Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Transferring Your Skills to a New Career

Transferring Your Skills to a New Career So you are looking for a new careerheres what you need to know about transferring your skills. Are you burned out? Frustrated with your current job? Have you been laid off? Whatever your reason for making a transition, know this. You will need to reposition your background to align with your future goals. Almost any job or career you are interested in requires a different set of skills than those you currently use (or at least may be called something different). Thats why every job search (career change or staying within the same occupation) requires you to align your background with what the job requires. This often takes more work than just updating your resume. The first question you need to ask and answer is this. What is it you really want to do? Thats not an easy question to answer. You have done many things and can do a lot of things. But, thats not what I am asking. What is it you REALLY WANT to do? Analysis Paralysis Analysis paralysis is a huge problem for job seekers- especially those who have decided they want to try something new or different. Its really hard to tell from looking at job postings what a job really entails. Plus, there are so many choices, so where do you start? Step One It all starts with knowing yourself. Before you can transition, you have to know which skills you want to transfer. So ask yourself: What is it you love doing! And equally important is identifying what is it you no longer like doing? Ive written about career decision making before. It seems I should be writing about it more as it is a major concern for a lot of job seekers.   Here is a listing of links: Transfer Your Skills Changing Jobs, Changing Careers, Changing Industries You Want A Change, But You Dont Know What to Do Step Two What can you do with the skills you have? What career options are there that match? Transferring skills has never been easy. But theres a new tool to help you identify careers likely to align with your skills or past job. The DOL released   mySkills myFuture. This is how they describe it: Your future is wide open. Explore new career options based on the skills you’ve used in a past job. It is extremely simple to use.   You type in your last job title and click enter. It will produce results listing Best Match job titles requiring the use of similar skills.   It has a link to posted   job opportunities which you can customize by zip code, typical wage, and typical training. This is a hugely popular topic for career professionals to write about.   Here is another article you may find helpful: Charting a New Career Course from Job-Hunt.org

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