Reinvent Your Career 2010 - How you can make a successful Career Change

Reinvent Your Career: 11 steps to a smooth Career Change
Jenni Proctor
Career Clarity
www.careerclarity.com.au
jenni@careerclarity.com.au

What’s changed?
A range of jobs
Part time jobs
Portfolio careers
Generic skills
Life long learning
Ability to find and evaluate information
Multiple careers using transferable skills
Expectation of rapid technology uptake and intuitive learning
Job for life
Permanent status
Specific skills
Qualification for life
Knowledge
One career path using the same skill set.
Skill based technology

A career is not a destination………but a journey taken one step at a time.

Resilience

1. Listen to your dreams
What are you trying to achieve?
What do you REALLY want to do?
What’s stopping you?
Are those barriers real or imagined?

Sack the Boss
New job
Become your own Boss
Re-establish yourself
Could be similar to past job or could be very different
Will it give you the fulfillment you are seeking?
Reinvent yourself
Complete change of life direction
Challenges of self –employment

2. Reality Check
What really matters to you?
What have you loved doing?
What have you hated doing?
What environments impact on your work?
What MUST be considered?
What’s really stopping you?

3. Research
What is out there?
Jobs that are being advertised
Jobs that other people have
Upcoming industries
Government Sites
www.myfuture.edu.au – The Facts
www.workplace.gov.au

4. Be Smooth!
SMOOTH transition
What are the links?
Same work, different context
Same context, different work
Different work, different context, same skills.

5. Product YOU
Transferable skills
Employability skills eg communication, teamwork, problem solving, technology skills
Personal traits eg leadership, drive, energy, empathy
Identify the gaps

6. Goal setting
What are your long-term Career Change goals?
What are your interim Career Change goals?
Set SMART goals
Specific
Measureable
Actionable
Realistic
Time-bound

7. What’s your plan?
How can you develop the skills you need?
Access your network
Informational interviews
Social media – Linked In

8. Take action
Nothing happens until you do something about it!
Tips for Action:
SMART goals, clearly displayed, looked at daily
Certainty
Support
Pain – What will your life be like in 5 years time if you FAIL to take action now?

9. Resilience
Deal with the inevitable……
Setbacks
Barriers
Personal doubts
Fear
Do you need help through this part of the process?

10. Motivation and Mind Set
How will you maintain
your motivation?
your positive mind set?
your focus?

11. Celebrate!
Celebrate each step when it has been completed
Really celebrate your successful career transition

A helping hand
Out of the frying pan into the fire……………..Ouch!
New stage of life - What does that mean in terms of the work you are seeking?
Clarify what you are seeking
Professional help
Counselling, coaching, practical help
Qualified in Career Development
Where to get help
Career Development Association of Australia – www.cdaa.org.au
Career Advice Line – 13 17 64

Career Clarity…….for the next stage
Webinar series commencing April 14………….Free
Any suggestions of specific topics?
Workshop in Brisbane soon……I’ll email you with details and special price for people at this workshop.
Put your card or email address into bowl to be in the draw for one hour FREE consultation.

Jenni Proctor - Career Clarity
www.CareerClarity.com.au
jenni@career clarity.com.au
0413 602096

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Reinvent Your Career 2010 - How you can make a successful Career Change

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