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Suggest You - Six Useful Strategies for Navigating Career Transition or Job Change [And Other Big Changes as Well]
People today are spending longer hours at work, in front of their computers, just to meet their pressing deadlines and KPIs. As a result, there are more incidents of debilitating back pain, neck ache, headaches, RSI and burnout that are reducing productivity and increasing stress leave.More than half of computer users each year develop neck or shoulder symptoms and just over one-third develop an impairment or the loss of some function [2] One survey found that backache was the most common complaint, followed by sore eyes and headaches.[1]In Australia, back problems are the leading specific musculoskeletal cause of health system expenditure, with an estimated total cost of $700 million in 1993-1994 [3].So what is the answer? By releasing the build up of physical tension, people are able to sustain their working stamina and focus without the physical ailments or a reduction in productivity. Here are 3 ways to protect your productivit
The second kind of self-acknowledgement involves your getting very clear on as many of your skills and gifts as you can and taking full ownership of them. You really need to be in full command of what it is you have to offer “out there” in the marketplace. Many people have a hard time “owning” and claiming their expertise, but it’s really essential that you know who you are and what you have to offer – not inflated, not deflated, but accurate.
In addition, extreme self-care is called for, above and beyond the usual level. Career change is hard work, which can be very depleting. You need to keep yourself nourished – do more of the things that fuel you. And you need to be sure that there are no places where energy is leaking – you need all your energy for this work.
4. Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
We love to be right. We love t
If you've received poor response from your online career site submissions, you'll soon change all that because here's a secret that most folks don't even know about. Today, we're going to use a Recruiter's Secret and use specific, pre-selected keywords. We’re going to build a more effective online profile that will draw far more responses from Monster ® and other online sites.So, let’s get started.Once you register on Monster®, choose: "Build Your Resume Online".They allow you to set up 5 different resumes or profiles. Let's just set one up for now. There are only 5 major areas that we will be concerned with here:1. Target Job Title 2. Objective 3. Resume Title 4. Job Title 5. Work ExperienceTip: every one of these fields has keyword capability, so you must use each of these areas to the fullest extent by including as many keywords as are relevant, for example:Target Job Title: 2,880 character
First of all, know up front that few people feel skilled at figuring out a new career or finding that next job. Most people find the task daunting. If you are someone who is used to feeling on top of your game, be willing to be out of your comfort zone on this one – chances are, this is not your game. And if you are usually a not-too-confident person, know that in this context, you are not alone in feeling unsure of yourself.
These strategies can help.
1. Know this: IT’S NOT A LINEAR PROCESS!
2. Network, Network, Network!
3. Be Generous With Self-Acknowledgement and Self-Care
4. Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
5. Build and Use Support Systems
6. Stay on the Plus Side
Let’s look at each of these in more detail.
1. Know this: IT’S NOT A LINEAR PROCESS!
You will experience less frustration and waste less time if you accept this and don’t try to use your left-brain to figure out the whole thing in advance. Allow for surprises, serendipitous connections, and intuitive hits.
Be very clear on your intention, stay in action, and listen to the feedback. By “listen to the feedback,” I mean observe your results. Notice what’s working and what isn’t. Keep doing what’s working. Stop doing what’s not working and get some help with it – try to figure out WHY it’s not working, and fix it if it’s fixable. Stay in action!
Did you ever play the board game Clue? Remember the secret passage from the Kitchen to the Ballroom? In a career process, you never know when or where you will find a secret passage!
2. Network, Network, Network!
Let everyone know what you are up to, and let them know how they can help you. I mean everyone. Not just your closest friends and your siblings, everyone! That means the people you run into, your neighbors, your hairdresser, your colleagues, your doctor, dentist, accountant, attorney, the folks who service your car, and so forth.
Have you ever been able to be helpful to someone who wanted to make a connection of some sort? Have you, for example, ever been able to give someone the name of a great housepainter (electrician, accountant, chiropractor) when they asked? It’s an easy and delightful thing to do for another person. Let the people in your life have that opportunity with you. Let them know how they can help you. Is there a company or an industry you wish you knew somebody in so you could talk to them? Ask around.
During my own career exploration that eventually led me to coaching, there was a point at which I wanted to deliver some corporate training on issues pertaining to personal and organizational change. Although I knocked directly on corporate doors, my breakthrough opportunity came from a student in one of the music classes I was teaching at the time. She asked me to do training for her staffs on “Managing Change.” She knew of my interest because I had told the class what I was up to.
Of course, if your exploration needs to be confidential, you will need to be more discrete in the way that you do it. Do your networking quietly, but do your networking.
3. Be Generous With Self-Acknowledgement and Self-Care
Two kinds of self-acknowledgement are required during a career change.
First, you must regularly acknowledge yourself for the hard work you are doing.
There is a 4-part cycle that your work is part of: 1. Set a goal, 2. Do the work, 3. Meet the goal, and 4. Acknowledge and celebrate. The fourth part is equivalent to a paycheck and a boss saying to you, “Good job. I appreciate the work you’re doing!” Your self-acknowledgement can be simple and sweet.
The second kind of self-acknowledgement involves your getting very clear on as many of your skills and gifts as you can and taking full ownership of them. You really need to be in full command of what it is you have to offer “out there” in the marketplace. Many people have a hard time “owning” and claiming their expertise, but it’s really essential that you know who you are and what you have to offer – not inflated, not deflated, but accurate.
In addition, extreme self-care is called for, above and beyond the usual level. Career change is hard work, which can be very depleting. You need to keep yourself nourished – do more of the things that fuel you. And you need to be sure that there are no places where energy is leaking – you need all your energy for this work.
4. Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
We love to be right. We love to
In 2006 sulfur will no longer be in diesel fuel as per legislation signed into law by President Clinton. The EPA laws will soon be effective. So you want to take the Sulfur out of Diesel Fuel? Great, but not now; we need to phase this in. Perhaps require in two years that every truck manufactured not need it, and then eliminate the fuel in six years by raising the cost slowly as trucking companies trade in old units and retrofit those before re-sold. By that time we will all be looking into other technologies anyway. Slowing down the dollar and having a weak dollar may seem like the answer to improve the impending trade deficit, but at what cost?Why should we give back all of our economic expansion because other currencies and countries cannot legitimately control their corruption or protectionism long enough to improve themselves? We are allowing those who are not forthright with their own affairs to be rewarded and the United States who is doi
Let’s look at each of these in more detail.
1. Know this: IT’S NOT A LINEAR PROCESS!
You will experience less frustration and waste less time if you accept this and don’t try to use your left-brain to figure out the whole thing in advance. Allow for surprises, serendipitous connections, and intuitive hits.
Be very clear on your intention, stay in action, and listen to the feedback. By “listen to the feedback,” I mean observe your results. Notice what’s working and what isn’t. Keep doing what’s working. Stop doing what’s not working and get some help with it – try to figure out WHY it’s not working, and fix it if it’s fixable. Stay in action!
Did you ever play the board game Clue? Remember the secret passage from the Kitchen to the Ballroom? In a career process, you never know when or where you will find a secret passage!
2. Network, Network, Network!
Let everyone know what you are up to, and let them know how they can help you. I mean everyone. Not just your closest friends and your siblings, everyone! That means the people you run into, your neighbors, your hairdresser, your colleagues, your doctor, dentist, accountant, attorney, the folks who service your car, and so forth.
Have you ever been able to be helpful to someone who wanted to make a connection of some sort? Have you, for example, ever been able to give someone the name of a great housepainter (electrician, accountant, chiropractor) when they asked? It’s an easy and delightful thing to do for another person. Let the people in your life have that opportunity with you. Let them know how they can help you. Is there a company or an industry you wish you knew somebody in so you could talk to them? Ask around.
During my own career exploration that eventually led me to coaching, there was a point at which I wanted to deliver some corporate training on issues pertaining to personal and organizational change. Although I knocked directly on corporate doors, my breakthrough opportunity came from a student in one of the music classes I was teaching at the time. She asked me to do training for her staffs on “Managing Change.” She knew of my interest because I had told the class what I was up to.
Of course, if your exploration needs to be confidential, you will need to be more discrete in the way that you do it. Do your networking quietly, but do your networking.
3. Be Generous With Self-Acknowledgement and Self-Care
Two kinds of self-acknowledgement are required during a career change.
First, you must regularly acknowledge yourself for the hard work you are doing.
There is a 4-part cycle that your work is part of: 1. Set a goal, 2. Do the work, 3. Meet the goal, and 4. Acknowledge and celebrate. The fourth part is equivalent to a paycheck and a boss saying to you, “Good job. I appreciate the work you’re doing!” Your self-acknowledgement can be simple and sweet.
The second kind of self-acknowledgement involves your getting very clear on as many of your skills and gifts as you can and taking full ownership of them. You really need to be in full command of what it is you have to offer “out there” in the marketplace. Many people have a hard time “owning” and claiming their expertise, but it’s really essential that you know who you are and what you have to offer – not inflated, not deflated, but accurate.
In addition, extreme self-care is called for, above and beyond the usual level. Career change is hard work, which can be very depleting. You need to keep yourself nourished – do more of the things that fuel you. And you need to be sure that there are no places where energy is leaking – you need all your energy for this work.
4. Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
We love to be right. We love t
The majority of executive job seekers prefer to undertake their campaigns as efficiently as possible: find a prospective employee, prepare and send a resume, wait for a response. Many, however, lose time and opportunities needlessly or, worse, settle for lower job offers because they have not promoted themselves in an effective manner.The following approach can help you create an impact in the job market – and help make your executive job search a success.A Frequent OccurrenceWhile surfing for a new executive position, you see one that is a perfect match. You quickly send in your resume. You know you have a better than average chance because of your experiences, your academic qualifications, your accomplishments to date. More importantly, since you are among the first to respond to the posting, you think you are ahead of the pack.What you may not realize is that hundreds, if not thousands, of other executives are
Have you ever been able to be helpful to someone who wanted to make a connection of some sort? Have you, for example, ever been able to give someone the name of a great housepainter (electrician, accountant, chiropractor) when they asked? It’s an easy and delightful thing to do for another person. Let the people in your life have that opportunity with you. Let them know how they can help you. Is there a company or an industry you wish you knew somebody in so you could talk to them? Ask around.
During my own career exploration that eventually led me to coaching, there was a point at which I wanted to deliver some corporate training on issues pertaining to personal and organizational change. Although I knocked directly on corporate doors, my breakthrough opportunity came from a student in one of the music classes I was teaching at the time. She asked me to do training for her staffs on “Managing Change.” She knew of my interest because I had told the class what I was up to.
Of course, if your exploration needs to be confidential, you will need to be more discrete in the way that you do it. Do your networking quietly, but do your networking.
3. Be Generous With Self-Acknowledgement and Self-Care
Two kinds of self-acknowledgement are required during a career change.
First, you must regularly acknowledge yourself for the hard work you are doing.
There is a 4-part cycle that your work is part of: 1. Set a goal, 2. Do the work, 3. Meet the goal, and 4. Acknowledge and celebrate. The fourth part is equivalent to a paycheck and a boss saying to you, “Good job. I appreciate the work you’re doing!” Your self-acknowledgement can be simple and sweet.
The second kind of self-acknowledgement involves your getting very clear on as many of your skills and gifts as you can and taking full ownership of them. You really need to be in full command of what it is you have to offer “out there” in the marketplace. Many people have a hard time “owning” and claiming their expertise, but it’s really essential that you know who you are and what you have to offer – not inflated, not deflated, but accurate.
In addition, extreme self-care is called for, above and beyond the usual level. Career change is hard work, which can be very depleting. You need to keep yourself nourished – do more of the things that fuel you. And you need to be sure that there are no places where energy is leaking – you need all your energy for this work.
4. Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
We love to be right. We love t
Until the early 1900’s staffing agencies, also known as employment agencies, generally did not exist. Communities were smaller, and because there was no telephone or internet, people communicated face to face. People in small towns knew each other and hiring was based on that personal knowledge. One of the first staffing agencies was created in 1906 in response to the enormous calamity of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. With an entire city of people displaced, there was an urgent need to hire workers on a mass scale to re-establish businesses that had been destroyed by the earthquake and fire, and to rebuild the city. Out of this urgent need to match workers to jobs the staffing agency industry was born.Today the staffing industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. There are many staffing companies with more than $1 Billion in sales; the number of companies with over $100 Million in sales grew in 2006. According to the American Staffing A
Of course, if your exploration needs to be confidential, you will need to be more discrete in the way that you do it. Do your networking quietly, but do your networking.
3. Be Generous With Self-Acknowledgement and Self-Care
Two kinds of self-acknowledgement are required during a career change.
First, you must regularly acknowledge yourself for the hard work you are doing.
There is a 4-part cycle that your work is part of: 1. Set a goal, 2. Do the work, 3. Meet the goal, and 4. Acknowledge and celebrate. The fourth part is equivalent to a paycheck and a boss saying to you, “Good job. I appreciate the work you’re doing!” Your self-acknowledgement can be simple and sweet.
The second kind of self-acknowledgement involves your getting very clear on as many of your skills and gifts as you can and taking full ownership of them. You really need to be in full command of what it is you have to offer “out there” in the marketplace. Many people have a hard time “owning” and claiming their expertise, but it’s really essential that you know who you are and what you have to offer – not inflated, not deflated, but accurate.
In addition, extreme self-care is called for, above and beyond the usual level. Career change is hard work, which can be very depleting. You need to keep yourself nourished – do more of the things that fuel you. And you need to be sure that there are no places where energy is leaking – you need all your energy for this work.
4. Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
We love to be right. We love t
Starting A Resume Writing ServiceA resume writing service is one of the top home businesses that allows owners to put in there own hours and get extremely rewarded for there work. There are no special skill sets, college degrees, or fancy computers needed to operate. A resume business can be operated right from the comfort of your own home, with as little as your current computer, printer, and a little ambition.When starting any home business, keeping initial start-up cost to a minimum are very important. The number 1 mistake entrepreneurs make when starting a new home business is acquiring debt. With a resume business, your computer is your most important asset.Once you have a portion of your home designated to operate your business, you can began thinking about how you are going to get clients. A great way to start is with your local newspapers, yellowpages, and flyers. While you don’t have to keep your business local, it always
The second kind of self-acknowledgement involves your getting very clear on as many of your skills and gifts as you can and taking full ownership of them. You really need to be in full command of what it is you have to offer “out there” in the marketplace. Many people have a hard time “owning” and claiming their expertise, but it’s really essential that you know who you are and what you have to offer – not inflated, not deflated, but accurate.
In addition, extreme self-care is called for, above and beyond the usual level. Career change is hard work, which can be very depleting. You need to keep yourself nourished – do more of the things that fuel you. And you need to be sure that there are no places where energy is leaking – you need all your energy for this work.
4. Choose Expansive vs. Limiting Beliefs
We love to be right. We love to see our beliefs proven true. Those of us who think that people are basically good tend to see the world through that filter. Take a good hard look at the beliefs that are your filter, particularly where they pertain to work, money and opportunity. Do you believe that people “like you” (your gender, age, level of experience) don’t have a chance in the job market? If so, then you will not have a chance because you will not see the opportunities out there for you. Does part of you believe that having money is not a good thing? If so, then you will manifest that ambivalence by not attracting more of it than you already have.
5. Build and Use Support Systems
Do not do this alone. Hire a coach, join or form a group, find a success buddy, create a structured arrangement with a friend. Here are the important elements you want in your support structure: you want people who believe in you and in your quest; you want something structured, so that there is a routine to the support.
In a structured arrangement with a friend for example, you could set it up so each of you gets a 5-minute check-in to report on what you have accomplished since the last time you spoke. And you need to end by getting clear on what your next steps are for today and until the next time you meet.
6. Stay on the Plus Side
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Then start climbing out.
There will be some days you feel inspired, excited, and pumped. There may be other days you feel discouraged, tired, and disenchanted. You need to develop a strong witness to these ups and downs, that is, develop a part of you that is able to stand outside the feelings and simply observe. When you can observe your feelings as well as experience them, you have power and options.
When you’re “up,” use the time constructively – this is a great time to take risks, to talk with people, to be bold. When you are feeling low, it is critical that you recognize it for what it is – a feeling – and use your skills to get yourself into a more constructive and energetic space. Start developing an inventory of activities and strategies that get you out of these low places. Everyone’s inventory will be a little different. Some people are uplifted by spending time in nature; other people get lifted out of discouragement by sharing with friends what’s going on for them and letting the friends help them. And even when you’re feeling low, you can stay in action. It may not be the time to make phone calls, but it can be a great time to do research on the internet, or pick up your suits at the cleaners.
In summary, career transition or job change is a challenging life event. Take very good care of yourself during this process – do not take yourself for granted. Let others contribute to your quest in a variety of ways. And enjoy the adventure!
COPYRIGHT 2000, Sharon Teitelbaum. All rights reserved.
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