Making a career change is more about endurance than it is about strength. Thank goodness.
Read it all on The Muse.
Research continues to show that you’ll have numerous career paths in your lifetime. Millennials, for example, are expecting to stay in jobs less than three years and most undoubtedly will change careers as their idea of a dream job changes.
Whether you’re a few years into your career or in the middle of it, if you’ve ever attempted to change course, you know it isn’t easy. After all, you have a certain set of experiences, knowledge, and skills, and you can’t just do anything with them, can you?
Yet, you’ve targeted the next avenue you want to go down, but you have zero, zilch, nada on the five years of experience that employer wants to see in the ideal candidate. It’s frustrating enough to have you thinking you might as well just keep doing the same old thing, so convinced you are that you’ll never get hired without several years’ experience in the new field.
But that’s not the right mindset. There are ways to segue from one path to another, and here are five steps to help you get there.
1. Mentally Prepare
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2. Inventory Your Genius
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3. Investigate Your Dream Job
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4. Translate Your Brilliance
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5. Pitch Yourself in a New Way
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Get all the details on The Muse here.
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Once you’ve read the article, let me know if you want to schedule a quick call to get your career change jump started. You’ll be amazed how much ground we can cover in a one hour job search strategy call.
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