Ways to make a Career Change

When it comes to choosing or changing a career, go for any career that seems interesting or fascinating to you. Start by talking to people who are already doing the job you are interested in.

Some questions to ask:

• What do you like best about this work?
• What do you like least about this work?
• How did you get into this work?
• These questions will give you the clues you need to help with your job hunting strategies.

Find out what your favorite skills are, what is your favorite working conditions, preferred salary, and what are your goals and values. How much time will you be able to put into your search.

Develop a visual, draw a map, draw a picture of y our ideal life, where you will live, who you will be with you, what you will be doing, or better yet cut out pictures and glue them to a piece of paper, what ever will help you develop your visual.

• Do you like to work with your hands,
• Are you social, or investigative, artistic or realistic, enterprising or conventional.

Which one are you?

Realistic people have athletic or mechanical ability, they prefer to work with objects, machines, tools, plants, animals or like to be outdoors.

Conventional people like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, carrying things out in detail or following through on others instructions.

Enterprising people like to work with people, influencing, persuading or performing or leading or managing for organizational goals or for economic gain.

Investigative people like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems.

Artistic people are artistic, innovative, intuitive abilities and like to work in unstructured situations, using their imagination or creativity.

Social people like to work with people to inform, enlighten, help, train, develop or cure them or are skilled with words.

The most important environmental factor at any job

is the people so it is important to surround yourself with people that fit with who you are.

Research and set goals, study the markets, get to know who you are on the inside and reflect on how that will relate to the career you choose to do.

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