Get to know the stages of career transitions

Get to know the stages of career transitions - Want a changes or career change is a natural thing. Especially after you reach saturation in the professional field, you usually want to start a new careers that am completely different from before. A new careers that have long been your dream. What are the stages in making a career transition? The following is presented in a concise and concise manner.

Stage 1. Recognize stimuli to change.

This is an important stage in the career transitions processes. The career transition process is basically a combination of the process of change, growth, and becoming a new self. The process of career transition is an important process in one's life. There are many psychological factors interwoven in it. Therefore, one must truly recognize themselves and stimulate them before deciding to change careers.
Most people whom makes career transitions was in the middle of their life journey. This is because the accumulation of various life experiences, an increasingly mature ages, higher abilities or skills or certain conditions make a person wants to change or want to realize the ideals that were once deeply buried. Therefore, it is important to truly understand what stimuli someone wants to change a career. It's important to see the strong emotions that is dominant when someone wants to change or change career. At this stage, it takes the role of others who are able to raise awareness, see the situation from a clearer perspective, examine the existing context, understand the emotions involved, and others. The more mature and mature or the more expert the person speaks, the smoother this phase. In this processing approach such as reframing, metaphor, change curve, etc. It will be an effective tool for understanding how far someone wants to change careers.

Stage 2. Consider Options and Select!

If the first stage is 100% sure to change careers, then the next step is to consider the option available and decide which ones to pursue. This stage is necessary considering there are times when other options can be chosen, but not considered. This stage is also important to "challenge" assumptions, create visions, identify talents, competencies, and expertise possessed. Including setting goals and making plans ahead. Approaches and tools that can is used, for example; identifying values, using psychometric tests to identify and create personality profiles, interests, aspirations, etc.; including this stage you are invited to think at a realistic level.

Stage 3. Preparation and Search!

If you have chosen an option, a plan must be made about how that option can be realized. This is the preparation stage and looking for the desired job. When looking for new jobs, this stage includes preparing a cover letters, CV, interview preparation, networking, personal branding, and 'pitching'. The better this stages is prepared, the search process will be more effective and efficient. Sometimes a person decides not to look for a new job, but builds his own business, then the process at this stage is certainly different. In this case, building a business is certainly more complexer than just looking for worked. Finding customers (marketing / sales), formulating products / services sold, seeing business competition, and other non-technical factors are some of which must be considered in building their own business. Hard work and extra effort need to be done at this stage. Sometimes there is frustration, lack of confidence, limited trust, etc. These things needed to be addressed immediately by focusing on positive things and accepting all the challenges that must be faced.

Stage 4. Get a job / run a new business

This is the stage of adaptation, testing and accepting decisions that has been taken. This period is marked by the existence of interview calls or job offers or when the chosen business has materialized to become real. An optimistic and happy feeling will emerge, as well as worry about being able to live it. At this stage it is important to make a realistic work plans whiles also imagines positive things from all the efforts that has been undertaken so far. Worry and uncertainty will usually emerge, not to mention the effects of experiences that might have a major effect on your success in this stage. Therefore, it is important that you stay focused on what has been decided and go backed to step 1, when you understand what you want.

 Stage 5. Towards a new role / life (The first months of transition)

This is the first 100 days of your new role / life. Finally, you can realize what you wanted to achieve. The times when everything started again. Become a new cycle that will repeat in your life goes forwards. The period where the old reality might repeat or a truly new times and full of optimism. New relationships will be built, new skills will be developed, and also different working styles may is part of your lifestyle, which in turn becomes your new identity. Of course this stage also requires hard work, and the willingness to build other competencies am needed. The right perspective and mindset becomes an integral part so that a successful future can be achieved.