Be Yourself - 5 Principles of Career Transition
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5 principles of the messy but exciting process of career change and transition. Drawing on some favourite quotes with some food for thought.
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Be Yourself - 5 Principles of Career Transition
- 1. Principle No.1 It is important to value your offer Be clear and specific about your strength and motivations
- 2. Principle No. 2 – Find outlets to expose the talents you have “People don’t change that much. Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.” Source: "First break all the Rules, what great managers do differently" by Buckingham and Coffman.
- 3. Principle No. 3 – Reflect but ultimately action trumps reflection “To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.” Albert Camus
- 4. Principle No. 4 – Who is your career manager? You are! “Chance favours the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur “We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?” Jean Cocteau
- 5. Principle 5 – It is messy. Roll with it. “We oscillate between ‘holding on’ and ‘letting go’, between our desire to rigidly clutch the past and the impulse to rush exuberantly into the future.” Herminia Ibarra
- 6. Some food for thought The Transformative Power of a Personal Project http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/01/14/ji The Power of Introverts (3 links) http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_i http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/ Animated version of talk The Secret of Success creatively http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/02/22/ir 10 Inspirational quotes from Herminia Ibarra's http://solutionfocusedchange.blogspot.ie/2009/08/ 10-inspirational-quotes-from-herminia.html Read: “Working Identity on the First-Act-Then-Think Change Strategy”
- 7. Actions to consider 1. Develop your CV (it can be creative but do a bog standard one first) http://www.tempsahead.com/tips-for-jobseekers/10-creative-slideshare-visualresumes/ 2. Develop a strong Linkedin Profile (after the CV) The start-up of you (linked tips on 2) 1.http://www.slideshare.net/reidhoffman/startup -of-you-visual-summary 2. http://www.thestartupofyou.com/
Editor's Notes
- A challenge across all the career options. A muscle to build in a range of different ways.
- By far the biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is to delay taking the first step until they have settled on a destination. (Herminia Ibarra)
- Catching a career wave means paddling a long time to be positioned even when the outcome is not clear. The challenge is to back oneself during that phase when the fruits of one’s labour are not entirely clear.
- By far the biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is to delay taking the first step until they have settled on a destination. We oscillate between ‘holding on’ and ‘letting go’, between our desire to rigidly clutch the past and the impulse to rush exuberantly into the future. “Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.” ~Dalai Lama