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Career Change May No Longer be an Option!

January 29, 2009
By: Randi Bussin-Career Coach, Personal Branding Specialist

Career Reinvention May No Longer Be an Option

 

Just read the newspapers and add up the number of job cuts. Tuesday’s WSJ announced close to 80,000 job cuts, including Caterpillar, Home Depot, Sprint Nextel, ING Group and others. Jobs are imploding and so are industries.

 

If you have not thought about changing careers and reinventing yourself, maybe now is the time to step back and rethink your future. Better to have a plan than get caught off guard.

 

For many of you, this may sound overwhelming and daunting-and rightly so. Career change and transition can be very scary. Starting this week, I will be blogging every few days on the steps necessary to begin the process of career reinvention.

 

The first part of this process is very introspective, so I encourage you to buy a journal and keep track of your daily thoughts, ideas, revelations and recurring themes, all in one place.

 

Step One:

 

Assess your Likes and Dislikes

 

Think about your current or most recent role. Identifying what you dislike is often easier to define than what you do like, so we’ll start there.

 

§         With a bit of distance, try to identify the aspects of the role you dislike(d).

§         Are your dissatisfactions related to the company culture and the people you work with?

§         Or are they more related to the actual content of your work?

§         Do you dislike the industry, what it stands for and the products/services produced?

 

Now to your likes:

 

§         What do you enjoy doing at work, even if you are not/were not able to do it in your current/most recent role?

§         What others industries are you drawn to?

§         What do you like to do when you are not working-in your spare time?

 

Coming up next….Assessing your motivated skills

©2012, Randi Bussin, Aspire!

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