9 Ways to Prep Now for a Career Change Later
July 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Set a goal and make your career change a project. Blast yourself out of “someday I’ll make a change” mode. Set a goal for when you want to make that career change. By when do you want to have made it? A year from now? Two years from now? Three? Set some parameters around your career change efforts and make it a project.
Get to know yourself. I can’t tell you how many people I have seen who jump from the frying pan straight into the fire because they were too impatient to spend some quality time exploring the question, “What makes me tick?” The more you know about what energizes you and what you want out of your next career, the more chance you have of making the right change, not just change for the sake of change.
Identify new career possibilities. Once you have a deep understanding of what makes you tick, start exploring possible career paths that would let you experience that. Don’t just make it a willy-nilly shotgun blast, sampling this and that in the hope that something will taste good. Use the insights that your self-exploration yielded to help you focus in specifically on the kinds of paths that are characterized by what energizes you…
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