Imagining a New Career
Is the idea of a new career enticing?
Are you ready for a new challenge?
Holidays often allow thoughts and wishes to bubble to the surface that we overlook in the bustle of everyday life. Motivations that we have not attended to do not go away, they just sit beneath the surface until we give them a chance to pop up and take us in new directions.
If you want some inspiration for reflecting on what motivates you, here are some posts that explore:
Why understanding what moves you is useful
How skills you’ve gained without realising it can change the course of your career
What Moves You
Reflecting on what moves you can give you insights about what really matters to you and help you shape a more fulfilling career.
What moves us
What moves us is often unseen. A current beneath the surface moving us across water, a radio wave carrying a song we love to our ears, our hidden motivations nudging us along paths in our careers.
Stealth Skilling
Reevaluating your skills to consider what you’re capable of can open up new and exciting possibilities. The following posts cover one of my stories about how skills I’d gained by stealth changed the course of my career.
I had a career change and didn’t know how
In my last post on Stealth Skilling, I discussed how I developed skills while in one job that led to me landing another job in a different sector and discipline. I moved from being a university staff advisor to developing concepts and blueprints for skills discovery platforms.
How I stealth skilled my way to a career change
Have you ever considered that through the jobs you’ve done and the activities you do regularly you’ve probably developed skills you haven’t articulated?
Looking back, looking forward
If you get the chance this holiday season, take some time to reflect and imagine your ideal career.
Looking back
What have you achieved over the course of the past year?
What new skills have you developed?
Looking forward
Where do you want to go next?
How could the skills you’ve developed help you get there?