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
By Rachel Brushfield http://energisecareer.brandrepublic.com/2009/01/31/need-or-want-to-reinvent-your-career/#ixzz2WgpSmOUY
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