Happy New Year!
Career change can feel very daunting and ‘all or nothing’, which is especially challenging at times of uncertainty.
At a time of slow economic growth, combined with the rising cost of living, but salaries not keeping up, is making a career change a good idea or not?
There are many types of career change, from evolutionary to revolutionary, internal and external. It doesn’t have to be a big change e.g. completely changing career direction or leaving the security of a full time job.
Here are 30 different types of ‘career change’:
- Changing your attitude to your current job
- Job-redesign – staying with your current employer but doing a different role
- Studying for a further qualification to increase your long-term career prospects (your employer funds or you fund yourself)
- Taking on additional responsibility at work to build visibility, gain new experience and skills and pave the way for a future promotion internally or externally
- Volunteering to be a mentor to develop new skills and help others
- Getting involved in your employer’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme to make a difference, broaden your network and increase your own career fulfilment
- Setting up a business
- Evolving a current business in a different direction
- A career breakthrough e.g. getting a pay rise, promotion or new job
- Moving from full time employment to interim or freelance work
- Changing from the private sector to work in the public sector
- Moving from private practice to in-house
- Creating a portfolio career – a career with multiple work strands
- Changing career direction completely
- Securing a more junior role for less stress and better work life balance, rather than a senior role
- Creating an ‘encore’ career pre-retirement
- Getting on the right career path as a graduate
- Switching careers without training
- Returning as a Returner post maternity leave back into employment
- Returning into employment having taken a career break to travel
- Evolving your career to have more meaning and fulfilment
- Creating a business from a natural gift or hobby
- Achieving a dream job
- From redundancy/gardening leave into a new job
- A career secondment internally
- A career secondment externally
- Taking a career sabbatical to take stock and rethink what next
- Moving from full time employment to part time employment
- Moving from full time employment to a part time job plus freelance work
- Moving from a full-time job to a full-time job plus a non-executive director position
What other career changes can you think of? What’s your career goal in 2017 and how can we help?
Here are some examples of clients we have worked with and how a career change does not have to be big and scary.
TH negotiated to stay with their current employer but from a full time 5 day a week job to a permanent contract working 4 days a week, freeing them up to develop their future portfolio career.
DW decided to improve their career fulfilment by staying with their employer working 4 days a week and using the fifth working day each week being a trustee for a couple of charities that meant a lot to them.
NW achieved a full-time role working at a less senior level saying no the high level salary and bonus plus stresses and responsibilities of a director level position, and gaining better work life balance and doing the work they enjoyed at a more junior level role.
Having already made one successful career transition with our support from working as an engineer for British Gas to working on oil rigs, DM got in touch as they had to re-think their career direction as a result of the fall in oil prices and reduced use of contractors. Result? They have found a new engineering role on land near to their home with their employer funding a qualification which will enhance their career prospects and options longer term.
EM’s employer was merging with a much larger company giving them a forced career crossroads and a culture that did not appeal to them. They decided with our coaching support to accept a full-time job with a different employer, without the responsibility of managing a department, a new role at a reduced salary but with the stimulation of lots of learning, something that was very appealing to them.
What career change are you seeking and how can we help?
What next?
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