Your Career – Managing the Change

How can Aged2Excel help in managing career change?

Aged2Excel can help in a number significant ways:

1. By offering our professional insight as to why people fear change, especially job changes and how to refocus negative self belief, into positive self belief.
2. By aiding you in your job search and selection, e.g. signing up for e-mail alerts for jobs that match your profile
3. By providing functions that enable employers and agencies search for you, via your CV and personal profile
4. By providing you with expert help in defining your CV – this can be done online, using our special CV format
5. By enabling you to apply for jobs online
6. By putting you in touch with the UK 's leading advisors on Career Management

Where do I start?
Not many people like to admit they are scared, but it is an undeniable facet of work life that we fear job change. This is founded on a number of typical ‘negative' self beliefs that unfortunately haunt many of us, regardless of our position or role:

• If I move now, it may be from the frying pan to the frier!
• What if the grass isn't greener in the other side!
• I'm too old now to re-train for something new
• There's no such thing as a ‘job I love' and earning a good living too
• What if I fail to live up to expectations; what if I'm just not good enough
• Will my Pension be affected in a negative way?

There are many other such negative beliefs and usually they place career change in a much less than positive light. If we don't analyse these and other self beliefs, we may not have the confidence to move on.

It is important to identify:

• Your needs, wants and aspirations, against your skills, experience and talents
• Once identified, you need to work out how best to use them
• Next stage is identify how and which organisations might use your specific skills set

What tools can I use to help me achieve the above?

There are many management tools you can use, as an example:

• Self assessment or SWOT – identify your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats – be honest to yourself; do this on a regular basis. Don't be afraid to be critical, but be fair to yourself
• Create a personal development plan – set goals, objectives and identify training needs; where possible add date deadlines to ensure you do something about your situation ….. now
• Where you have identified training, see what is available free, e.g. Local Business Link or the Jobcentre Plus.

Remember that management of your career is largely in your hands. Do not leave this critical activity to someone else – only you know what you want and need. By taking control yourself, you will:

•  Obtain a better role for yourself

•  Feel more confident and positive about change

•  Become more comfortable about continuous self assessment

•  Achieve a much better career and lifestyle

•  Feel happier and enthusiastic about life in general

Business also benefits

Having established in your own mind what skills, experience and talents you have, you immediately raise your game and focus on positive self belief; this is highly infectious and whether you are looking for a new job or continue in your current organisation, the positive change in your attitude will help both you and the organisation that has the good fortune to employ you.