Workplace: Once You’ve Decicided To Change Your Career, What Should You Do?

If someone wants to make a career change they would be foolish to do so without researching first. However, that research is twofold. Being successful at a career means researching yourself and the career you want to employ. Without knowing yourself, you won’t make a good decision for yourself. Here are some questions you can ask yourself to know yourself better when it comes to career:

*What do I like?
* What do I dislike?
*What that I dislike am I willing to do and not willing to do?
* what do I do well?
* What do others think I do well?
*What do I not do well?
*What do others not think I do well?
*What’s my energy like?
*What makes me happy?
*What makes me good at a job?
*What kind of personal life do I have and what kind of personal life do I want?

Then, you can research the job and the career and ask some of the following questions:

*Is my personality suited to this job? This career?
*Is my energy suited to this career?
*Is my personal life and my goals for my personal life suited to this career?
*Does this career offer enough money for me to earn to support myself? If not, am I willing to make changes in my lifestyle to undertake success in this career?

How can career changers avoid getting stuck in the same situation that they’re trying to get out of?

If you know yourself and you know your career and you are a good matchmaker when it comes to you and your job/career, then you won’t get stuck. But knowing yourself is a lifelong process that takes wisdom, discipline and intelligence, as well as the ability to recognize patterns in yourself and others.

Career counselors can help by offering you vocational and personality tests that may be able to better help you know yourself and careers. However, a wise person may be able to do this on their own, and often do a better job than a career counselor may be able to do by offering vocational testing.

What are some of the most novel, successful career-changing cases you’ve seen recently?

Lots of people are using the new technology to change careers or leverage their careers into different phases. Telecommuting is a huge new phase of careers, and working from home are also big career changes. The technology industry itself has provided a large job base that didn’t exist before.