Fired my Job, let’s rock Career Changing
Do you often .. .
- Question whether you should pursue a new career?
- Back away too quickly from new occupational possibilities because of family obligations and responsibilities?
- Dream about being in your own business?
- Hold back from updating your resume?
- Fear getting dismissed from your job?
- Think that retirement will be the ideal solution to all or most of your work worries?
People who are unhappy at work can dwell upon the types of issues listed above. This will address some practical approaches whereby you can deal with job distress, instead of worrying about it. The issues to be discussed include: preparing for a possible career change; drafting your resume; considering starting your own business; coping with dismissal; and planning for retirement.
Preparing for a career change
Having analysed your present employment situation using the stay or leave, you may have come to the decision that it’s time to consider a new career. This goes well beyond just getting another job doing the same type of work. Starting a new career is like leaving a very familiar park pathway and taking a trembling step into a foreboding forest full of possible dangers.
If changing your career seems attractive and alluring, then it’s very important to get some outside views on the matter. Discuss your thoughts about a career change with your spouse or partner and perhaps a trusted work colleague. Getting objective opinions from people who know you well is very important as employment decisions can be emotional concerns. You want your future work to be determined by firm rational decision making and certainly not by emotional and impulsive action.
If your own thoughts and your friends’ advice suggest that a move is warranted, then the next question is, What careers should I consider? Hopefully, you will have various possibilities in mind and you will have been keeping abreast of new developments and opportunities in these fields of interest. While perusals of newspaper ads, employment bulletins and other information sources may have been cursory and casual in the past, the situation now requires a much more specific approach.
Career exploration is best done in a methodical way. Start a file on new career possibilities. Write the names of your career choices at the top of separate pieces of loose leaf notebook paper. Think widely and don’t be too cautious at this stage. The initial goal is to get down as many ideas as possible.
Having started your file, jot down the following subcategories under each career title.
- Career title
- Salary
- Qualifications required
- Personal qualities desirable
- Technical skills necessary
- Additional training needed
- Employment location
- Career prospects
- Long-term financial prospects
Leave space under each heading for jotting down information as it is collected. If you use a computer, the information can be recorded using a filing program such as the Personal File System or Cardbox. Spend some time each day working on information collection. Your thoughts will become more focused and clear as the details are obtained and filed.
Periodically, sift through your career categories and filter out those which appear to be impractical or unrealistic based upon the information you have at hand. Just as employers form a short list of applicants for a job, your task is to form a similar short list of careers which you want to pursue further.
Having formed a short list, discuss the list with your spouse, partner or close friend. Additionally, you may also wish to obtain the advice of a financial advisor, such as an accountant, bank manager or some other similar resource person. Detailed financial advice will be particularly important if you presently have considerable family responsibilities or a complicated employee benefits package. Just sorting out the pros and cons about superannuation can be a difficult matter for the financially inexperienced person. Be sure to send along the relevant financial documents prior to your interview so that the financial advisor has time to study them thoroughly before your appointment.
With your thoughts focused upon a short list and with the benefit of detailed information from various expert advisors, it may be very helpful to make a few prospecting visits to organisations which have the type of jobs which interest you. Don’t be put off by the fact that there have not been any employment ads for the positions of interest. Your purpose at this stage is to get a gut feeling for the people doing that type of job and for the places where these careers are common. If your general reactions are positive, take the next step—approach the employing person or the personnel office to make your interest known.
The ideas suggested above are essentially self-initiated tasks. You may also go to various resource people, such as a psychologist specialising in career counselling, for assistance in finding the most appropriate employment area for you. The important point to keep in mind is that you want to explore yourself and your interests so that you can find as much satisfaction as possible in your next job.
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