LIFE’S CROSSROADS
ARE YOU PREPARED FOR WHAT LIES AHEAD?
Changing jobs, launching a new career and striking a better balance between your professional and personal lives are among the times when you may feel most uncertain and overwhelmed. These are times when professional guidance can be an invaluable source of relief and clarity, particularly when facing the following dilemmas:
- When is it best to change my job or career?
- How can I begin each day with a sense of purpose and optimism?
- Can I feel fulfilled in my current position while pursuing new opportunities?
- What are my options if additional education and training are needed for my next opportunity?
- How do I choose among different career and employment possibilities?
- Is there a long-term career approach I can follow, especially since I will be working for many years in a marketplace that continues to evolve?
- How do I develop career resilience during a time when most jobs are essentially temporary?
CAREER COUNSELING BENEFITS
- Reenergized engagement in your work
- Career know-how that can benefit you throughout your work life
- Robust career-evaluation system
- Renewed purpose and satisfaction with your professional life
- Greater self-confidence and empowerment
- Closer alignment of your material goals with your personal motivators
- Improved professional and personal relationships
- Job progress and advancement that naturally follow from a meaningful career
- New definition of career progress that reflects the workplace’s new realities
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EXPERT GUIDANCE
I will join you in discovery along a path toward possibilities that reflect your goals, skills, needs and interests.
You will have a renewed purpose and contentment that may have once seemed out of reach.
SELECT SERVICES
- Determine the sources of your professional discontent, and identify the changes needed to address them.
- Define your brand for social-media pages, resume, letters and other self-marketing materials.
- Create your personal mission statement to guide you through the career decision-making, interview and position-evaluation stages.
- Develop a “try-it-on” plan that includes reality-testing activities – classes, publications and other career resources, professional associations, informational meetings, and volunteer activities.
- Identify and manage barriers, both internal (e.g., anxiety, lack of confidence, perfectionism and self-doubt) and external (e.g., workplace biases, education and training costs, and perception of being overqualified), that can undermine change and progress.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS…AND ANSWERS
If you lack the time or resources needed to expand your capabilities or obtain new credentials, we can explore modified career paths that can still meet your needs. For some pursuits, you may find you can gain needed knowledge through periodicals and other publications, online resources, and professional associations, and without attending costly classes. However, the reality is that retraining and ongoing education is now, and will continue to be, a requirement for employment, so it is critical to thoroughly explore attainable professional-development pathways.
There is no perfect job, regardless of your professional level or industry. Every job has both its pros and cons. The crucial step is to weigh both, and identify the pros that are essential for you. Ultimately, we arrive at a solution that balances the must-have pros with the acceptable cons.
Yes! We are all unique as employees and individuals, and the degree to which we flourish in the workplace and in our lives depends on how well our work meets our intrinsic and extrinsic needs. The time and effort you invest in making personalized decisions and creating meaningful goals are far outweighed by the rewards that will serve you throughout your career.
Biases are real, though thankfully not all employers hold problematic views, and there are ways to respond to situations that may arise. For example, when it may appear that an interviewer has a preconceived notion about you, zero in on and address his/her concern. One example may be that you lack the stamina needed for the job due to age. This misconception can be transformed into an opportunity, and alleviate the interviewer’s concern, by citing a recent project where you worked long hours over an extended period to deliver final product on tight schedule.
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