Your Job Was LOST, Now What?
Your job is being eliminated - WTF do you do? Technologies, industries, and markets all change. If you are in a role that is being diminished due to change what do you do after a job loss? Reinventing yourself and starting over after a job loss is terrifying but here are some tips you can do to handle a job loss.
When Your Dream Job Sucks: It's Not You
Job Skills: Don't Do What You CAN Do, Do What You WANT To Do
Many people who are trying to figure out what they want to do with their careers - want to DO IT NOW! They want to skip really important steps because they want to just figure it out right now. However they have some steps that they need to follow. I believe it every single person should start with some of the BIG “life questions” like “Why do I work?”, “What is Meaningful to me?” you know, “How do I want to be in the world?” You should start here, but there a lot of people that are just not even wanting to do those questions - they want to skip ahead. So, the next thing that they get to is “Okay, I'm going to write out a list of all of the things that I can do.” Then they write out a list of skills that they can do and they start looking at jobs that line up with the skill sets they have. That's actually the wrong way to go about it…
Visualize Work Not Sucking
Career fulfillment is a 100% personal concept. Fulfillment doesn’t mean you need to wake up every day with hearts and rainbows in your eyes about your job, but it does need to mean that you get true satisfaction from it - beyond a paycheck. What is fulfilling for one person could be a nightmare for another so you will need to define what “fulfillment” means - for you.
How to Fight The Fear and Make the Career Change You Need
A Job Loss Sucks, Here's How to Bounce Back Better
How to recover from losing your job. "I lost my job" are some of the most dreaded words in any language. We’ve all been there. The start-up shuttered. You got yourself fired. Or it was just an out and out unexplained termination. Job loss happens. It can send you into a tailspin. But it also means that you have an opportunity to get another job. A better job. A job you really want.
How Does Career Coaching Work?
While we coaches wish there was a magic wand that only shot out sparkly farts of glittery job happiness - there just isn’t - instead there's this thing. Career Coaching. It IS a thing. A thing everyone should take advantage of. Here’s how career coaching works. If you want to be a coach or get career coaching, here are the basics.
You Don't Have to Figure Out Your Career By Yourself
You don't have to figure out your career on your own just because we’re not taught how to manage our careers. We’re taught what and how to get jobs but rarely, if ever, how to manage our careers once we’re in them. So, don’t feel like you’re left on your own. Try one, two, or a few of these tips to help you with your career, and don’t leave your career to chance.
