Ten Steps to a Successful Career Change
OUR LIST - IT WILL IMPROVE OVER TIME
Career plan - annually. Map out your career path. Set goals.
Assess your career satisfaction, interests, values and skills. Brainstorm with friends. Follow your dreams. Examine your pastimes and hobbies. Visualize.
Use the Internet to both find jobs and research new industries.
Learn as much as you can about each career under consideration. Shadow professionals in the various career fields of interest.
Investigate educational opportunities that would bridge your background to the new field.
Investigate job training and education opportunities. Find volunteer or freelance activities related to the targeted fields.
Consider the stability of the new job opportunities and the trends of the new industry.
Explore a variety of career opportunities, and consider alternative roles within your current industry. Dissatisfaction may be a matter of current circumstances, and changing industries may be an unwise move away from one's accumulated strengths. Explore ways to develop new skills in your current job.
Understand your worth and ROI to your current employer in order to explain how those results can be repeated elsewhere.
Plan ahead for the financial transition necessary.
