You’ve got a job offer. Brilliant! Before you accept and break out the bubbles, take time to check that it genuinely fits your bill.
Whether or not you’ve made a complete career change, the first few weeks at a new job can be challenging. Here are 8 ways to a smarter, smoother fresh start.
Career changers are confronted by lots of scary ideas. One of these is the ‘sticky stat’ that 80% of jobs never get advertised. It is certainly true that people ‘in the know’ fill lots of brilliant career openings that never get advertised. However the 80% statistic is a relic of the ‘pre-Internet’ 1980s‘ and is now is seriously dodgy.
Despite the similarities, we don’t usually approach job applications as a form of performance art. In fact, winning any kind of role – vocational or theatrical, depends in large part (pun intended) on honing a set of wow worthy auditioning skills.
Decide to change careers, and chances are you’ll find that a little or a lot of what you thought you knew about who you are and what matters to you has shifted, is shifting or needs to shift.
Changing careers can be a lot like training to run a marathon. Sometimes, your energy and rhythm flow. Then there are times when you wonder if you’re even on the right road. It feels like the force has deserted you.
One of the early things I help career change clients figure out is what precisely needs fixing or changing. Is it the job or is it the career?
