This is how to address the fear of changing your career!

Here we discussed what makes changing a career so hard. Today, let’s focus on how to address it.

Are you thinking of changing your career/ industry/ function? Are you feeling like there is more to your professional life than just what you are currently doing? Have been asking yourself whether you are realizing your full potential career-wise? Have you been trying to find your professional purpose?

Sounds like you? Then it is time to talk about self-awareness and self-actualization in better detail. 

Oftentimes we do not know what we want. And even if we do, it is enormously hard for us to first accept it and, most importantly, create the change that we desire. 

We seem to confuse things we really want to do and love to do with what society, peers, and family think is the best for us.

The problem is that it is nearly impossible to get that sense of professional fulfillment and success, leveraging our natural strengths and drivers, without ever discovering them. That is why revealing, understanding, and levering your unique personality features is the key to success.

Here are the ways that can help you reach a deeper level of self-awareness:

Reflecting back.

Take some time to reflect on your success and failures, your main personal qualities that helped you or prevented you, explore your true motivators and drivers, things you really love and hate doing, people you naturally feel at ease with, projects you were inspired by and those you felt bored or really struggled with.

Asking opinions.

Ask your loved ones, family, friends, and trusted colleagues about things that make you who you are, qualities that make you unique, about the contribution you make in the common projects. Ask for positive and constructive feedback and try to keep an open mind, listen and reflect.

Undergoing professional personality assessments.

Psychometric assessments are a great tool that can help you reveal tones of useful and applicable information in less than a day.

Profile Assessment is a tool that provides deep insights into your key growth areas as well as blind spots, your values, motivations, and key behavioral patterns. A deep understanding of yourself is the secret to finding the future you are meant to have.

Here at REINVENT, we employ the best-in-class Profile Assessment tools, the industry leader with the biggest validation base in the world, which guarantees the accuracy of the results and interpretation. They boast unprecedented 25 years of research, above 7 million assessments done, 1100 validation studies, and 350 scientific publications. 

Working with a mentor/coach/therapist.

Another way to achieve a deeper level of self-awareness is working with a certified specialist that can help you navigate through your personality and the blindsides of it. 

Coaching in particular, can help you internalize the results of the reflection or using a personality assessment tool and transform them into an actionable plan to achieve your goal and create a way forward (based on actions feasible for you) where you prepare yourself for the outcome, for the roadblocks, how to not get derailed once you come across an obstacle and of course it prepares you for the impact of the success. 

Our REINVENT YOUR Career program provides a self-discovery journey, combining thorough profile assessment and its interpretation with transformational coaching, that helps to redefine the career stories and achieve professional and personal satisfaction. 

We will help you understand your unique strengths, define your personal brand, frame yourself to be more successful, and build actionable next steps so the right opportunities come knocking at your door!

Get in touch and REINVENT YOUR CAREER with us!