Want a career change? Take stock
2 May 2011
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Your job no longer excites you, you want a change, but what to do? Where to start? How long will it take?
These questions are certainly relevant, but first of all, do a self-assessment that will allow you to know yourself well in order to understand what you really want.
To be clear about your deepest aspirations, you will have to clearly define your profile: who are you? What have you done? What do you like to do? What do you imagine doing? How do you want to work?
For now, you need to focus your investigation on yourself. You're going to review everything you've done throughout your personal and professional journey.
Take stock:
Take a piece of paper. First, note in great detail your tastes, interests, desires…
Do the same with your qualities and strengths. What character traits do you possess, your strengths (organized, tenacious, communicative...). Each time, specify and argue what allows you to think so. All the details are essential.
Analyze your training:
Next, you will list your training, whether school, university or continuing education: level of exit, diplomas, training followed as part of professional or extra-professional activities, nature and origin of choices, if problems encountered, which ones? What you liked or, on the contrary, what you disliked… Don't forget anything.
Detail your professional career:
Third area, your professional activity. Where have you worked? The duration of your different experiences, the positions held, the missions performed, the skills acquired, the resources or aptitudes developed, the centers of interest. Here too, ask yourself what you liked, succeeded at, hated. What aspects have been appreciated or recognized by your colleagues or supervisors?
Your hobbies:
Finally, do the same with your extra-professional experience, that is, the activities carried out for an association, for your pleasure, for your loved ones: type of activity, context, missions, skills and aptitudes developed, motivations, (liked, disliked, appreciated)...
Constraints:
Of course, to define your professional project, you will have to deal with your constraints. Ask yourself what your leeway is in terms of geographical mobility. Similarly, ask yourself about physical, family, financial constraints, for example.
The goal of all this analysis is to be able to delve into yourself to better understand your personality, what you like and especially what you hate, you will thus be able to learn a lot about yourself. This is the best way to start identifying ideas or project leads and the points on which you will be able to rely for the following steps.
Posted on May 2, 2011
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
These questions are certainly relevant, but first of all, do a self-assessment that will allow you to know yourself well in order to understand what you really want.
To be clear about your deepest aspirations, you will have to clearly define your profile: who are you? What have you done? What do you like to do? What do you imagine doing? How do you want to work?
For now, you need to focus your investigation on yourself. You're going to review everything you've done throughout your personal and professional journey.
Take stock:
Take a piece of paper. First, note in great detail your tastes, interests, desires…
Do the same with your qualities and strengths. What character traits do you possess, your strengths (organized, tenacious, communicative...). Each time, specify and argue what allows you to think so. All the details are essential.
Analyze your training:
Next, you will list your training, whether school, university or continuing education: level of exit, diplomas, training followed as part of professional or extra-professional activities, nature and origin of choices, if problems encountered, which ones? What you liked or, on the contrary, what you disliked… Don't forget anything.
Detail your professional career:
Third area, your professional activity. Where have you worked? The duration of your different experiences, the positions held, the missions performed, the skills acquired, the resources or aptitudes developed, the centers of interest. Here too, ask yourself what you liked, succeeded at, hated. What aspects have been appreciated or recognized by your colleagues or supervisors?
Your hobbies:
Finally, do the same with your extra-professional experience, that is, the activities carried out for an association, for your pleasure, for your loved ones: type of activity, context, missions, skills and aptitudes developed, motivations, (liked, disliked, appreciated)...
Constraints:
Of course, to define your professional project, you will have to deal with your constraints. Ask yourself what your leeway is in terms of geographical mobility. Similarly, ask yourself about physical, family, financial constraints, for example.
The goal of all this analysis is to be able to delve into yourself to better understand your personality, what you like and especially what you hate, you will thus be able to learn a lot about yourself. This is the best way to start identifying ideas or project leads and the points on which you will be able to rely for the following steps.
Posted on May 2, 2011
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
