This document outlines Jenni Proctor's career clarity services and 11 steps for career change or transition. It notes that careers have changed from a single job for life to multiple careers and jobs. Jenni Proctor helps clients listen to their dreams, do a reality check on barriers, research options, plan a smooth transition using transferable skills, develop goals, take action, build resilience, and celebrate successes. The 11 steps include setting goals, developing skills, using networks, dealing with obstacles, and maintaining motivation throughout the career change process.

1. Jenni Proctor
Career Clarity
www.careerclarity.com.au
http://claritycareermanagement.com.au/
jenni@careerclarity.com.au

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

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

4. Resilience

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 3. Research
 What is out there?
 Jobs that are being advertised
 Jobs that other people have
 Upcoming industries

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

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

11. 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

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

13. 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?

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

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

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

17. Sack the Boss?
 Reinvent yourself
 Complete change of life direction
 Possibilities of self –employment
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18. Jenni Proctor - Career Clarity
www.CareerClarity.com.au
http://claritycareermanagement.com.au/
jenni@career clarity.com.au
0413 602096
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