Career Transition Is Your Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? Every Minute Counts!

Getting laid off from work can be a very emotionally draining experience. How you perceive your situation makes a huge difference in your future career success and satisfaction.

As a career/life coach, I have the privilege of working with amazingly talented professionals from all different walks of life and locations around the world. The best decision all of them made was to get help. We live in a rapidly changing world filled with constant hurdles jobseekers must jump through just to pass the applicant tracking systems (ATS) let alone get an interview by a live human being. “HOW” we take ourselves to market matters. I have seen first-hand those that embrace change, their future, and engage in coaching advice and exercises get interviews and land faster than those who don’t. That is also when a jobseeker gains the greatest ROI of their time and investment in their future careers and lives. Every minute counts and action is needed or that time is lost and it adds up.

Embracing one’s future requires a commitment, focus and discipline to build a career transition plan with your coach and then work the plan aggressively with endurance and positive thinking and positive energy. The ole saying “finding a full-time job is a full-time job” is very true and at times it may even be more than what one remembers putting in for their last full-time job.

2020 is a perfect time to find a greater purpose in your professional career as well as enhance your financial success. Reach out to me (join my LinkedIn network) and I am happy to spend time and chat with you to help you strategize your career transition and direction. 

Isn’t it time you invested in your future?

My dad would always recite this poem to me as a child and I remembered as I was writing this blog because it makes much more sense to me now than it did as a child.

Poem – I have only just a minute. By Dr. Benjamin E. Mays

I have only just a minute,

Only sixty seconds in it.

Forced upon me, can’t refuse it.

Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it.

But it’s up to me

to use it.

I must suffer if I lose it.

Give account if I abuse it.

Just a tiny little minute,

but eternity is in it.