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How To Navigate The Tricky Waters Of A Career Change
How to tell if you’re in the wrong career
Ask yourself these three questions:
- Is your paycheck the only thing fueling your workday?
- Are you a chronic complainer?
- Do you have poor performance reviews?
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How to tell if you’re in the wrong career
Ask yourself these three questions:
- Is your paycheck the only thing fueling your workday?
- Are you a chronic complainer?
- Do you have poor performance reviews?
How to change careers
- Do an assessment. Make a list of your strengths, weaknesses, what you like and hate to do. Look outside and ask what industry lines up with the things you wrote under strengths and likes.
- Avoid dwelling on the past. Take what you’ve learned and move it to an industry that’s going to suit you better.
- Jumping ship isn’t always the answer. Walking away from an unfulfilling career isn’t always an option, especially for those who can’t afford the financial consequences of making a switch.
- Don’t react too quickly. Know the kind of person you are and the kind of job you would enjoy before you can look out at the universe of jobs that are out there and make the move.
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Start with honest self-assessment
- Analyze your current skill set, training level, and accomplishments to date.
- Write down the aspects of the work you liked and what tasks or things you disliked.
- Explore different career options. Investigate new fields, industries and potential careers.
- Interview individuals who work at those types of jobs, or in fields of interest to you.
- Look at growth opportunities, salaries, benefits, education level and then determine the job title to target.
Change from careers
- Use your transferable skills. You have acquired abilities from previous positions.
- Use your strengths. Incorporate your talents into any position you choose to go after.
- Get new skills. Study the industry you want to enter. Take some courses so you can more quickly enter the field.
- Many people prevent their own success. They find excuses, or blame others, for their own failures or mistakes instead of learning and improving from them.
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The career pitfall
Today’s career landscape isn’t a lineup of tunnels, it’s a massive, impossibly complex, rapidly changing science laboratory.
Why Career-path-carving is important.
Time. A typical career will take up somewhere between 20% and 60% of your meaningful adult time.
Quality of Life. Your career has a major effect on all your non-career hours.
Impact. Whatever shape your career path ends up taking, the world will be altered by it.
Identity. We tell people about our careers by telling them what we are.
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The power of taking on extra jobs
Many managers and leaders focus obsessively on their current jobs. They don't believe they can be successful without that single focus.
However, most realize that to advance your career...
The value of strategic side gigs
A survey of 122 senior executives from a variety of industries agreed that outside engagements were critical to leadership success now and in the future.
Meaningful engagement should be in activities that expose you to different people, information, and cultures, but is synergistic with your personal interests and your current or future primary work. Think of yourself as having a portfolio where your job is in the middle, the outside activities surround and complement it, and you use what you've learned to advance each sphere.
Finding the time for a side gig
Although executives face a high demand on their time, private and public sector leaders believe that you can find the time if you make it a priority. (Although you may have to give up some nights or weekends.) Make sure you deliver in your job and for your family, then take on additional responsibilities.
Try to spend 10% to 20% on these "extracurricular" activities. The amount needn't be consistent every week or month.
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