Monday, June 24, 2013

CAREER SPECIAL............. Need or want to reinvent your career?



Need or want to reinvent your career?

 There are many barriers in people’s minds to career change, actual and perceived:  

·         Fear of change/uncertainty

·         Resistance from partners, peers or parents

·         Worrying about money, making the wrong decision or taking a step down the ladder having worked so hard to progress up it

·         Not knowing what you don’t know

·         Being in the dark about how to find out about new options 

·         Believing you are ‘too old’ to change

·         Pleasing others e.g. parents living their lives through their children’s success instead of focusing on their happiness

·         Lack of time

·         Not wanting to let go of a benefit of the current job e.g. being admired at parties for being a Doctor

Top tips to reinvent your career 

     Here are some tips to help you reinvent yourself in your career  

·         Research employment growth areas; sectors and jobs

·         Think about when you have felt most alive and fulfilled in your work and how you can have more of this

·         Source examples of achievements and initiatives from outside your career to demonstrate your marketability

·         Think your career change through thoroughly and create a long term vision with small shorter term steps

·         Make time regularly to make your change happen

·         Research your options and ensure they will give you what’s important to you e.g. security, learning or challenge

·         Consider retraining and acquiring new skills to become more marketable

·         Analyse what makes you distinctive to other people in your field  – that unique combination of your skills, qualities and life and work experiences – this is your  unique ‘brand’

·         Speak to people already doing what you want to do to get inside knowledge

·         Be creative about how you can get experience to prove your capability and demonstrate the transferability of your skills in a new area e.g. do voluntary work, help out a friend’s business etc 

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