A career change is often a mixed bag of wrong doings and doubts for many people and this is a very common problem to say the least. As a result of which what happens is that things start worsening even in the midst of a career-graph notwithstanding a favourable atmosphere like personal skills or a corpus of large market. The list given below indicates the things that one should and shouldn't do while attempting to change careers. This can be immensely fruitful.
Things you shouldn't do:-
i. Just don't think to quit a job unless you have one in your bag. Do according to your manipulation, not by your whim.
ii. If one wants to change careers, it has to accompanied by a properly thought out decision. You shouldn't take a step in a minute.
iii. Don't switch over to another job only because it is lucrative from the financial point of view. Give priority to your own choice of a particular kind of work.
iv. Be realistic when you want to change careers. Please, don't start building castles in the air about your new job.
v. As said earlier, take your own decision irrespective of what the others are saying- be it positive or negative.
vi. Once you don't get a confirmation letter to join your new job, you shouldn't publicize this fact.
vii. Don't come out the shackles of your safe job until the time when you do get to know about the terms of compensation.
viii. Before you move on to quit your safe job, do make sure of the fact that you are not going to pay your monthly bills from the account of your savings.
ix. Having left your past job, don't start to make a negative campaigning about it.
Things you should do:-
i. Notwithstanding being a part of your current job, you should, if possible, gather information about your job in aim to change careers. Moreover, there is nothing wrong if you do part-time job in favour of your chosen career.
ii. You should carry on your learning process in spite of all the constraints of your present job.
iii. Be confident enough about your positive aspects in the field that you can easily surpass and then go for the requirements to change career.
iv. If you are frustrated and over-burdened in your present job but the job is perfect, strive to come out from the problems, not from the job.
v. Even while leaving the resent job, you should be generous enough to your present organization.
vi. Once you step in a new job, start getting acclimatized with your new environment. Don't waste time.
Want To Change Careers
Changing career is a big step and to ensure that you make the right career decision, here are five smaller steps you can take first.
1. Make a list of priorities. This should apply to life in general, because your values and principles will help you choose a career which you will feel motivated to achieve and which will ultimately deliver in terms of job satisfaction. So if your values include family, your career should allow you to spend time with your children, parents or whichever family members you are closest to. If looking after the planet is an important consideration for you, you will not want to be involved in a career which damages the environment.
2. Make a list of everything you want from your new career. And be as specific as possible. Let's start with something which is important to everyone - money. Don't just write "a lot of money", write an exact figure, but before you do this, work out why you want that figure. This means making some decisions about the type of lifestyle you want to lead and will also relate to your priorities, as outlined in step one.
Other things you might want from your career could be the opportunity to learn new skills or the chance to travel. You may want to be able to progress up the career ladder, or you may be content to work at a specific level. For example, you may want to work with people. There are many jobs which make this possible, some examples being teaching and nursing, but if you aim for the highest levels in these jobs and become a manager, you will have less contact with the people you initially chose to work with as a nurse or a teacher.
3. Decide what you want to put into your career. In order to get the most from your career, you will want to use your skills and knowledge. Are there specific skills which you have already developed, or know you could develop to a high level? List the skills you really want to use in your career. Teaching is a good example, as it does not limit you to becoming a high school teacher, but is a skill which is needed in just about every profession.
Do you love to write, use certain computer skills, or give advice? Do you enjoy communicating with large numbers of people through speaking at events or do you love talking one on one? Are you knowledgeable in a wide range of subjects or a specialist in a particular field? How could you like to use this knowledge?
4. Bring all of the factors from steps one to three together and create an outline of your ideal job. To recap, this will include your values, the things you want the job to give you and the skills and knowledge you want to bring to your career.
5. Begin to research careers which will fit in with the outline you created in step four.You can do this using the internet to search for general terms such as jobs with people and then narrow down your focus to those which provide the majority of factors on your lists. Or you can go for specific jobs, such as air traffic controller, children's nurse, university professor or recruitment consultant and then see how they measure up against your lists.
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