Have you been wrestling with the idea of changing careers, but aren’t sure what you’d like to do?  Maybe you have some ideas or maybe you don’t. This month consider taking some steps to learn more about different fields.

If you’re not sure about what you’d like your next career to look like, here are a few things you can try this week:

1. Look through the Employment section of your newspaper.  What jobs sound
   interesting?  Why?
2. Surf the internet.  Look at job postings on Craigslist.org,
   Monster.com, or even ‘Google’ a few words that you think you might like the job to include.  For example try ‘outdoors’, ‘outside’, ‘fun’ and see what comes up.
3. Go to a bookstore.  What sections are you drawn too?  If it’s Hobbies –
   which hobbies in particular?  If it’s Biographies, what jobs did those people hold?  What is it about these, perhaps their character, which attracts you to them?
4. Check out a magazine rack.  To which magazines are you drawn?  What do
   the magazines have in common?  What job possibilities do they spark?
   Perhaps writing, business savvy, creativity, or compassion for the environment.
5. Ask your family, friends and perhaps former colleagues to put on their
   ‘creative hat’ and brainstorm on what job(s) they think you’d be good at, and why.  The more diverse their background, the better!

As you do this exercise, bring a notebook with you to jot down the answers to these questions as well as any other ideas/insights that reveal themselves.

Have fun and enjoy the process!

To your success,
Gwyneth Anne

This entry was posted by Gwyneth Anne Freedman on August 6th, 2007 under Career with keywords .

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