You know it is time for a job change or a change of career if you feel bored or de-motivated by your work. The best way to manage any job or change of career is to anticipate it.
Does your job have a future or is it in a dying industry? Has your company made people redundant recently?
Are you keeping your skills up to date? How do your skills fit in with the current market? If you are stuck in a rut, want to change profession or have been made redundant, this could be the time to take stock and build on your existing skills or even pursue that new career direction and change of career.
Recognise where you are within your career before making a change
It is important to recognise where you are within your career development and to notice the ‘unseen’ and ‘unnoticed’ bits so that you can be active and realistic in your career change.
What do you wish to become? What do you want to be? Do you need to re-train? Is the career pathway ahead clear? Could you benefit from some additional career advice? What do you want to gain from a change in career?
If you are looking to change job or change of career, check out the advice listed on the right hand side.
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More Career Change Advice
Change of Career Advice
- Career Direction – Do you need to change career direction?
- Career Change – Are you ready for one?
- Self Employment – Breaking Free
- Career Jobs – Do you wish you had a better job?
- Get a Job – How long will it take you to secure a new job?
- Change Jobs – Are you stuck in a career rut?
- Career Guide – How to get out of the ‘survival state’ and have what you really want