Tips for career transition

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Tips for career transition

Manu Srikumar



Have your current job become less satisfying or did you just realize that you hated going to work? Time for a transition

Here are some tips to make the change easy

1. Be Flexible - Ensure that you are willing to move. Expanding your opportunity requires you to expand your geography.

2. Speak your passion - Potential employers would love to see a passionate candidate. Find what gets you out of bed everyday, what gives you a sense of accomplishment. They would like to know how your passion to do things can actually relate to the business goals of the employer. Career Chnage requires a lot of self introspection and its a passion to do things that should drive this

3. Your edge - What are the selling points that will make you stand out from other potential hires? Obivously, you will not have your experience to speak about as you are going to be moving in to something new. But certainly, you will have your interpersonal skills, your leadership and communication ability, your demonstrated ability of connecting to people, your ability to perform to talk about. Would be worthy to identify what skills you possess to perform on the new job. Make this the selling point.

4. Hone your skills - You will have to hone your interview skills, redo your resume & intensively network.

5. Solid Methodology - You will need the right approach and plan your job search in a thoughtful and effective manner and be ready to take a call or visit an employer for an interview.

Before doing all this, you should have done a basic research on potential career options. To note that the career change process is not that easy, its complicated. Its important that you don't rush into things. First you broaden the horizon to understand all the possibilities and then narrow it down to two or three potential careers that interest you.

Source: http://www.careerbuilder.co.in/Article/CB-44-Job-Search-Tips-for-career-transition/