Name: How to Change Careers - 4 Tips to a Successful Career Change
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T04:07:15.000Z
Duration: 13 min 4 s
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Hey Ambitious Professionals, it's Linda Raynier of LindaRaynier.com career

strategist and intuitive purpose coach. I help driven professionals like you to

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enhance your personal brand, so that you can pursue a career you'll truly enjoy.

So in today's video, I really want to talk about a topic that has been asked

quite a bit in my mastermind group. By the way if you haven't joined it yet, you

definitely want to join the Ambitious Professionals Mastermind Facebook Group.

It's a free group, where over 1,500 professionals have joined from all

around the world and are currently supporting each other, helping each other

out as they pursue careers they truly enjoy so you definitely want to join the

group. But back to what I was saying the one question that's been asked pretty

often in that group is "What's the best way to switch careers when you've worked

in one particular industry or field for several years?" The biggest barrier that I

think many professionals feel and this is something that you may feel as well,

is that because you don't have the exact same job experience for a position that

you want to get into, that all of a sudden it's impossible for you to take

on that job that you feel stuck, and you really don't know what to do to get you

into that new position. Well I have FOUR key tips that I think will really help

you to reframe your mind, so that you can start to really get yourself in the

direction of making that career change that you really want. Tip number one is

to leverage what you have to change your environment. If you're working in a

certain type of workplace setting or environment that is not at all aligned

with the type of environment that you would love to get into, then the first

thing is to change your environment. So for example, let's say that you are a

researcher or a scientist that currently works in a lab and you've realized after

a year or so or more of working there, that it really isn't the type of job

that is aligned with who you really are it's not aligned with your natural

inherent talents, and you start to have these visions of

yourself working in a corporate environment; working maybe in an office

wearing a suit to work or wearing heels to work, depending on what you like and

you see yourself maybe doing something more exciting as opposed to doing

research in a lab; maybe that's to do marketing or branding. So before you ask

yourself "How do I get myself a marketing job", reel yourself in a little bit and

actually ask yourself "How do I get myself out of this lab?" Start to think of

"How can I get myself into the right working environment first". So in this

case, you can go work for a pharmaceutical company or you can go

work at a medical based type of company because they will probably value your

experience and skills and knowledge that you currently have, and they will have

opportunities available to you that you could start to maneuver your way into, so

that at least to start you're in the right environment; you're putting

yourself in the right setting so that eventually hopefully you can pursue that

career of getting into marketing. Tip number two plays off of tip number one

and that is, "If the ideal role you want isn't possible for you right now, find

and in between". This is something that so many professionals don't realize they

need to be doing. They want to make that instant leap. "I'm a lab scientist and I

want to be a marketing brand manager how do I make that instant leap in one day

in one step or less?" It's just simply not possible. Nothing in your life happens

instantly and especially in your career. You have to be willing to take

calculated guided steps if you really want to find and pursue a career that is

truly meaningful for you. And I know it's cliche to say this but it truly is about

the journey not the destination. So what you really want to do is actually

envision your destination, which is, let's say you're that lab scientist you want

to be a marketing brand manager. So you see that. You know where the destination

is and you see where you are currently. So kind of look at it

as a high-level map. Zoom into the map and start to identify what are the roads

or the detours that I need to take in order to get myself to that final

destination. And what I mean by that is: What are the intermediate positions that

you would probably have to do in between, before you can get yourself to that

marketing position? It's all about getting yourself one step closer each

and every time to the ultimate goal that you want to take on; that ultimate

position that you want to have. So if we go back to the lab scientist and

marketing brand manager example, what are some positions that would be outside of

the lab but would get me a little bit closer to the marketing job that I want

to take on? Examples could be maybe getting into pharmaceutical sales or

getting into an Operations role that is still more of a corporate position as

opposed to a lab type of position. Now I know what you're thinking, you're

probably gonna say "Oh but no I don't want to do any of those jobs, I just want

to do marketing, I just want to do that one ultimate thing" Unfortunately that's

not how it works. Just because you want it doesn't mean that you can be handed

that job right away. You have to earn it, you have to be able to develop the skill

sets and the experiences that are going to more closely relate to that position,

that ultimate position that you want to get into, before you can actually jump

into and dive into that position. Unless you're in a position that is already

pretty closely relevant to the position that you want to get into, if it is

completely drastically different then, you have to leverage everything you have

to get yourself into the next best position that's still on that path of

getting you to where you want to go. Essentially, you just have to ask

yourself "What is the right next step for me? What is the right next position that

I know is going to get me closer to my ultimate goal?" And truth be told, you have

to have that willingness to take that route and go about it that way.

Otherwise you're gonna be sitting around, waiting and hoping that your dream job

is gonna show up one day that somebody's gonna give you a chance,

and unfortunately that's just not how it's gonna happen. Now tip number three

is to match your resume to the positions that you want to apply for. Here's an

you guys. So let's just say you're selling your house and you know that

your house is going to be really attractive for people with young

families, couples with young families or people that are just about to start

their families, maybe married couples that want to get into the neighborhood

and they want to buy this home and start their family. If you know that that's the

likely buyer that's going to come out of this whole process of selling your house,

then you obviously want to attract that buyer as much as possible to the home.

For example, your real estate agent may suggest a few things that you can do and

that would be perhaps, keep the baby furniture the baby rooms furniture up in

the room so that any potential buyers may see the nursery and then they can

envision the nursery for themselves one day. Or perhaps keep up pictures of

family; baby pictures and family photos on the walls. Keep things feeling and

looking like it would be a perfect home for a starter family. After doing all of

that, implementing all these little ways of inserting these ideas into these

potential buyers minds that this is a perfect home for someone who wants to

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