Five Essential Career Change Strategies

Five Essential Career Change Strategies

1. Learn Survival Skills

Three attitudes necessary for survival and how to overcome your real or perceived handicaps in the job market:

First, You should find whatever is in your power to change in your particular situation and throw yourself into it.

Second, Look forward, not backward and rethink and revisit all the strategies you have been using up until now.

Third, Try to believe that everything that happens to you has a meaning, which gives you a real advantage over others who are looking for a career change or a new job.

Things that may be impeding your search can range from poor self-image, to a prison record, to being over or under qualified, to being too young or too old or to having an illness or physical handicap. Bolles then makes a distinction between an employer’s prejudices and your perceived disability or disadvantage. You can overcome your disability with most employers if you demonstrate confidence and energy. If you are an older job applicant, it is important to describe yourself in terms of what skills you have that would be useful in that particular job precisely because you are older.

2. Develop job-hunting strategies

You need to size up an employer, how to improve your profile and network using social media sites as well as the dangers inherent in their use, how to write a more informative and selling resume and how to make sure it gets read, some alternatives to a classic resume, and sixteen tips on how to perform well in a job interview.

3. Take the initiative

In the current job market it may be necessary to create your own business or begin a new career. One of the ways to start a business is to buy a franchise or start a home business, or one outside the home. In order to be successful in starting a new business, he stresses the importance of stringent research and preparation before getting started, giving a detailed description of what that means. Bolles goes on to talk about changing careers to an entirely new field. One of the tools by which to assess your skills to see where your abilities lie is the career aptitude test.

4. Know your strengths

An essential part of approaching the business of job-hunting is to decide what you want to do and to figure out what knowledge and skills you bring to the table to accomplish your mission. You need to do a self-inventory that will fit on one piece of paper and which will serve as a road map for future reference.

5. Lead a purpose-driven life

We are all put on earth to find a mission in life, so we can live with purpose. A belief in God is an important part of the search for finding our true vocation. A period of unemployment offers the opportunity to step back and reflect on what should be our true calling in life.

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