Expand Your Qualifications with New Skills

Is there a job you would like to have but do not have the skills for that job? Perhaps there is even a job in your current company that you would like to do if you were qualified. Find ways to develop those skills.

First, Find the Skills that You Need.
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Second, Develop those Skills.
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Identify Your Career Options

Identify your career options. Develop a refined list of options by examining your interests, skills, and values through self-assessment, researching companies, and talking to experienced professionals. You can further narrow your list when you take part in experiences such as shadowing or working alongside a company employee, volunteering, or internships.

Next, list all the things you need to do to accomplish your career goals.

Here are questions to ask to create a strategy for your career.

    1. Location: Where Do You Want to Live?
    2. Type of Job or Industry: What Do You Want to Do?
    3. How Well Do You Work with Other People?
    4. Opportunities for Promotion: Do You Want to Lead People?
    5. Money: How Important is Income?
    6. Risk: How Well Do You Tolerate Risk?
    7. Do You have a Mentor or Advisor?
    8. Job Security: What are the Risks of Playing It Safe?
    9. What Education Do You Need?
    10. What Experience Do You Need?
    11. Should You Take an Aptitude Test?
    12. Who Hires People with Your Goals and Qualifications?

The Stress of a Job Change

Just the process of seeking a new job requires effort and creates stress. Meeting new people in networking and interviewing is stressful for most people. If you have a job, making interviews with another company creates the stress of getting away from your work without being discovered.Ā 

Along with normal life experiences of getting married, buying a house, and having children, starting a new job is among the most rewarding and yet stressful life-changing events.Ā Changing jobs often means leaving friends and leaving familiar routines to go to a place where you donā€™t know anyone and where the people, the ways of working, and the culture are completely different.Ā 

Each phase of a well-planned job change begins with having the best information about what you need to know and what you stand to gain or lose. Therefore, if you are having difficulties with your current job and you have found that you cannot improve these conditions, begin to discuss your plans to make a change with your friends and family. From there, begin to research the most effective step you will take at each step of the way.Ā 

Income and Job Changes

If a hiring manager or recruiter calls you and you have no interest in making a job change but would like to begin to develop a relationship so that you can have people toĀ contact for future needs, you are smart to avoid a discussion of income.

These people have no need to know your income until you get serious about making a job change.

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