Hey Ambitious Professionals, it's Linda Raynier of LindaRaynier.com career
strategist and intuitive purpose coach. I help driven professionals like you to
enhance your personal brand, so that you can pursue a career you'll truly enjoy.
So in today's video, I really want to talk about a topic that has been asked
quite a bit in my mastermind group. By the way if you haven't joined it yet, you
definitely want to join the Ambitious Professionals Mastermind Facebook Group.
It's a free group, where over 1,500 professionals have joined from all
around the world and are currently supporting each other, helping each other
out as they pursue careers they truly enjoy so you definitely want to join the
group. But back to what I was saying the one question that's been asked pretty
often in that group is "What's the best way to switch careers when you've worked
in one particular industry or field for several years?" The biggest barrier that I
think many professionals feel and this is something that you may feel as well,
is that because you don't have the exact same job experience for a position that
you want to get into, that all of a sudden it's impossible for you to take
on that job that you feel stuck, and you really don't know what to do to get you
into that new position. Well I have FOUR key tips that I think will really help
you to reframe your mind, so that you can start to really get yourself in the
direction of making that career change that you really want. Tip number one is
to leverage what you have to change your environment. If you're working in a
certain type of workplace setting or environment that is not at all aligned
with the type of environment that you would love to get into, then the first
thing is to change your environment. So for example, let's say that you are a
researcher or a scientist that currently works in a lab and you've realized after
a year or so or more of working there, that it really isn't the type of job
that is aligned with who you really are it's not aligned with your natural
inherent talents, and you start to have these visions of
yourself working in a corporate environment; working maybe in an office
wearing a suit to work or wearing heels to work, depending on what you like and
you see yourself maybe doing something more exciting as opposed to doing
research in a lab; maybe that's to do marketing or branding. So before you ask
yourself "How do I get myself a marketing job", reel yourself in a little bit and
actually ask yourself "How do I get myself out of this lab?" Start to think of
"How can I get myself into the right working environment first". So in this
case, you can go work for a pharmaceutical company or you can go
work at a medical based type of company because they will probably value your
experience and skills and knowledge that you currently have, and they will have
opportunities available to you that you could start to maneuver your way into, so
that at least to start you're in the right environment; you're putting
yourself in the right setting so that eventually hopefully you can pursue that
career of getting into marketing. Tip number two plays off of tip number one
and that is, "If the ideal role you want isn't possible for you right now, find
and in between". This is something that so many professionals don't realize they
need to be doing. They want to make that instant leap. "I'm a lab scientist and I
want to be a marketing brand manager how do I make that instant leap in one day
in one step or less?" It's just simply not possible. Nothing in your life happens
instantly and especially in your career. You have to be willing to take
calculated guided steps if you really want to find and pursue a career that is
truly meaningful for you. And I know it's cliche to say this but it truly is about
the journey not the destination. So what you really want to do is actually
envision your destination, which is, let's say you're that lab scientist you want
to be a marketing brand manager. So you see that. You know where the destination
is and you see where you are currently. So kind of look at it
as a high-level map. Zoom into the map and start to identify what are the roads
or the detours that I need to take in order to get myself to that final
destination. And what I mean by that is: What are the intermediate positions that
you would probably have to do in between, before you can get yourself to that
marketing position? It's all about getting yourself one step closer each
and every time to the ultimate goal that you want to take on; that ultimate
position that you want to have. So if we go back to the lab scientist and
marketing brand manager example, what are some positions that would be outside of
the lab but would get me a little bit closer to the marketing job that I want
to take on? Examples could be maybe getting into pharmaceutical sales or
getting into an Operations role that is still more of a corporate position as
opposed to a lab type of position. Now I know what you're thinking, you're
probably gonna say "Oh but no I don't want to do any of those jobs, I just want
to do marketing, I just want to do that one ultimate thing" Unfortunately that's
not how it works. Just because you want it doesn't mean that you can be handed
that job right away. You have to earn it, you have to be able to develop the skill
sets and the experiences that are going to more closely relate to that position,
that ultimate position that you want to get into, before you can actually jump
into and dive into that position. Unless you're in a position that is already
pretty closely relevant to the position that you want to get into, if it is
completely drastically different then, you have to leverage everything you have
to get yourself into the next best position that's still on that path of
getting you to where you want to go. Essentially, you just have to ask
yourself "What is the right next step for me? What is the right next position that
I know is going to get me closer to my ultimate goal?" And truth be told, you have
to have that willingness to take that route and go about it that way.
Otherwise you're gonna be sitting around, waiting and hoping that your dream job
is gonna show up one day that somebody's gonna give you a chance,
and unfortunately that's just not how it's gonna happen. Now tip number three
is to match your resume to the positions that you want to apply for. Here's an
analogy that I kind of came up
with and I want to share it with
you guys. So let's just say you're selling your house and you know that
your house is going to be really attractive for people with young
families, couples with young families or people that are just about to start
their families, maybe married couples that want to get into the neighborhood
and they want to buy this home and start their family. If you know that that's the
likely buyer that's going to come out of this whole process of selling your house,
then you obviously want to attract that buyer as much as possible to the home.
For example, your real estate agent may suggest a few things that you can do and
that would be perhaps, keep the baby furniture the baby rooms furniture up in
the room so that any potential buyers may see the nursery and then they can
envision the nursery for themselves one day. Or perhaps keep up pictures of
family; baby pictures and family photos on the walls. Keep things feeling and
looking like it would be a perfect home for a starter family. After doing all of
that, implementing all these little ways of inserting these ideas into these
potential buyers minds that this is a perfect home for someone who wants to
start a family, who do you think is going to end up being the likely buyer of the
home? Just a wild guess, it's probably gonna be a young family, somebody that
would find that this happens to be the perfect fit for them for their next step
in their lives. What I want you to understand is that your resume is
essentially like this home. Your resume has to be catered and framed for the
right person to read it. You have to be able to leverage the experience that you
already have, you want to cater it to an employer that would be interested in
hiring someone with your background but also can see how you would fit into that
next position, as a pharmaceutical sales rep let's just say; any
position really. Anytime that you're applying to a new role, you want to make
sure that you cater yourself and you speak to the audience who is going to be
reading that resume. You can't be giving in the same resume across the board and
explaining all the things that you've done in that role if they're not even
relevant to the position that you want to get into. I've actually developed a
whole slew of strategies and formulas on exactly how to do this step by step. It's
all in my course, "Top-Notch Resume" which is my step by step system on how to
create a resume from start to finish that stands out, and actually gets you
the job. You can click on the link below underneath where you can get a sample of
some of my resumes as well as notifications on when the next
enrolment happens for the Top-Notch Resume course. And lastly tip number four,
is to envision yourself in the job that you'd love to do and believe that it
will happen. Some of you may think this is woo woo but I don't think so. I highly
believe in the idea of visualizing your future in order to achieve what you want.
When you can visualize where you're going, what it's going to look like, then
it gives you clarity and it gives you direction. You have a sense of purpose
behind your actions and it motivates you to get up every day and to execute and
do what you need to do to get where it is that you want to go. So the more you
can visualize and feel and believe that it's there for you, that it is possible
for you, the more likely that it's going to happen.
Of course visualizing a loan without taking the right action steps and
without finding the right ways to approach your career is useless. So use
the resources that you have. Learn what you can through this journey, be flexible,
be willing to make decisions that may not necessarily appear at the
beginning to directly get you to where you want to go. But as long as it's
getting you closer to where it is that you want to go, that's all that matters
just think about that first next step in front of you. At the end of the day it's
all about you having the willingness to do everything in your power to go after
the career that is going to be truly meaningful and
fulfilling for you. So there you have it, my FOUR tips on how to successfully
change careers. If you're someone who's wanting to switch careers and
you're not really sure how to go about doing it especially when it comes to
writing your resume and making sure that it matches to the career that you want
to get into, then I highly recommend taking my Top-Notch Resume course. It is
my step by step system on exactly how to create a standout resume that actually
gets you the job. This is the approach that I've taught only to my private
clients and I can tell you I've had multiple success stories of my clients
who previously were not even getting interviews and then after using this
approach and applying it to their resume and sending out that particular resume,
they were not only getting more interviews but they got job offers out
of them as well. So this is something that I highly recommend you take what
you can do is head on over to LindaRaynier.com/samples and from there
you'll get a free copy of my resume samples as well as, you'll be notified on
when the next round of enrolment will open up for Top-Notch Resume. Also if you
haven't already, join the Ambitious Professionals Mastermind Facebook Group
where over 1,500 other professionals worldwide have gathered together to
support each other and be positive and helpful to each other as they all pursue
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