Deciding to change careers at any stage in your work life can daunting. Recognising that you are ready for a new start is the first step towards what can be an enlightening and exciting journey. Here we have pulled together some top tips to help you explore your options and see a future beyond your current role.
So if you have explored some of these routes you should have met a number of people who’s careers really resonate with you, or at least have discovered a few that are absolutely not for you and that’s fine. Before you even start to engage with recruitment consultants, search job boards or even apply for jobs its important to have a rough idea of where you want to be – if you are not convinced this is a good option, your recruiter or interviewer certainly won’t.
- Find yourself a great career coach
- Expand your network and meet with different types of people
- Don’t over complicate things, look at what you are great at and how would these skills transfer into a career out of your current sector
- Think about enrolling in part-time courses to get insight into different professions
- Look to your social network, can anyone offer you a day in their work-world?
- Get on Linkedin, focus on connecting with people who have made similar moves, ask to take them for a coffee and find out about their journey – people will say yes to this, they have been there remember.
- Organisations like Escape the City have some really exciting programmes that can offer real insight
