Rethinking Your Career? 

In this video we will briefly review Questions #1 & #2 then deal with Question #3, Are you rethinking about your career completely, and considering a Career Restart. We will look at two KEYS you must deal with to give you a beginning point. The first is exploring your career Whys. The second is exploring your Interests

Question #3 Script: Are You Rethinking Your Career?

Well hello again! Murray Comber with you. Another career chat.

This is the fourth of five videos where we’ve been dealing with some questions.

1. What do you like about your career and would like to keep and develop?
2. What do you not like about your career and would like to offload, get rid of, remove?

Those two questions are about realigning what you’re doing now. How can I make my job better? But what if those questions just don’t work for you? Then it’s not a realignment you’re thinking, it’s a re-evaluation which leads you to the third question.

#3 – Are you rethinking your Career completely? Are you in for a total restart?

Is that part of your thought process?

Let me ask first of all, when it comes to the job you’re working at now the job itself,
‘Is there a future in it? In other words, does it have a future in doing it?
And if it does can you last as long as it?

If you say no, then you have an issue.

Second question is,

What if your career does not have, that job does not have a future, it’s got an ending point, it’s going to become obsolete?

You’ve got the same problem. You still need to look for something different.
• So, what are you going to do next?
• When are you going to make the decision to do it? and here’s the most important question,
• Do you even know where to begin?
Let me give you a couple of things a couple of keys, okay.

The first one we’ve addressed to some degree but I’m going to go deeper into it.

Key #1 – You need to explore your WHYs.

I’m addicted to the whys of you in career satisfaction…
• You need to know why you like what you like
• You need to know why you don’t like what you don’t like. And,
You have to ask why up to 7 times to get rid of the superficial answers and get right to the core.
And once you get to the core that’s when you can really begin exploring your future career.

The second key

Key #2 – is exploring your Interests.

Your interests are your starting point because it is the number one determiner of career satisfaction.
The Problem with interests is that they’re limited to what you’ve been exposed to.
When you started your careers several, whatever number of years ago, you were younger. Less of the world you were exposed to. And the less you’re exposed to, the less interest you are made aware of. But as time progressed that you grew up in you matured and more of life was exposed to, your interests began to say…

• Oh I didn’t notice that one
• I didn’t notice that one
• Oh, this could be interesting,

and you may begin a midlife crisis on career shift. It is totally normal for you to say, Oh I wish I’d have known that younger but take the guts and do it now.

Now let’s wrap this up.

I want you to picture interests as a sphere. And inside that sphere of interests you are going to interject your world of what you like, your energizers and a lot of attention on that. You’re going to also put in there the things that you do not like, your energy drainers, not as much as the energizes, but you need to think about them through.

Once you take the capsule of interests with energizers and energy drainers, the likes and the don’t likes, you have a starting point. You are at the beginning of your right path and following that path could lead you somewhere in your career.

But, you’re probably going to need some help with that and if that’s the case feel free to reach out to me on this social media.

In the next video we’re going to wrap up this series with some encouraging words. It’ll be in a couple of days.

But if you’re seeing this for the first time, or have only seen one or two of the other videos, in the end screen I’m going to show you where you can get right to the beginning of the playlist where you can see all of these short videos to help you through your career issues.

So there’s my chat for you today.

Hope to see you in the next video and,

You have a wonderful day bye for now!

When You Read Career Coaching Success Stories it Usually Points to One of Two Things…

1. The Career Coaching success was in a very narrow field and all that person’s energies were focused on that one area, or
2. During Career Coaching, the person was surrounded by a team of people that made the broader accomplishment possible.

Even so, a person can be at the top of his/her game in one area and a total washout in another. A typical line I often say during a group or individual session is,

“Everybody is absolutely brilliant somewhere…everybody is an absolute idiot somewhere”.

Human nature wants to put our brilliance on display and conceal our our less fortunate side. Coaching can helps us deal with this nagging internal issue. However, any coaching is not for the weak of heart but for the ‘strong’! It takes strength of character to be able to say, “This is where I am not good…my nemesis…my Achilles heal”. But here is the good news. To be able to say it, own it, and do something about it, already means you possess the earmarks of a winner.

Career Coaching has the ability to objectively identify one’s strengths and weaknesses. It doesn’t just emerge from dialogue, but the use of assessments provide concrete feedback. In other words, assessments give the dialogue direction, They aren’t the magic pill that informs you exactly what you should be doing in your World of Work.  This dialogue based approach is usually very revealing, creating those ‘Ah Ha’ moments. At that moment, more often than not, you are able to validate what you both intuitively and experientially already know. It’s and awesome feeling to get the weight of ‘not knowing’ off your shoulders.

Lets Address a Few Dichotomies to Illustrate the Point.

• Do you thrive on impulse and spontaneity? Chances are your administrative skills aren’t strong.
• Is logic your forté? Perhaps you have been told you are not all that compassionate.
• Are you brilliant with details and micro-management? Then someone may have accused you of not seeing the ‘big picture’.
• Is your best work accomplished when you are alone, without distractions? Then you probably don’t thrive on the energy of a brainstorming session.
• Has the the inner world of impressions and hunches been a guiding force within you? Then those you work with may demand documented proof before you take action.

Even though the above may illustrate your personal strengths and weaknesses, reality is that both sides are strengths…yours and someone else’s.  Which ones yours are can be identified in career coaching sessions, then you can be trained in specific strategies to…

• Focus on and develop these personal abilities
• Understand the opposite side, and
• Manage relationships with those that differ from you.

So…why don’t you take the plunge. Have confidence to show your inner strength of character. Find a career coach and let your path to success begin today!

I’d love to hear from you. Leave your comments below.

Or perhaps you are ready for one of these 2 programs…

Quick Start – A Starting Point for Career Coaching

Career Management System – A Complete Program to Manage Your Career