Switch lanes seamlessly with this guide.
We spend approximately one-third of our earthly lives working, that’s a statistical fact. That is a lot of time spent at the office, working over a computer, or whatever activities your work entails. It is all but inevitable that at some point you might feel tired and restless in your current circumstances and start thinking of heading to pastures new. A change in job or starting up your own business? The choice is yours and the road wide open for opportunity.
Making A Change
Perhaps you’re burned out or experiencing a negative environment at work, perhaps it’s neither of these things, you actually love your job but just can’t see yourself fulfilled or happy in continuing it until retirement. You feel that pull, that compulsion to reset your professional career and tilt towards something you really want to do.
If so, we say go for it! If you’re going to be spending so much of your time working, at least be doing something you enjoy, that you’re good at, that you know you can provide a meaningful contribution to society through. There’s an old saying that goes, “if you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life”… and we totally agree with that sentiment. Don’t live your life making someone else’s dreams come true. If you feel that restlessness in your current career, look at what you can do to change it.
How Can I Switch Careers Seamlessly?
For this article we’ll present 7 ways you can reboot your career and do it seamlessly.
Ready to begin a whole new adventure? Let’s go…
1. Direction
If you’re going to reboot your professional career, then at the very least know where you’re going beforehand. It’s not good enough to be vague and ambiguous about the field in which you wish to transition to, you need to know the final destination and a viable, realistic path to get there.
2. Consultation
Before making any actionable moves to change careers, talk to family, friends, professional and personal acquaintances, explain to them what you’re feeling, what you want to do and why. Listen to what they say, don’t dismiss anything you don’t like out of hand, weigh up all advice given, and make a decision based on logic, reason, and no small amount of actual practicality.
3. Finances
One of the most important factors in any career, indeed in almost every aspect of life is money. You need financial capital to live and purchase essential goods and services. So any decision you make on a potential career reboot should be based from the outset on a sure financial footing. How much do you have, how much do you need, where’s the next paycheck coming from, and do you have enough to live on for the transition period? This is a matter of the highest importance and one which you need to be very certain about before leaving your current job and venturing out into an unknown future.
4. Networking
If you’ve decided to switch lanes in your career, one of the best things you can do is start networking in advance. Let people know you’re wanting a change, where you want to go, and how to contact you. Networking is such an essential part of business and commerce and making as much contact with as many people as you can increases your chances of an opportunity opening up to grasp with both hands.
5. Update Your Resume
If you’ve been working for a while in your current job then you’re going to need to update your resume, portfolio, curriculum vitae or whatever you choose to call it. This is a written timeline of your professional experience, skills attained, and qualifications earned. It is highly advisable that you prepare it before you start reaching out to new avenues in your career reboot as you never know when you might need it at a moment’s notice to strike while the (proverbial) iron is hot.
6. Social Media
The world of social media is a great tool to network on, to reach potential employers and clients without being limited by geographical location. Websites such as Linkedin will bring you to the attention of more companies hiring new staff or people so like minded in wanting to start up a business for themselves, so use it to the fullest. Equally so though, if you have social media accounts such as Facebook or Twitter/X and there is anything even potentially controversial on it then scrub it before you reach out… when hiring new staff, one of the very first things many companies now look at is a potential employee’s social media accounts to see who they’re hiring!
7. Be Patient
If you’ve made the move out of your current job but are finding some headwinds against securing that next opportunity you wanted, don’t get discouraged too soon. Sometimes these things take time and you need to hold your nerve. Many people have experienced difficulties when rebooting their career but they believed in what they were doing and ultimately prevailed because going forward was the only option they considered. You’ve had the courage of your convictions to make that change now hold firmly onto those convictions and see them through to success.
You can do it!
