Career Change
If you are unhappy in your current role then you might be ready to consider a change in career. We have geared Career Change towards anyone who is experiencing any of the following situations:
A change in job sector
Moving from a professional role into a management role
A change in role function (e.g. business development to project management)
Role has transferred to a different area/ abroad
Current career is stagnant (e.g. no opportunity for development/ promotion)
Career indecision after completing education
There are three distinct steps included in our Career Change package that you can take advantage of:
Stage 1: Know Yourself
To know yourself is extremely important and you should make every effort possible to ensure that you are thoroughly prepared with this knowledge before making any kind of decision concerning your future career, training or personal growth.
You can become better prepared through the use of various career tests, including a variety of questionnaires, as well as a range of extremely useful self-assessments, which we can help you with.
Completing such tests will enable you to gain a clearer idea of who you are and what your specific wants and needs are, which is vital when looking to change your career.
By sitting down and focusing on yourself in this manner, you will also gain valuable insight into:
Your Transferable Skills (Key skills that enable you to adapt and be flexible when going through career change)
Your strengths
Your weaknesses
The top values that you hold
Achievements
Skills
Additional career drivers
Once you start completing such exercises, you’ll see that you build up a clearer picture of all of the above which will enable you to create a ‘Job Template’. This is a document that you can refer to quickly and see all the fundamental elements that will make you happy in a new job. We can help you put this together.
Stage 2: Explore Ideas and Opportunities
Having completed Stage 1, you should have renewed confidence in your own abilities and what is required when going through a career change. You should now be mentally prepared to come up with masses of ideas that will help you to plan your future. Below are a few hints as to what these ideas could include:
How to develop yourself professionally (e.g. training courses and seminars)
How to improve your chances at securing an interview
Listing a wide variety of extremely different job roles
Working abroad/ different surroundings (e.g. outdoors instead of inside)
It is a good idea to ensure your Job Template is as complete as possible, making sure that you have made it as specific as you can. Our coaching package, Career Change, will assign you your very own Career Coach, who will be able to help you with this.
Your Job Template must be accurate so that you are clear on what it is that you want and need in your career change so that when, in an interview, you are asked “Why do you want this job”, or “What do you expect or want to gain from this role?” you are able to answer in a positive and clear manner.
Stage 3: Make a Career Decision
We at Career Journey are committed to helping you set out a number of achievable objectives and develop reasonable and realistic steps that you can action along the way, to help you reach your goals. We accomplish this through our first-rate set of exercises, which will help you to evaluate which careers are a good fit and which aren’t.
After you have thought out your masses of ideas, you must then start to research all the areas that you are interested in; either through reading various booklets/ brochures/ online materials, or talking to people you know in the work sector or even approaching the employers themselves.
If you are interested in how these stages can help you to achieve happiness throughout your experience of a career change, please do not hesitate to get in touch. We welcome new clients and our first consultation is free.
You can even book some time with us now, by checking availability for a free coaching consultation.
Take the first step, be brave and we can help you build your confidence and make your career change worthwhile.
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