How Do You Make A Successful Career Change

Working in retaill for examples when you have transferable skills for a sales role can be daunting at interview but many people change career and feel the need to study for a qualification (this can largely be done online).

Most of us dream of making changes in our lives, of reinventing ourselves and our careers. But financial considerations, the anxiety of the unknown, and fear of failure often prevent us from going for it.

Change is hard—and it’s scary. But it’s also well within our grasp.

1. The search

All career changes begin with a search to do something different.

“This is when you start collecting information about where you’re actually going to end up,”. “The cool thing about this search phase is that almost everybody I interviewed didn’t realize they were searching. It was totally unintentional.”

Ane example is someone who sketchs pictures of women’s shoes in his spare time, drawing these designs for years (for fun) until he was encouraged to pursue his love of shoe design as a new career.

When determining your career change, take stock of your interests and passions and try not to overthink them by weighing every pro and con. Instead, trust your gut.

“People who successfully switch careers,”. “often cite the power of gut instinct.”

And research backs that up. In one study, British and Turkish students were asked to predict the winner of a British soccer match. The Turks, who knew nothing about the teams, were just as accurate in their predictions as the Brits. Why? Because they didn’t overanalyze all the factors —such as injuries, previous scores, and player stats — they just went with their instincts.

Shadowing someone who does what you’d like to do and take notes. Write down your goals and thoughts. Research shows that taking simple actions will help execute your vision.

2. The struggle

This is the toughest stage of any career change and can last an uncomfortably long time.

“It’s when you’re disconnecting yourself from your previous identity, but you haven’t quite figured out the identity where you are going to land,”.

But this struggle is also the most critical phase of your transformation. You’ve made the transition but are not seeing success soon enough—maybe ever.

One way to manage the stress of the struggle phase is to remain nimble.

“People who turn failure into success do it in increments. Instead of throwing up their hands and throwing it out, they actually iterate and iterate and iterate,”. “They tweak, adjust, and fiddle after every flameout.”

3. The stop

The struggle leads you to the third phase of change—the stop.

There is “either something that you may choose, like, “I’m quitting my job.” Or it might be something thrust on you, like, “I got laid off from my job,” or there was an illness or a divorce in my family.”

4. The solution

The final chapter of your career change journey marks the beginning of a whole new chapter in your life.

The solution is when everything leading up to this point—the search, the struggle, the stop— coalesces, and you know what you have to do.

The solution is the answer. If a wannabe writer receives mostly got bad reviews, but hones his craft and hesitant to quit his day job. Then has an “aha moment.”and realises the way then everything becomes possible in time.