How can I change my professional field?
Alvin Leung
Performance Consultant who believes in people's potential and possibilities! | HR Consultant, Corporate Trainer, Leadership Coach
How to change from a recruiter to be a HR consultant? I wanna change my professional field.
I was being asked in Guangzhou, China after my seminar. The first toss-back question I gave is, why you want to change field and the answer is conventional. After years of same career, passion to execute further is getting down.
I just got two points for my sharing.
- Explore further in your current profession provided that things are keeping disruptive evolution.
Provided that the future AI can make much higher accuracy of matching and the talent assessment, what could be the core value remaining for human recruiter to create? Definitely, it is more on talent attraction. Or in a more explicit way to say, it should be the leadership to influence people joining the team actualising the common goal!
And if it makes sense, what you need to do in your immediate next step as a recruiter is to invest yourself in coaching skill development. And I am sure that when you take a new next step, you will then be able to feel differently and your so-called boredom at the same job will just simply disappear. Nothing is about the repetitive job, it’s all about the repetitive thinking towards the way of doing job!
2. When you keep on investing yourself, you are opening more doors for your future to choose.
If point number 1 makes sense to you, then you really start investing to learn coaching. At the end, no matter you still wanna stay with the recruiter career or not, you will be able to wear another hat for being a coach. And at that moment of time, if you want to shift your career to be a HR consultant, you would have higher chance since you have got one more weapon other than just the recruitment skill. Furthermore, your own successful experience in transforming yourself would be an evidence in your future consultation of change management. You just manage well to change yourself. I don’t believe people can change others without changing themselves!
In brief, don’t stop there. Think a little bit differently and do a little bit boldly.