Perhaps you have a nagging feeling that you are just drifting in your career. Or feel deep down that job satisfaction isn’t there. Perhaps you’ve reached a glass ceiling? Maybe you are questioning how you can use your skills to make a positive social impact.
Our advice is to be patient and use your experience to break down and research your options in this way:
- First, create a list of things that you do and don’t like about your current job. List external factors: the job and the situation as it is. And then list the internal ones: the tasks you don’t like or think you are not good at.
- Now create a second list of things, external and internal, you enjoy and feel satisfaction about.
- You should also create a list of your talents. It can be good to ask your friends and people who know you well, what they think you are good at.
- What else is important to you? Would you reject a job for certain reasons?
Look carefully at skills which you have that could fit a different role – such as project management or the ability to work in a team. These are excellent transferrable skills.
Use these lists to match yourself up to a job that appeals to you. Could this be a green job?
To look into it further, use your network, use LinkedIn, and ask the advice of people who do the job already.
A good recruiter will spend time with you, get to know you find out what drives you and help you work out which role is right for you.
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