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Identify Meaningful, Motivating Career Change Options
Career change: When you go through the steps involved in a career change, you want the result to be work that you feel passionate about. In terms of your career change, however, I’ll be referring to passions—or “passion zones”—as those interesting industries in the world of work that are especially meaningful or intriguing to you. For instance, one of my passion zones is bike riding. I love doing it, I love how good it is for me, and I’m willing to endure hour after hour of physical effort to stay skilled and in shape. A few of my other passion zones are cooking, reading, career counseling,...
read moreHelpful Career Data Resources to Help You Dig In On Your Career Change Ideas
Career data available online can be helpful in determining if the career change options you’re considering will work for you. I recommend digging in on these resources after you’ve executed the career research interviews and career experiment strategies I discussed in the previous 2 blogs, for this reason: When you identify an area that intrigues you and pull up some statistics or specifications on it, often you’ll see too many roadblocks right away. Like, “Oh, I don’t have that training” or “Oh, it’s not going to pay enough.” Yet when you explore...
read moreStop Dreaming About a Career Change and Start Making It Happen!
You’ve thought about a career change for a while, the ideas rolling around in your head. But for whatever reason you haven’t really acted on any of them. You’re a motivated, talented person…so why are you stuck? Chances are it’s because you don’t have enough information to make an informed decision. But lucky for you, that’s what I’ll be covering in the next few blogs: one of my very favorite topics, career exploration, and I’ve seen hundreds of times how it can really move things forward. In my experience, career exploration step is by far the most important step in the career change...
read moreStrengths: How to apply them for greater career satisfaction. Part 3.
In my previous 2 blogs, I laid out a strategy for identifying your top strengths, and then translating them into potential career roles, all toward helping you find ways to increase your career satisfaction. Now let’s spend a little time talking about specific career-satisfaction-boosting strategies. One thing I’ve noticed in my 20 plus years as a career counselor is that people love the identifying their strengths, but then aren’t sure how to apply them in their careers more successfully. Here are strategies for doing that! Strategy #1: Get involved in projects that use your...
read moreWhat’s Your Career Status? Part 2
In our most recent blog post, we talked uncovered which career status is most on track for you. Now I’ll cover specific action steps you can take to move forward. Status 1: “I’m pretty happy in my career right now and want to keep things moving forward well.” Recommended Action Steps: Articulate clear growth goals. This is important because in a conversation with your manager, if you say you want to progress, don’t rely on him or her to have the ideas for you because quite realistically they won’t. They have lots on their plate and they’re hoping you’re going to come...
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