Discover why this is the best time to Re-evaluate your career
Life sets a rhythm and a pattern. This is often referred to as stasis. As the world continues to evolve, you may feel that your life is adapting to it, or that your career is never changing, growing, or moving forward. The day goes by and nothing changes. Concentrate on moving your thoughts forward into the future and perhaps how you will create better traction to acquire your own knowledge, skills, and talents. Perhaps you feel under-appreciated, you have been overlooked for the position, and/or you believe you are being paid less for your role. Whatever the case may be, your daily routine may be swallowed up in timely thinking about achieving a better future.
Then when a significant life event like a global crisis occurs it creates an opportunity to re-evaluate the thoughts and plans you had for your career. You have the choice when it happens, you can use it as a time to reflect and redirect your focus, or you can summon fear and become paralyzed by ineffectiveness. If this seems self-evident, take this time to rethink your career plan to prioritize your goals. While this may seem like an inappropriate approach to adoption when you are waiting for a solution to a situation that goes out of control, being productive actually helps calm your mind and keep you in a logical frame-reference.
While you are in the process of evaluating your career and developing new plans to revive it, you may be better able to control your sensitive responses to the events you hear and read about. This is due to the change in how your mind is processing information through working memory or re-taking cognitive control of the information flood. You can start this kind of process by applying the guided career overview plan and asking yourself multiple self-analysis questions.
- Guide career overview
You first start an overhaul process by clearing the mental disorder in your mind. There will be information and misinformation that you are gathering about current events, which creates doubts, fears, and possibly discomfort over time about your future. Start by evaluating the needs of yourself and those who depend on you or are with you. Then search for valid sources of information, not second-hand information sources. Go directly to the sources that will provide you with information, data and statistics. This is the only way you can be specific about a plan and stop the flow of conjecture from entering your mind. As you use this mental process you will also be engaged in the use of reasoning and critical analysis skills.
Once you have mentally prepared yourself for the basic needs, and you have employed your rational thinking skills, you can now start using those same reasoning skills for a review of your career plan. At this point, perhaps the whole aspect of your career has changed, the priorities have shifted and the way you work has changed. You can either work as a remote worker from home, or you can find yourself without work right now. Whatever the case may be and as difficult as it may seem to you, this is when managing the guide’s career overview. Now more than ever, you are looking at your career from a completely different perspective.
To get started, your career goals are itemized. If you do not have clearly defined goals, make a list for your future in increments of two years. This is a different approach than you read in many self-help articles and I have used it as a career coach to help improve the success rate of achieving each milestone. When goals are set too far, goals seem too long and can be easily forgotten. . Brief goals serve as checkpoints to keep in mind and can turn into inspirational signposts of celebration as each task is completed. If you already have career goals, you can redevelop the ones you described in a two-year process.
As you think about career goals, you probably don't know exactly where you are going or what direction you want to take in your career. This is when the concept of visualization can be helpful, as a tool for career development. Imagine yourself two years from now, the current crisis has been resolved and describe what you see, feel, and think for your job or profession. Consider what you want to be or what you want to be, now you have a new perspective on life. If you are satisfied with your career and want to spend more time with the people you care for now, perhaps your next goal will be seeing yourself in a stable position, becoming an expert in this role.
- Self-analysis questions
Now that you have begun the process of evaluating your career, you can ask additional targeted questions to continue the process of self-analysis, from the point of view of what your future might look like in the coming years. I have applied the following forms in various forms as a career development instructor and they will probably help you too.
- Targeted Question # 1: Am I inspired by established career goals?
What you want to develop is a specific, not a generic career goal. An example of the generic goal is: I am going to be recognized for my hard work in two years. In contrast, the most effective checkpoints every two years are the ones that motivate you to grow and progress, depending on what your priorities for your life and career depend on. For example, if you want to be steadfast and stable, imagine yourself being an expert at this time and point. If you want to proceed, name a specific location that you are interested in following. For example, if you want to move to a management position, set it as the marker for your first checkpoint.
- Targeted Question # 2: Will there be anything left behind to reach this career goal?
Once you've set up inspirational checkpoints even after a two-year deadline, you'll be able to determine if you have anything you need to prepare. For example, do you need any training or continuing education? Do you need to acquire new knowledge and/or acquire new skills in order to progress? You may need to think ahead and conduct research to prepare your self-development plan. After running the research, you can then further refine the steps you take to map the coming months and work towards a new result.
- Targeted Question # 3: Am I engaged in any kind of negative self-talk?
You may or may not be aware of the ideas about yourself and this is something I suggest you start to be more aware of and pay attention to. This self-talk can be helpful and help you feel good about your life and your decisions, or you can get stuck in a pattern of negative self-talk that undermines your best intentions and efforts. Some of the hard lessons others have learned as career coaches are self-empathy, or being able to forgive oneself for past events and felt mistakes. If you can support yourself, even if you find yourself in the worst situation, you will see that recovery will happen very soon.
- Targeted Question # 4: Do I believe I can reach and finish my first established career goal?
This question is directly related to the previous question about self-talk and it is related to your confidence. If you plan a career for yourself, can you really tell that you have achieved it? Do you believe that you have the potential to accomplish what you set out to do? These may seem like obvious questions, and yet, if you can't reconcile your beliefs with your career plan, you will never achieve the goals you set. A belief begins with a feeling of optimism rather than despair. If you have developed a plan for the future, your faith may change somewhat in your future. If you made this plan for any other reason, it will not happen. When making this decision: I believe in myself and I believe I can achieve these goals.
- Targeted Question # 5: What am I able to accomplish?
You should start by evaluating your strengths to strengthen your beliefs and make them meaningful instead of empty statements. Your strengths are the foundation that builds your ability to create, learn, grow, and adapt to change. You can also use these powers for development. When looking to the future and evaluating what you need to be prepared for, don’t feel short of yourself or weak. These are opportunities for professional development. You don't have to be afraid to identify areas that need improvement, just be aware and be prepared to adapt and you have both the ability and the potential to learn. This new sense of self-awareness will eventually make you stronger as you look to the future with confidence.
- Is it time for a new career path?
Conducting career analysis can be an eye-opening experience, especially if you have new insights into yourself due to the world and working conditions. Once the above process is over, you will be able to know for sure where your career path is headed, assuming that the career situation will return to normal soon. You can feel a sense of renewal about the kind of work you are doing and want to be in the same job and with the same employer. However, the analysis may cause you to consider a different perspective. Perhaps your priorities have changed, or have been re-emphasized, and now you feel strongly about finding a new career path. Analysis has now helped you move in the right direction and create a plan to start the journey to another destination. Which of these situations does not suit you, you should be better in charge of your career and be ready to take action, once the business world is active again.
- The value of productive thinking
The economic health of the nation is worrying, and it is unknown when businesses will return to normalcy. Yet it should not deter you from making career plans and preparing for the future. If history is any indicator of how humanity and the economy are managed in times of global crisis, it will eventually be a period of recovery. This may not happen quickly and in many businesses, there may be a significant return for the growth period. However, you can still keep your mind sharp and focus on your own self-development, which will allow you to solve both crises and recovery better. When you work with your own developmental plans you engage the logical side of your mind and it controls the emotional responses. The more you think in a productive way, the better you will be able to take care of yourself and others. Perhaps logical thinking will help you to keep track of yourself and the business you are working for, while you wait for the crisis to subside.
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