As I explain in Career Change Guide, you must first have a good understanding of yourself before you begin changing careers. I take you through all the steps in the book. There’s a lot more detail about how to change careers successfully in the book.
Career Change Guide: What Important to You? What Do You Value?
Without question, the most important thing to know is what is most important to you, what you value. This has multiple dimensions:
- Core values, such as honesty, caring for others, and fidelity. These are the basis of who we are, understanding others, and having good relationships.
- Personal considerations, such as concern about people we love, our spouse, children, siblings, and parents.
- Identity with groups where we are members, such as faith-based ones, community service, work colleagues, and teammates.
- Work environments where we feel most comfortable, such as collaborative or competitive, action oriented or thoughtful/academic.
Understanding your values is both an analytical and emotional/intuitive experience. Having this understanding takes a lot of thoughtful self-analysis and communication with those who one respects the most.
What are you doing to understand yourself on these dimensions?
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