position 4
What it costs you
The price of the role: time, energy, balance, what you would give up.
What would it cost me?
Position 5
The first year
The most likely path over the first twelve months, if you accept and the forces stay as they are.
Where would the first year take me?

How to read it

The cards do not say whether the job will come: the employer decides, with candidates, budgets and timing that cannot be seen. They describe the role and what it would bring to the querent.
Cards 3 and 4 are read together, like the two pans of a scale.
A court card in position 2 usually points to a real person in the workplace (a manager, a colleague), as an energy and not as a judgement on that person.
Card 5 is a tendency, not a promise: the decision to accept stays with the querent.

Positions to read together

What it gives you ↔ What it costs you. Ciò che il ruolo dà e ciò che costa: il bilancio vero dell'offerta.
The role ↔ The people. Il ruolo e le persone: il lavoro com'è sulla carta e com'è vissuto ogni giorno.
The role ↔ The first year. Dal ruolo di oggi a dove porta: se la direzione è quella che chi consulta cerca.

Origin

A recent five-card spread, common in online career tarot guides (for example Unmei Tarot's) to weigh a job offer or an interview: the role, the people, what it gives and what it costs.

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