Ready To Take a Career Leap? Here's How!
How do you begin making big changes in your career? Most of us would begin by asking ourselves "What isn't working in my career right now?"
Maybe you need a new job -- either because you're not working or you know that the job you're in right now is not a job that will grow your flame.
Maybe you're ready to change careers, because your old career path disappeared on you or because you're ready for something new.
Maybe you love your job and you want to get ahead and get the professional recognition and rewards your deserve.
Maybe the time has come for you to start your own consulting business!
Here are three steps to get your Career Leap underway:
Ask Yourself "What Do I Want?"
Think about and answer this question for yourself: "What will be different in my career -- and by extension, my life -- one year from now, after I've taken the leap? How will my life be better then than it is right now?"
Journal about Your Vision
Get a journal and write in it, every day or every few days. Write about the life and career you want, in as much detail as possible. This exercise will require you to make lots of decisions -- big ones and small ones. What kind of job do you want, exactly?
No one is holding you accountable to bring about your vision, and certainly not on any particular timeline -- your career vision is yours alone, to mull over and to pursue step-by-step or in a hurry. You don't have to tell anyone about your vision for your career, but you do have to decide what you really want. (How else will you get what you want?)
Where will you work? What kind of work will you be doing? How much will you get paid? The more specifically you envision your future, the more easily you'll spot opportunities to make your vision real!
Make a Plan
Once you are clear on where you're going, it's time to take a step! Your first step could be researching new career paths, or thinking about the services you will offer in your new consulting business.
Your first step might be to write your Human-Voiced Resume or to get altitude on your current job by diagramming the work you perform in it.
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8 年Great Post and its very helpful sir
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8 年Thank you for an inspiring post Michael. I rely enjoy Liz and your posts. Am do keen to do some of your courses but with our awful exchange rate to the dollar its just not doable for me currently. I am job hunting and hope to find something good soon. Take care.
Love the recommendation of writing in a journal!
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8 年Nice one
How do you begin making big changes in your career? Most of us would begin by asking ourselves "What isn't working in my career right now?" My answer to this question came easy. As an aspiring Accounting Professional, it dawned on me to make a paradigm shift from accounting focused work to a more general business management focus. I always wanted be a dynamic business-oriented professional as opposed to say an "Accounting Clerk" who's job description potentially limited you to "Accounting". At my last role as an Accounting Professional, I drew weary of the fact that I was always crunching numbers and the sales men were always travelling and getting new business, I wasnt having it. Period. The paradigm shift had come. Maybe you need a new job -- either because you're not working or you know that the job you're in right now is not a job that will grow your flame. I realised that I needed a career that involves growth, movement, interaction with different people; in other words, dynamism. Maybe you're ready to change careers, because your old career path disappeared on you or because you're ready for something new. Although I am not jumping to conclusion that the Accounting Professional aspect of my career is over; I'm just reinventing it.