Nostetta urallesi: How to Find a New Direction in Your Career Path

This newsletter is a guest pen publication with career and business coach Karolina Numminen as a guest of the pen.

Summer is a great time to take a fresh look at your career direction. You might finally have time and space to process the year so far and think about what's next. In this article, I'm giving you some ideas to help you find the right direction for yourself.

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Why a new direction?

Before taking any new steps, it's important to evaluate where you're now. What's working well for you in your career, what isn't, and where would you most like to see a change.

Understanding where you're coming from will make finding the right approach to address your challenge much easier. Instead of considering the overwhelming number of options available, you can focus on what would address your situation. Do you want more responsibility? More purpose? More money? More flexibility? Know what you want and go after it.

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Widen your horizon

When talking about a new career direction, we often mean the next job. The risk and effort involved in looking for something new can often keep us stuck. But change does not need to be so radical. You don't need to quit your job today and start from scratch somewhere else tomorrow. You can take all you have and all you know and use it to build something new.

Today's world offers different options, many of which can be easily implemented alongside your current job, helping you move in a new direction without much risk.

What small steps could you take in your work (or outside of it) to keep shifting your career closer to your goal one step at a time?

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Diversify your career

Sometimes, you might want to find a new direction because you believe the grass is greener elsewhere. While this may be true, in today's fast-moving world, there simply isn't any 'smart choice' career path that'll guarantee eternal success.

The smartest choice is diversifying your careers- not focusing 100% of your thoughts, time, and efforts on your current job. Because your job could be unexpectedly affected by factors such as internal changes, bad economy, or even AI.

Diversifying your career can be as simple as investing more time into networking, personal branding, growing your skills, joining a project, volunteering, or mentoring. These options could eventually grow into something bigger and provide you with a cushion in case of unexpected challenges.

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Consider your life

In the summer, we spend a lot of time on other areas of our lives: hobbies, family and friends, travelling, sports, and outdoor time. And often, we can't help but think, how could I get more of this also during the rest of the year?

Instead of strategies destined to fail, such as 'work less' or 'start work earlier to have more time in the afternoon,' how about considering what kind of life you want to live and finding a career that could support it?

Different career paths are suitable for different life goals, but you need to make very strong decisions about what you're willing to sacrifice. For example, as an entrepreneur, I don't have five weeks of paid vacation, but ultimately, I had to choose what was more worth it to me: be happy for 5 or 52 weeks a year???

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Don't do it alone

The easiest way to find your direction and start moving towards it is to have someone help you along the journey. As a business owner, I have a range of mentors and coaches. Nobody would expect me to do something so complex on my own.

And guess what? Careers are just as complex, but somehow, we're expected to figure things out on our own. If you are an ambitious professional, knowing you have great potential, why waste time stuck in a job that you know is not 'it'? Give yourself the luxury of having someone else take care of your career—hiring a career coach might become one of the best investments you've made in yourself.

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Thanks for reading!

I'm Karolina, a career coach for professionals in business and tech. New career direction is a topic I love to help with among many others. As I have experience with a wide range of client cases, nothing is off the table. It could be finding a new job for you, but it could just as well be growing into a leadership position or considering starting your own business.

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If the topics in this article resonated with you, I highly recommend booking a free one-hour intro session with me that helps us get to know each other and decide if we're the right match. You can book this session from my website , where you'll find more info about my services. I also share career-related content on my LinkedIn and will happily connect with you there!?

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